Citywest Hotel & Golf Resort

This review is only for the conferencing facilities.
I attend a lot of training events and conferences at different hotels in Ireland & I really like this place. This is in my top 3. The venue is a little dated, but in a good way if that makes any sense… nothing is shabby but it’s quite old fashioned in an elegant way. We wanted for nothing during our conference with a team on site to offer additional services such as printing & scanning as we required from time to time.
The thing that really won me over if I’m honest is their food. They truly have the best & freshest snacks of any conference centre I’ve ever been to (which says a lot considering my feelings about the cookies in the Hilton at Charlemont). Delicious fresh baked treats & lots of fruit too. Their lunch options were either pub grub or a sambo meaning everyone is happy (because inevitably which ever option you decide on for your group someone is always going to prefer sambos over a full meal or vice versa).
The only reason I’m not giving 5 stars is because of it’s location — it’s just so far out for anyone commuting from anywhere other than the M50 belt. However this is not something they can really do to improve their service so possibly a little unfair of me!

I have been in Citywest at a number of conferences this year. The food provided is the best I have had at any conference. The staff are always incredible and the rooms are always set up perfectly. I really think that everyone goes above and beyond to ensure the conference went off without a hitch.

The hotel looks beautiful when you walk in and that’s about it. There is duct tape on the rugs in the hallways, the air vent in our room was bent and broken. The beds were springy and uncomfortable and rooms looked out dated. The amenities they list would be great if we could ever use them. We tried to order room service 3 times and they never picked up. They didn’t have an airport shuttle which made it pricy to get there.

This place has a lot of history. It’s been a golf resort and hotel for a long time. It’s also rather creepy and seems like it should be in a scary movie. The hallways are dim and the place smells old as well. Not in a bad way but it smells OLD! This was a pre planned trip for us through an agency and this was the hotel they gave us for our Dublin leg of the trip. The room itself was nice and the hotel restaurant wasn’t too bad. I’m not much for golf however so a lot of the things they offer I simply wasn’t interested in. I felt under dressed to say the least. The experience itself was good. The hotel is down a long tree lined drive way of sorts and the grounds seemed massive. I just wish it wasn’t windy on top of rainy and cold so we could’ve explored more. To add to the creepiness and haunted feeling our hall way lights were all out and walking down the hall way it seemed like we were the only ones staying there.

Great price. Nicely decorated. Big bed. Very clean. Looks classy. Convention at the hotel, so everything was really busy /​congested.
Closet: Way too small — only hangars for shirts.
Wow…hard to believe I could get less bathroom counter space than the last hotel, but I guess I am storing my toiletries on the desk!
Got a whirl pool tub in my room — nice!
Hot water in shower fluctuated to luke warm/​cold frequently while in the shower.
The hotel housekeeping forgot to clean my room. At 9pm, once discovered, they offered to clean my room.
Pub is friendly. Lots of nice people.
Golf looks fun. Great looking course.
Walking the halls back to one’s room at night feels like ‘the shining’. The lights even click on and off as you move through segments on the hall. Great for power saving — great for creepy atmosphere.
Breakfast is good. Lots of options and the pastries are fresh.

Realmente no puedo valorar muy bien este hotel porque llegué casi a las tres de la mañana y alrededor de las ocho ya lo estaba dejando, pero creo que ha sido el hotel más grande y más complicado de andar en el que yo haya estado en toda mi vida.
Es un hotel ENORME y sin duda, por lo que vi, precioso, pero tiene millones de habitaciones a las que puedes llegar pasando por millones de pasillos. Mi habitación estaba al final del piso quinto y antes de coger el ascensor tuve que preguntar tres veces cómo se llegaba.
Sales de recepción, giras a la izquierda, giras a la derecha, vuelves a girar a la izquierda, andas todo el pasillo (que parece que te van a salir las gemelas del resplandor en cualquier momento), entonces giras a la izquierda, coges el ascensor, subes a tu piso y ahora buscas tu habitación. Vaya, aún me acuerdo, sorprendente.
Cuando me dijeron que el desayuno era encima de la recepción, decidí coger mi maleta y bajar ya directamente con ella porque me sentí incapaz de volver a hacer esa ruta dos veces más.
El hotel bonito, el desayuno correcto, hay además una zona diferenciada para celíacos con sus propios utensilios, tostador, etc.
Por las fotos que vi en el hotel, se celebran bodas, convenciones, concursos, etc. La verdad es que la ubicación y el tamaño lo permiten, pero yo, de forma particular, nunca me alojaría en este hotel. Necesito menos complicaciones para mis vacaciones.
Lo buenísimo es que el wifi estaba abierto y la calidad era excelente.

Great staff nice cold beer what more could you wants. The view of the 18^th green from the terrace while enjoying a cold beer is food for the soul

Great first impression but our room was dated. No AC, bag scale, fan or air circulation. Our room was unbearably hot after two showers and with such a small window and no ventilation we got no sleep. Travelers beware!

