Log Cabin Lodge and Suites Donegal

My extended family booked various rooms and cabins here for a few days. They have a friendly staff who are willing to help as much as they can and you get plenty of room for the price.
First off the outside door of my cabin was not secure. It locked but still had about an inch and a half of play in it. It would be very easy to kick open and did not make me feel safe at all. The room was pretty dirty as well as the linen. Most of the walls, ceiling, and floor tile are cracking, and the shower head moves freely in the wall. All three bed in my cabin were either marshmallow soft or rock hard. I’m not even sure what they were made of bc there were no springs and it certainly wasn’t memory foam. Some of my family’s rooms had no air conditioning and we’re also dirty.
My uncle stayed in their biggest cabin which includes a hot tub. No way anyone was getting in that thing. The floor is bowing around it and there is broken sharp tile surrounding it. Great for kids in bare feet.
Breakfast includes frozen waffles, frozen french toast, frozen Danish, and milk and yogurt that’s in a sink of ice cubes. So dry cereal is your only option.
If this place was taken care of it would probably be gorgeous.

The room was very very clean! This being said, despite specifically requesting a non smoking room, we were given a smoking room and they had overbooked so we had to suck it up. Definitely the worst part of our stay, since we have some sensitive nosed companions that are very vocal.
The girl who checked us in was nice! She was very honest and recommended a better breakfast spot than the breakfast they offered. We ended up going to theirs for lack of time, and were pleasantly surprised. It was a fair selection of fair quality. The plastic tables and weird little room would have suggested a worse breakfast, I think. Deserved her evaluation of «well, it’s ok».
The beds weren’t very comfortable but the room did its job as providing a place to stay during a pit stop. The décor was amusing and absolutely fine– very true to the log cabin theme (well– other than the lion bedspread).
But honestly, just lower your expectations and be prepared to get exactly what you paid for!
Also, there’s a cool mini zoo we unfortunately didn’t get to go to because we arrived at 8pm and left at 8am. They have fair hours though.

We booked this hotel a few days ahead and were assigned room 210, which was a room with two double beds and a fireplace. All I can say on the décor is «wow» and I’m still not sure whether it’s a good wow or bad. They certainly took their vision of rustic way too far. The chandelier looks like an upside down birds nest, is enormous and I swear, if it had fallen, would have impaled anyone unlucky enough to be below it. The headboards on the beds were also made of branches, and seriously, if you’re in this room, watch your heads. The branches, knotholes, etc poked out all over the place. Ditto the dresser. Walking through the room in the dark is certainly a challenge. If I were ever in the area again and booked this hotel, I would definitely request another room. I understand the rest of the rooms are far more normal.
The negatives: carpet old and certainly could use a good cleaning; the bathroom door latch was broken and wouldn’t stay closed (they did fix this relatively promptly, though); the locks on the front door were wonky, they took a bit of jiggling to get everything to line up so you could lock or unlock the door; and the fireplace took forever and a day to light (it’s a gas fireplace) and the pilot light just didn’t want to work. Check in was slow and while the woman who checked us in wasn’t exactly rude, she wasn’t exactly the most pleasant person on earth, either. The other staff we came into contact with, however, were pleasant and polite.
The positives: it was clean, relatively comfortable (especially for only one night) and had ample parking. Also, it is attached to a small zoo, which was much nicer and more well-​kept than I expected. The bears are awesome :)
While I wouldn’t rule this out as a place to stay, I would definitely look for something else. It was a little pricey for the quality of the accomodations and honestly, that room we had scared me lol