Radisson Blu Farnham Estate Hotel, Cavan

Awesome place for a spa day! My friend booked this place after our Istanbul holiday as a sort of treat! We drive up two hours from Dublin on a rainy afternoon. Checked in around 2pm, then hit the spa! Our treatments weren’t until 5 but we hit up the pool, saunas and other cool amenities.
The hotel is super nice, staff is super duper friendly! Our package includes a 30 minute spa treatment plus 3 course dinner for 150 euro, which was pretty good. My scrub/​massage was awesome, felt refreshed! Dinner was delicious!
Rooms were very nice and the buffet breakfast the next morning was bomb! If you get a chance, take a walk around the grounds. Overall a great little get a way spot to relax and get pampered!

This is a great place to retreat with your favorite (like a GF, BF or BFF). It is not for the weak wallet or untested, but it does provide you one hella sleep.
Be sure to bring your hiking boots or running shoes, so you can go cross-​estate on the tracks behind the golf course. It is well worth a few hours outside to check out the different routes and take in the scenery. If you are half decent with a camera you might as well take a few shoots to show off on Facebook and make all you friends jelly.
You can also pamper yourself or a group of friends in the mint-​steam spa resort. Complementary access comes with a stay, but any massage or fancy treatments will come out of your pocket at a price.
The restaurant offers your amazing food and whether your for beer, cocktails, mock-​tails or wine they will have something to suit your taste buds. It can get quite busy when there is no wedding in house, because other couples will spend their time here as well. So be sure to book in advance of your stay or your spouse might be cheated of an worthy experience.

Apparently the biggest country house estate in Ireland — certainly lives up to its name. It takes about 5 minutes to drive from the gate to the hotel!
Check in was very efficient and the room was lovely, looking out into the countryside and spa. We managed to sneak in an hour in the pool and steam rooms — the former included an indoor and outdoor heated infinity pool area looking out to the rolling hills of Cavan with a hint of cow poo in the air. Can’t get any more Irish than that!
Both the Botanica Restaurant and Wine Goose Cellar Bar were lovely, serving very good food and drink although prices are on the steep side.
All in all — a very pleasant stay :)

Brilliant hotel in relaxing countryside.
Can not wait to get an excuse to stay here again.
The only complaints I have are that the cellar bar is far too welcoming for you to leave at a reasonable hour, the beds are far too comfortable to let you get up respectably early, the breakfast way to good to risk missing and the pool is beyond too great to miss by having too big a breakfast.
Man, it is just one tough decision after another.
The food was exceptionally good. The main attraction for us was that unlike many restaurants the food was not pickled in salt to mask poor quality ingredients. Hence the flavour of the ingredients was evident and the health risk of high salt-​intake lessened. Nice one.
Do yourself a favour and try this one out.

Second time here. Four of us arrived for 2 nights. Our welcome was instant and friendly. The mini bus driver collected us from the car park, which is down from the main entrance to the hotel. There is limited parking at the front of the hotel. We had taken a picnic from home, but Ireland disappoints here with no picnic areas in evidence in the 90 or so miles we travelled to get here, so nothing else for it, we picnicked in the car park. The bemused mini bus driver kept driving past us as he drove other guests to/​fro and eventually it was our turn. We finished our picnic just in time to avoid a torrential downpour. Reception advised that one room was ready one wasn’t; it was about 3:30pm. No issue, we all went to the one room that was ready; they were side by side anyway. Complimentary chocolates and chocolate dipped strawberries arrived as a kind gift as the room wasn’t ready; being a chocoholic I can vouch for their quality, damn moreish too. The rooms are quite big with a decent size separate bathroom. The room had a small TV, hairdryer, iron, ironing board, a fan and a kettle for in — room tea/​coffee. The fan was needed as no air con and the room was very warm. The bed mega comfy. The ice — making machine was a few minutes walk from the room. Excellent breakfast choices as was overall quality, but coffee and tea were poor tasting. The service was sometimes slow with longish waits for tea/​coffee and they ran out of croissants. I felt it unusual to see soy sauce beside tomato juice, new one on me as I use only Worcestershire sauce, which was nowhere to be seen. The night time main restaurant meals (3 course 40 euro with tea & coffee 2 course 32 euro with tea & coffee). All the food served here was under-​seasoned, some like the salmon main was bland just not good enough but the fillet steak had good flavour (fillet was an extra charge). I also paid extra for scallops, I got 3 scallops just mean — portioned but the very few were tasty. So we went to the Oak Room restaurant in Cavan town for a tastier 3 course meal on our second night. We recognised a number of other hotel guests there too. It was a huge 30% cheaper. Back to the hotel: We ordered afternoon coffee for four, the coffee here was poor tasting too, again not good enough, no way and took far too long to come, and we were 5 minutes walk away from the bar. Picture this, a 4 star hotel serving poor tasting coffee, only one type of cookie available, no cake or other sweet selection on offer — it is a hotel with chefs, it has professional kitchens, it has raw materials aplenty, bound to have hot ovens on the go often so why can’t they muster cake?! Again next time, we went out for coffee. So they are driving away willing paying guests outside the hotel to eat and to find good coffee. The spa and pool area were perfect and great to relax in. A real nuisance — the Internet — it was not instant it was sporadic and as I had an Apple iPhone and iPad I needed the staff to set them up a few times over our stay and it took several minutes each time (I go to a 1 star hotel in Spain several times a year, its wifi is simple and instant and I never need help here) again not good enough. Finally the ramps on the driveway on the way in are brutal, even driving over them slowly they are brutal.

With fantastic midweek offers, it’s hard to resist going to Farnham Estate. The hotel is a large modern building attached to a refurbished old Manor type house. There is lots of land to roam around and explore including a huge golf course.
The rooms are spacious and have lovely bathrooms with a shower and a bath.
Free wifi in the rooms, a fridge, hairdryer etc and even robes and slippers!
There’s an indoor and outdoor pool with loungers with comfy pillows if you want to relax by the pool and read a book. There’s also steam rooms of various temperatures, foot spas and nice showers.
On a quiet day you can really lap up the peace and serenity, drink unlimited amounts of tea, coffee and juices and just relax.
I had a Swedish back and shoulder massage from the Beauty Salon. It was amazing! They even have a hair salon!
You really don’t need to leave the hotel over your stay as there are plenty of options to eat. The Botanic restaurant or the Cellar Bar (or room service) have got plenty of choice on their menus. It all comes from the same kitchen anyway.
I was so impressed with the buffet breakfast. So much to choose from! Probably the biggest buffet breakfast I have ever seen in a hotel. Fried, scrambled and boiled eggs to choose from!
The staff are very helpful and friendly too. I couldn’t have asked for more.
I really enjoyed my stays here (3 times in 2 years) I recommend it highly and I know I’ll go back again.