Good enough for a queen is fine by me

Susan O’Shea sets up base camp at Muckross Park Hotel and comes away as liberated as a former guest, The Liberator.

Choosing a hotel for a weekend stay in Killarney can be harder than picking a rose in Tralee. As Ireland’s official tourist mecca, and boasting more hotels per sq mile than anywhere else in the country, everything is on offer for the weekend visitor, from the most basic B&B — where ensuite is still touted as a selling point — to unadulterated luxury.

Always a girl fond of a bit of luxury, I chose the latter, and selected the five-star Muckross Park Hotel as ‘base camp’ from which to explore Killarney’s famed National Park.