O’Callaghan Stephen’s Green Hotel

Good location, but that’s it. Staff is helpful but very unfriendly, almost rude. Food and drinks at the restaurant are expensive, way too expensive for the quality. Rooms are OK, unless yours is facing the Harcourt street, not very noise-​proof, you most certainly will be awaken by traffic early in the morning.
If it was 30% less expensive, I’d probably say it’s OK, but for the same money you can stay in a much better hotel.

We stayed here for a week and were utterly underwhelmed. The hotel itself is rather lackluster. The food in the café was poor and overpriced. The desk staff seemed preoccupied and a tad surly. When we attempted to use the computer to print boarding passes we were told we would need to pay to use the internet which we found completely absurd. Needless to say, that didn’t happen and the front desk printed our boading passes for us. In summary, sleeping in a pup tent alongside the riff raff in Stephen’s Green would have been more enjoyable.

Here is the thing. When you stay in a hotel, what do you look for? Do you look for location, amenities, service, cleanliness?
If your standards aren’t very high, are on a budget, and want a great location, stay in this hotel.
Here are the pros: relatively clean, friendly professional service, downstairs bar, adequate gym, right next to SG Park, wifi (which more or less works).
Cons: Small rooms, barely edible free breakfast (complete with greasy bacon and powered eggs), staff while lovely aren’t well versed in a lot of the newer bars and restaurants.
Save your money in Dublin, and splurge at the Hayfield Manor in Cork, The Adare Manor (Adare), the Dunraven Arms Hotel (Adare), or the Dunloe (Killarney).
Enjoy Ireland!

The service here has always been very helpful. I even asked them, as a previous guest from several months earlier, if they’d hold my bags for a day while I was in town on a day trip: they cheerfully agreed.
The hotel itself isn’t a monument to beauty, but it’s an above-​average hotel with very clean, good-​sized rooms, well-​laid-​out bathrooms, good daily service, and a FANTASTIC location. I stay here every time I go to Dublin and would recommend it to anyone I know (except for my millionaire friends who want to spend three times the money for a more pretentious 5-​star hotel just across the Green).

This hotel is well situated for Dublin city centre right next to St Stephens green and the Luas stop is 2 minutes away.
Make sure you ask for a room in
The new wing and these are spacious and well designed.
The bed was huge and I had 2 great nights sleep here.
Food was a little disappointing but very well priced.
One of the better city centre hotels to stat in Dublin.

O’Callaghan Stephen’s Green Hotel is tucked away on a quiet side street next to Stephen’s Green. The rooms are relatively modern with decent mattresses (they haven’t been slept on one million times… yet) and neutral décor. The rooms have electrical sockets for European and American plugs, so, if you forgot a converter, you’ll be okay during your stay.
My room overlooked the street in front of the hotel and it was generally quiet. However, on the weekends, it was pretty humorous (but more annoying as the night went on) to listen to all the drunks on the street below, singing and yelling while stumbling home. If you’re not into this, and you won’t be by 3:00 a.m., I’d suggest bringing ear plugs or asking for a room in a quieter section of the hotel. Otherwise, the rooms are quiet; I didn’t hear a peep from any of my neighbors.
A couple of complaints though. The air system was generally useless. There was a wall unit to control temperature but it never worked for us during the stay. Also, even though Orbitz advertised that the hotel price included a complimentary breakfast, it didn’t. This isn’t necessarily O’Callaghan’s fault but it would be a plus to include it in the price for all guests.
So, to sum it all up, price is decent, location is great, but room is unmemorable. Stephen’s Green, however, is beautiful, so, just spend your time there instead of in the room.

We chose this hotel for it’s location and reasonable price, but ended up being very happy with it overall. While clearly an older hotel, it’s very well maintained and still has an air of class and elegance. Our room was small (typical for Europe) but well appointed and quite clean. The staff was polite and helpful.
The location is great, close to bus & train transport, and there always seemed to be at least one taxi waiting out front. It’s also within easy walking distance of many Dublin attractions, including Trinity College and Temple Bar.
One minor letdown was the business center… a small room at the end of the hall with a single antiquated computer and printer. We attempted to use the computer to check email, but got all kinds of virus popups and warnings. No way we were trusting our passwords (let alone CC numbers!) to that thing.
We quite enjoyed our stay, and wouldn’t hesitate to recommend The O’Callaghan to others.

This review is for the bar and restaurant, I haven’t stayed at the hotel. This place is nicely situated close to Stephen’s Green and is a good meeting point since it’s just far enough away from the crowds of Grafton St. The lunch is decent and I enjoyed my soup and sandwiches. It was easy get a seat at lunchtime on a Tuesday.
I had to pay € 3 for two hours of WiFi access. I really wish they would just make WiFI free since it’d entice more people to come and spend more money on coffee if they could easily work from here.
I started off giving this place three stars but decided to reduce it to two since we were sitting there for an hour and no one came by to check if we needed anything. Shoddy service in the end, which was a shame.

I was not one bit impressed with this spot at all. For a start the front desk worker was exceptionally rude when I asked where the toilets where she just barked directions at me which took me back a little to be honest.
Secondly the lunch service was woeful borderline rude in my opinion. The only reason why it does not get one star is that there was one female member of floor staff who did her best and was pleasant but she alone could not make up for the aloof rude service in general which made me have to leave my table twice to hunt them down which got no apologies by the way.
The food is regular pub food, nothing to write home about but it’s OK bit over-​priced in my opinion for what you get. As I was there for business it was rather embarassing that after an hour of talking to my guest no one at all came to ask us if we wanted a drink etc — an hour people.
What says it all to me is that when my guest joined me I asked him,
«Would you like a coffee?»
«Yeah I would but I will wait till they come and ask… The service here is very bad.»
Bad? Tragic. An empty enough area as well. At the end I could feel the servers hostility that I did not tip — are you kidding me?! Never ever again will I darken this place with my shadow it was embarrassing… And don’t get me started on the wi-​fi charge.

I have a fondness for this hotel! I stayed here 3 times in total I think, mostly for exams. I still think of it as kind of a good luck hotel-​each time I stayed here I passed them!
It’s not the fanciest hotel in the world and the last time I stayed they still had blankets on the beds and hadn’t decided to replace all the televisions with plasma screens as in many places. (I believe they have now). It had begun to look a bit faded. It is, however, more than adequately comfortable and very clean.
Downside would be internet you have to pay for. In this day. Yikes!
Why the 4 star rating? Location is very good-​on the corner of Harcourt Street and Stephen’s Green. It has the party potential of Harcourt Street without the noise factor. If you shop around you can get very good rates-​including things like a junior suite for the price of a regular room. Staff are lovely and very accommodating-​ask for a quiet room and you get it. One guy even asked me how my exam had gone when I walked back into the hotel!
So, it will always be remembered by me as the place I stayed in when I passed my exams… and where they were always pleasant and made me feel welcome!

Stayed here for a few days with the missus while we were in Dublin. (nudge, nudge, wink, wink)
Very nice location — far enough away from places that it was quiet, close enough that you didn’t feel too far away from everything.
Didn’t try the ‘award winning’ restaurant as such, but did order some food through room service. It was really good the first night (I think I had the burger) but not so good the second night (fish).
Tghe room was pretty much what you’d expect from a hotel — although the bed was quite big, very comfortable and very quiet.
Would I go back here? Definitely.
Would I recommend it? Of course.