Academy Hotel

A perfectly adequate hotel in a great central location, lovely comfy beds and sparkling clean bathrooms with a super hot powerful shower, so the accommodation is fine if a little on the smallish side for our room.
Breakfast was ok, typically full fry up with the rubbery eggs and congealed beans of mass catering and a continental selection, but the coffee was really nice and I found the bacon to be super tasty and thick rashers too.
We enjoyed drinks in the bar on our first night, we enjoyed breakfast, we loved the value, € 9.95 for the full breakfast selection, my only grumble is, and it will not affect everyone, I sleep with the window open, no matter how cold it is and the extractors for the kitchens are outside our bedroom, really noisy and actually quite smelly, but as the smell was sausage and bacon I didn’t mind that waking me, and I rolled over and went back to sleep once I figured the «jet engines» outside was just the kitchen extractors. This will not bother anyone who sleeps with their window closed and I doubt the Main Street out the front would be any quieter anyway, it’s City centre .
Great staff, clean beds, hot showers, draft Guinness, if you want a city break in Dublin then you could go a lot worse than sleep here.

Recently stayed here and had a very good experience. Friendly greeting at reception. Staff were pleasant and accommodating. Our first room we were given had a really poor Wifi connection, so the hotel manager pleasantly reassigned us to a different room and never had that problem for the remainder of our stay.
Rooms are a little on the small side with little to no space for luggage storage, which made navigating the room a bit of a rigmarole. However, our room was spotless and came with plenty of extra towels. Bathroom was very clean. Complimentary teas and coffee also were in both rooms we had.
I think the best part about this hotel is its location. Situated on Upper O’Connell Street, this hotel was a 5 minute walk to a lot of major shopping spots, cafes, etc., and about a10 minute walk to Temple Bar if that.
The hotel’s bar stayed open a late, so it was nice to be able to come back and have a night cap before bed. Also, there is a not so bad sports bar directly next door to the hotel if you wanted to catch a game and a have drink.
Would definitely stay here again. Highly recommend.

We stayed 2 nights at the academy hotel during the final stages fo the recent refurbishment. The standard of the hotel in term of facilities and décor are very good.
The rooms were of a decent size, very modern with a large comfortable bed, bathrooms again were new and very modern.
We ate in the restaurant which was nice if a little expensive and without any real atmosphere.
One tip for anyone visitng and needs to get the bus from Dublin airport, instead of the Airlink bus the 16a also goes from the airport to O’Connell street (very near the hotel) and is only 1,90 instead of 8 euro per person, although if you have loads of luggage, stick to the Airlink coach.