We stayed here for the October Bank Holiday and had a great weekend. Although the hotel could do with a bit of refurbishment it was warm and had a lovely coal fire lighting in the foyer each day. The evening meals were first class and there was a great choice on the menu. Breakfast was lovely and the staff most helpful. Our room was really warm with lots of hot water for showers. The function room was lovely with a maple floor for dancing, which we did each evening. Entertainment was terrific but there does seem to be a problem with the toilets attached to the hall as the floor was flooded each evening in the ladies. When the planned refurbishment is complete it will be a very nice hotel but I hope it doesn't loose its lovely atmosphere.

Stayed in The Connemara gateway on the 11th September as were attending the Mike Denver Dance that night, the hotel is extemely old fashioned and Dirty looking, the Receptionist didnt even bother informing us breakfast times upon check-in. The rooms are very basic and old fashioned in order to get a socket to charge the mobile phone you need to plug out he TV. The food in the bar was pretty ok we eat there on the saturday evening. For anyone interested in Dancing i would not recommend this venue at all, the function room is the leisure centre converted to faciltate dancing it has a bad layout and a terrible quality floor, even if you a resident in the hotel you still need to go outside to get into the function room. The Toilet floor were swimming in water and were quiet slippy. I have attend these Bands in a number of venues and have to say this was the worst to date. The Breakfast the following morning was a complete disgrace the was no choice available and it was self service there was no Mushrooms the scrambled eggs was dried out and stuck to the dish the beans were glued to the spoon from sitting under a red lamp from proberly 7 that morning, the sausages were dried and hard it was totally unacceptable, the only thing i would eat was the toast. A number of other residents were complaing about the terrible breakfast on sunday morning. when we complained upon checking out where we told to email the hotel upon doing that i got a very unplesant email back . All in all i would say stay clear you have been warned.

Up at 4am, flew into Dublin, drove to west coast, after long day needed somewhere to stay. oh my god, wish we had continued driving!! ... Old, smelly, looks like a carehome, rooms SO SO tired and run down, condensation between double glazing, bathroom suite was shabby, rubbish receptionon on TV (if you could see the TV as it was so small). Went to bar to eat, asked what sandwiches they did and was told I could have anything i liked, unfortunately they didn't know what an avocado was, when I asked for Tuna they didn't have any and when I asked for Cheese and Pickle they ... guess what? ... didn't have any!! ... asked for cheese and ham WITHOUT tomato which duly arrived WITH tomato and then had the chicken wings (which they did have) but they also came with feathers attached, woke up in morning to no hot water in hotel (was offered a bowl of hot water (how nice) and ended up using the kettle in our room!. Decided to try the breakfast, mmmmm ....... coffee was stewed, eggs had dried out under the hot plate lights, chef was wearing a baseball cap and dirty whites and the receptionist looked like she was about to ride a horse given the boots she was wearing, To finish of our wonderful 1 night stay my girlfriend was asked by another guest if they served porridge. Cearly no one knows who actually works in the hotel!! ..... They also appear to have lost some of their flags as there are 3 flagpoles with only the stars and stripes of America flying!! ...... well at least we managed to negoatiate the price down by 50%!!

30 of us stayed here on our fishing trip to the west. The fishing was great and the location was excellent. We also did a tour of connemara and the location was perfect for this.

The hotel itself was a little dated but the friendliness and the old world character of the place more than made up for it. I guess it adds to the charm of the place.

The food was excellent and the rooms were clean. The staff were friendly and it was good value for money compared to the rest of galway.

Overall a great stay