We went to this hotel's restaurant for a "gala" new year's eve dinner. This was based on promotional information on the hotel's website. The website is actually very high quality, sadly that is where the quality of this story ends.

On arrival we sensed something was wrong as there seemed two separate dinner's. One upstair's and a buffet down stairs in the cellar. We were booked for the later and were greeted by an empty cellar room with approx 50 covers.

We were told to be there at 7.30 pm prompt as that is when the programme started but we were first there and then couple by couple came down and looked equally confused as if they were also having an out of body experience or "were in the wrong sketch".

The live music was an 1990's cd player which only seemed to have one cd. There are only so any time's a person should listening to "its raining men" ! and that does not need to be be all on the same evening unless you are in guantamo bay. In fact on reflection that might have not been so bad.

The buffet while ok was not worth the €95 we paid per person. Plus with drinks on top we spent approx €280 for 90 mins of hell. We were told that live music would start at 9pm. When we did find the band we also found the real gala dinner where a band was playing on the first floor. At midnight the hotel was going to open its roof terrace to allow the guest to watch the fireworks bring in 2012. We could not last another 5 minutes and retreated out as quietly as possible.

I think the reality is that this hotel over sold its gala dinner and tried to squeeze a few more bookings out by also using the cellar area, however the difference in quality was very transparent. Management must have known this because everyone in the cellar had cleared out by 9pm.

I dont know what the hotel itself is like but if it is as varied as the gala dinner I would suggest you think twice unless you are a keen fan of the weather girls and "its raining men" but you could save yourself a couple of hundred euros and buy it on itunes!