Rooms were clean and comfortable. Enjoyed having the dinning room and living room spaces to talk and write and read. Wonderful location. Amazing garden. Fine for an overnight stay.

The place looked great on the internet. Upon arrival, we were pleased to see a lovely cottage with a wonderful view. As advertised, the gardens around the house were spectacular. We were greeted by a friendly couple. The woman of the house showed us the dining room and sitting room, both of which were nice. Then she showed us to our room. This is the point at which both our hearts dropped with resounding thuds to the floor. The bathroom was so tiny one of us could hardly move in it (and we are thin)! It was shabby and leaky looking. There was a soggy used towel in the sink and another really old, thread bare towel on a chair. Everything about the room was shabby, dark and depressing. Our view was through a large, dirty window of what looked like a bleak utility yard with a shack in the corner. This is apparently where the owners stayed when guests were in the house. The whole thing was just mind numbingly depressing and we felt trapped as we'd booked for three nights.
We wouldn't normally back out of an agreement but since we hadn't yet given them a credit card number, we felt that what we had seen on the internet didn't accurately depict the reality of the dreariness of this room. We felt within our rights to walk away from it. No one else was there so I peeked in the other rooms. They were all just as awful.

After finding another, really wonderful place nearby to move to, we regretfully told the owner we were leaving.

We had a most enjoyable stay at the Crab Tree Cottage in Muckross. We were a family of eight and were put in the Stag's Glen self-catering house behind the Crab Tree Cottage. We didn't know this would be the case until we arrived. It was beyond our expectations. The views were lovely, the accommodation was new, clean, comfortable and tastefully decorated. The bathrooms in each room were large and spotless. Our hostess included breakfast with our stay each day as we originally were booked into the bed and breakfast. We were treated very cordially and the hostess was most helpful with information we needed. We did have to pay in cash (euros) instead of credit card which was a little difficult but we would highly recommend this accommodation to anyone who is looking for a lovely holiday place to stay in Killarney.
Katherine Hinds
Cambridge, UK

Where to begin... first of all the grounds were beautiful, and the location was really terrific in terms of hiking, Muckross House, etc. But the stay itself left much to be desired.

The room was small and bright but down a very dark corridor. The bathroom was terrible. The shower was ridiculously tiny, and though being quite small ourselves, we wound up with our noses about 2 inches aways from the walls - which were spotted all over with mold. The shower head was clogged in parts, the drain was clogged (which left us standing in 3 inches of water), and the soap dish - which was the only place to rest anything in there, was broken. There were also cobwebs in the bedroom - AND one of the beds was extremely lopsided - which made for an unpleasant night's sleep.

Breakfast was fine, but nothing spectacular.