Stayed here for a little over a week. Booked a family room, which had 3 beds. The room itself was nice and big and the bathroom was clean. Now, I don’t know if this is common among most hotels in the UK but I was very surprised when I was told that our room didn’t have an AC. I didn’t think a «resort» would have rooms without air conditioning… What was also surprising about this «resort», was the TV in our room. The TV was ANCIENT. It had maybe 7 channels that got spotty service. The beds were average, nothing special. The breakfast really saved our stay, while we only got to enjoy it once, it was phenomenal. The hotel itself is within walking distance to the LUAS which is convenient but I wish there were more lights in the drive way. When walking back at night, it’s almost impossible to see in front of you halfway down their drive way, I wouldn’t feel safe walking back to the hotel alone late at night. Their gym is pretty impressive, but we didn’t make use of it during our stay because it closes very early– wish it was ²⁴⁄₇. Overall our stay was average.

I really liked this hotel, it seemed like I stepped back in time. Huge rooms, great food (coffee and scones in the lobby is fabulous before heading out for the day), and very helpful and nice staff. I would return here in a minute. The best part: You are within walking distance of the LUAS, light rail, that will take you anywhere in Dublin.

Overall a very nice hotel within walking distance to the LUAS train line. The front desk staff were very helpful. The room was clean, the linings fresh, and the bathroom very modern and clean. The only complaint I would have on the room was the cable was very spotty with limited channels 5 to 7 choices). Breakfast was average, but appreciated as it always got the day started right. Overall a very nice hotel I would sat at again.

This place is huge but there’s little to recommend about it other than its easy location for the airport.
Both rooms for our party offered a twin size and a queen size bed. Both queens were awful… totally whipped. The twins were fine. Basically that means that for a couple, the one with the worst back gets the twin and you can’t sleep together. Room otherwise was okay but the décor is tired. Overall, be it the art in the rooms or the halls, what is with all of the duplicate pictures? My room had two identical pictures side by side. At one stretch of hallway there were FOUR in a row! So strange.
Checked out the dining venues and they were… too big and too vacant. Fill the room with a ton of people for a class reunion and maybe you’d have something but popping into their «pub» for a bite to eat and you’d feel like the only person at a banquet hall.

Normally when I hand out a three it’s because a place is overall average — wouldn’t go out of my way to return but would go again sort of average. Citywest is different. This three is more like an average of fives and ones. Five because the amenities are great, the staff are very friendly, the buffet breakfast is well run and has something for everyone, and the pub pulls a nice Guinness. But One because the front desk never actually answers the phone, there is limited food available on site, they made my bed with a pillow still in it (who does that?) and there is no wifi in the room. Just a lot of frustrating little details (I could go on) that get to you if you stay more than a few days.
So I would return, but I wouldn’t go out of my way… sort of average.

I stayed here for the Food and Hospitality Ireland conference in September 2014.
I was surprised by how lovely this hotel was from the entrance — set in a huge golf course, it’s very «Kellermans» from Dirty Dancing. Shame there was no Johnny to teach us to dance.
Staff were friendly from the outset, especially the front desk and concierge. My hotel room was on the ground floor and whilst it was rather glam (see photos) it smelt quite strongly of smoke, which was a shame. Perhaps it used to be a smoking room. I guess retrospectively I should have asked to move rooms, so I can’t complain too much on that front. Besides the smoke issue, the bathrooms here are fantastic — great showers, jacuzzi baths, old school high cistern loos. The bed was huge and comfortable, and overall it was a good stay.
One thing that drives me bananas about this hotel is the lack of wifi. There is no wifi in the bedrooms (but it’s a conference hotel?!, HELLO, business people??!). There is a wired connection, but since I have a mac computer, I couldn’t use the plug without the correct adaptor (which I didn’t have with me).
Get the wifi sorted, febreeze the rooms, and you’re onto a winner, Citywest, because I actually like this hotel.

I did not stay here nor did I play golf here but due to working the weekend I have got to experience the lobby and the bar areas!
Firstly there is loads of parking. The landscaping is very well kept which shows that they have a pride in their appearance.
For me it was a great experience because there is free wi-​fi, and fast wi-​fi which all

City west is a huge new neighbourhood built up in Tallaght, although they call it Saggert! It is a sprawling town of matching houses and apartments and in its centre is the City West Hotel.
Now I have been here many times for dinner, lunch, a 50^th & 60^th Birthday and only last week for a wedding.
The lunch was great, the food fantastic, the buffet full and hearty and appetising. The price alright, but I wasn’t paying so didn’t care much. The dinner was in the same place and was pretty much the same food as the lunch only this time you ordered it off a menu not a buffet. The food is really tasty and the food for the birthday parties and the wedding in particular, which was organised and cooked by the hotel is really good.
However, my problem is with the hotel itself. It just feels cheap and seedy. It is always full of shady looking characters and I am sure there are more than just business deals going down in the bar and lounges.
The rooms themselves are nothing special or worth writing about. Very standard and basic but they put up with lots of people coming back to the rooms and partying so it is good for groups!