Revealed: Our soulless hotels and unimaginative menus

THERE are too many hotels that are just big buildings with lots of bedrooms, Ireland’s leading food and accommodation critic claimed yesterday.

John McKenna, who yesterday launched the 2008 Bridgestone guide that rates Ireland’s 100 best places to stay described the new large hotels as “soulless”.

He stayed in a new large hotel in south Co Dublin recently and said he found it lacked the kind of hospitality that he was used to in smaller establishments.