Leeson Inn Downtown - Dublin, Ireland 

Great stay in dublin
Posted: Tue, Jul 22 2008
I stayed in The Leeson Inn last weekend.. The Hotel is in a great location close to all the main attractions of Dublin. The hotel staff were very nice and the reception adviced us on places to visit and were happy to answer any questions, which made our stay very enjoyable. The room was lovely very clean and well decorated. The breakfast was great. Overall very good value for money.

Great Spot
Posted: Sat, Jul 19 2008
Super Hotel. The best place to stay in cental Dublin for a fun time. Only a stroll to all the important place to visit in Dublin. We found the best places were the Chester Beatty library, the National Muesum in Kildare Street and Newman House. The staff are very helpful and know every where to visit. The best theatres and restaurants are all only minutes away.

This hotel is a joke.
Posted: Tue, Jul 08 2008
I stayed at the Leeson Inn Downtown last night and i have to say i never felt so duped by a website. The pictures show nice looking spacious rooms however this is not the case. My girlfriend arrived before me and was told there was no reservation at all. Only after I called them again to confirm did they give her a room. I'm also certain the girl I talked to the second time was the one who took the booking in the first place. Anyway she (my girlfriend) called me back to say the room was tiny, the heating wasn't working and the window wouldn't close properly so she had asked to just cancel the booking all together but was told no even though what we got clearly was not what was advertised. Instead she was moved to another room (204, 4 flights of stairs, the only one i personally was in) where again no heating, window wouldn't close properly and the shower had a serious mildew issue brewing. The extractor fan in the toilet didn't work and periodically made a loud buzzing sound when switched on. There was only about a 2 feet of room at the sides of the bed and 3 feet at the foot, no bedside lockers and the hotel information booklet was hidden on top of the smallest wardrobe i've ever seen. The car parking facilities advertised consist of a small yard at the back with room for only 2 cars to park without blocking someone else in. The security on this carpark are 2 sheets of plywood with a small padlock on them. Also no ironing board was available contrary to website although I don't think there would have been room to set it up anyway. We had to iron our stuff on the floor. When we returned to the hotel that night we found someone asleep in the corridor outside our room. We had to step over him to gain access to our room. It was a wet night and at about 4.30 in the morning water started leaking through the ceiling and we were woken up to the sound of the dripping. Now I don't know what your opinion of this would be but i was dumbfounded. When I looked at it in the morning the ceiling was stained which led me to believe that we weren't the first poor unfortunates to experience this. We didn't bother reporting any of this at the time as the general impression we got from the receptionist was she just didn't care. When we went to check out in the morning I got the feeling she was not one bit surprised to hear our grievances and her replies seemed a little to rehearsed to be genuine. So to sum up this place would be a particularly bad doss house and doesn't deserve to listed as an inn, hotel or whatever they want to call it. Don't stay there. S O Donnell 06/07/2008