Ireland
I just spent a week back in my old town Cork. Stayed here and could not believe the value. Got a room for just €69 a night. For a 4-star hotel with a leisure centre and good location I was more than pleased. Will be back.
This wonderful restaurant and hotel is a big old house where they source the food locally with fish from Ballycotton, superb beef from Cloyne, vegetables from their own gardens and cheese from local indepedent cheesemakers. If you have the time do visit Ballymaloe Cookery School. Their cookbook is well worth buying.
Ballymaloe House and Ballymaloe Cookery School, Shanagarry, Midleton, Co Cork.
Tel: +353 (0) 21 464 6785.
www.ballymaloe.ie
Ballymaloe is about 20 miles east of Cork.
A most elegant establishment that modestly called itself a guesthouse, but worthy of a much greater status where the breakfasts are of gargantuan proportions.
Market Lane
Tel: 353 21 427 5111
www.garnish.ie
Home of the festival club during the Jazz Festival.
McCurtain St
Tel: 353 21 450 8122
www.gresham-hotels.com
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