Camden Court Hotel - Dublin , Ireland 

We stayed in the hotel for one night with our 8 month old baby and thought it was excellent. We arrived early saturday morning and parking was no problem. Staff at reception were very welcoming and friendly and arranged an earlier check in for us - 12 rather than 2pm. Rooms were perhaps on the small side but they were very clean and well maintained. The leisure centre was brilliant for a city centre hotel and the swimming pool was well heated with a toddler/baby area sectioned of from the main pool. Staff were very accommodating to all our requests e.g heating baby food. Location was great - a short walk to grafton street/st stephens green. We will definitely return to this hotel next time we are in Dublin.

Hmm, not bad, needs some improvement though. Arrived to find hotel car park packed, was lucky to come across someone leaving just as I was about to give up, definitely didn't relish the idea of trying to find alternative parking in that area of Dublin. Friendly and helpful staff at check-in. Decent sized, well kitted out and clean room overlooking courtyard. Room was reasonably quiet . (Our friends had a room overlooking the street, this room was very noisy in comparison to ours). Some building work still ongoing in the lobby at night, didn't really effect us. Went out for a meal, arrived back in pleasant hotel bar, had one drink, was ignored for 15 minutes at understaffed bar while looking for second drink and decided to go to bed instead. Left a number of disgruntled but more determined people still waiting to be served. Discovered on going to bed that my side of the bed had a large slump in it, like a huge man had sat on the edge of the bed and broken it. Made the best of it (slept ok) and reported it to reception on check-out but felt that housekeeping should have spotted the problem before I reported it. The breakfast buffet was a bit of a shambles with a log jam at the toaster/juice machine leading to lengthy queues which got progressively worse as the late breakfasters arrived en-masse for the last half hour of breakfast service. I had up to then breakfasted leisurely and reasonably well on fruit, yogurt and cereal and decided that the queue was too long for me to bother going for bacon and eggs. But I was annoyed at the poor organisation which forced me to make the choice. Overall impression was great location, pleasant building, friendly staff but needs better management to give real value for money.