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BURLINGTON hotel has formally changed its name to DoubleTree by Hilton Dublin - Burlington Road and is scheduled to open in the spring following renovation work. Doubletree is introducing a dedicated floor featuring 18 conference suites and meeting rooms, each capable of holding 100 delegates. The Morrison, another DoubleTree by Hilton hotel has already opened on Ormond Quay. DOYLE Collection hotel group recorded
a total profit of €65.48m for the year 2012. This arose from a surplus on revaluation of the group’s hotels of €80.2m. Revenues jumped by 13.5pc to €126.5m. Doyle Collection operates the Westbury and Croke Park hotels in Dublin and the River Lee Hotel in Cork along with four hotels in the UK and the Dupont Circle hotel in Washington DC.The group disposed The Back Bay Hotel in Boston, The Courtyard by Marriott and the Normandy Hotel in Washington DC.
TWO new hotel brands have launched,
Clermonts and NYLOs.
BREAFFY House Resort in Castlebar, Co Mayo is for sale with a guide price of €2.9m. Dublin's Hilton Hotel went on sale with a guide price of €22m. Two hotels are up for sale in Limerick CBRE quoting €3m for the three-star, 151-bedroom Jurys Inn, DTZ Sherry FitzGerald quoting €4m for the 154bedroom Radisson Blu Hotel on the LimerickShannon Road. KILLARNEY Hotels Ltd which oper-
ates the five-star The Europe Hotel & Resort and the five-star, 102-bedroom Dunloe Castle Hotel, along with the four-star Hotel Ard na Sidhe recorded pre-tax losses of €36.97m after writing down its property by €28m.
RESTAURANT Patrick Guilbaud at The Merrion Hotel was ranked 33rd in the world in the list of top 100 hotel restaurants compiled by food website the Daily Meal, José Andrés at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas was top. MICHELIN STAR Hotels.com say
searches for Kilkenny hotels are up 436pc in Ireland and 410pc in England after two restaurants in the county won Michelin star status. The Michelin Star restaurant list for 2013 included two newcomers. Garrett Byrne’s Campagne in Kilkenny and Ken Harker’s Lady Helen in Mount Juliet are additions to Ireland’s now nine Michelin Star restaurants: Aniar House in Galway (where Ultan Cooke replaced Enda McEvoy this year), Oliver Dunne’s Bon Appétit in Malahide, Adriaan Bartels and Martijn Kajuiter’s Cliff House in Ardmore and four in Dublin Patrick Guilbaud (2 stars), Ross Lewis and Martin Corbett’s Chapter One, SallyAnn and Derry Clarke’s L’Ecrivain and Kevin Thornton’s. Another 11 restaurants in Ireland appear in its Bib Gourmands section: Deasy’s in Co Cork; Sha Roe Bistro in Co Carlow; Chart House, Co Kerry; Courthouse, Co Monaghan; Aldridge Lodge, Co Wexford; Fishy Fishy Cafe, Co Cork, the Wild Honey Inn in Lisdoonvarna, and four in Dublin: Pig’s Ear, Pichet, Downstairs and Brasserie at Bon Appétit.
Venice tops the hotel price list for October
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Hotel prices drop in ‘month of the citybreak’
ctober is renowned for the city break. After increasing in September, European hotel prices have fallen by an average of 5pc. Based on the 50 most popular European destinations on trivago, one night in October will cost an average of €122, compared to €129 in September. Venice, Europe’s most expensive city this month, will cost double that,
Venice
€252 Geneva
€231 Paris
€214 Munich
€212 London
€208 Amsterdam
€200 Paris
€198 Milan
€186 Stockholm
€181
€252.
The most significant decreases can be found in Nice (down an average of 25pc to €111 per night), Amsterdam (down 20pc to €161 per night) and Milan (down 18pc to €152 per night). After increasing dramatically for Oktoberfest, hotel prices have fallen by an average of 18pc in Munich to €174 per night. Irish hotel prices have also dropped by an average of 5pc, from €103 per night in September to €98 in Octo-
ber. Greek destinations present the best value for money for October sun. One night on the North Aegean Islands will cost an average of just €53 and one night on Crete will cost an average of €70. Following these are Portugal’s Algarve at an average of €75 per night and Spain’s Andalusia at €79 per night. The best value found in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia (average of €66.
EUROPEAN HOTEL PRICE INDEX €175 €148 €116 €101 €94 Florence Munich
€174 Oslo Stockholm
€171 Oslo
€166 Florence
€164 Amsterdam
€161 Milan Cologne
€152
Copenhagen
€149
Barcelona Frankfurt
€145
Edinburgh
€134 Cannes
€133 Istanbul Vienna
€129 Brussels
€128 Manchester
€123 Hamburg
€119
Lyon
Donegal
€113 Marseilles
€112 Nice
€111 Brighton Dublin Prague
€108
Turin
€106 Belfast Killarney
€103 Galway
€102
Lisbon
Glagow
€99
Cork Kilkenny
€99
Liverpool
€98
Kilkenny
€97 Cork
€96 Bilbao Msdrid
€95
Sligo Toulouse Tralee
Limerick
€92 Sligo
€91
Derry Leipzig Sevilla
€89
Tralee
€88 Sligo
€83 Budapest
€81
Malaga
€80
Garnada
€77
Warsaw
€76
Bucharest
€75
Valencia
€75 Riga
€72
Zaragosa
€68 Sofia
€66
Source: Trivago.oe