Hotel review: With rooms as low as €67, here's what it's like to stay in Cork's new Premier Inn

A fresh new business and leisure arrival in Cork city offers outstanding value

Its facade may be clinical but the Premier Inn pops out the colour as soon as you enter the property

Location

It’s the three-star hotel with the five-star location. Cork’s newest hotel — and the first property in Munster by the UK chain — The Premier Inn stands in Morrison’s Island, one of the city’s most central yet scenic blocks, set on the south channel of the River Lee. Beyond its banks, you’re only 400m from all the main action on Pana or 650m from the English Market too. The hotel’s structure is a little unorthodox, and deceptively large. Only the hotel’s entrance and an opposing wing, which bookend a terrace of existing office buildings, are actually visible from the quayside. But beyond them, the property U-shapes around the block hosting a substantial 187 guest rooms in all. Note that the hotel does not offer on-site parking (24hr rates at Q-Park cost €12) though there were plenty of free spots outside the hotel midweek.