Confidence in hotels is rooms for improvement

EVIDENCE of the recovery and confidence in the Munster hotel sector is seen by the combined €3.5 million spent in just two hotel refurbishment projects alone, at the waterfront Trident Hotel in Kinsale harbour, and at the Clayton Hotel on Cork city’s quays.

Designer Daphne Daunt has worked on the four-star, 75-bed Trident Hotel’s €1.5m upgrade, saying she was inspired in the use of colours by the waterside setting and proximity: the Trident even has its own marina, and says of its Pier One restaurant and Foredeck bar that “the only way to be closer to the water is to get on a boat.”

Continuing on the marine theme, a curated collection of monochrome coastal photography by local photographer Rohan Reilly hangs in individual bedrooms, with furnishings from Ken Jackson, and from O’Donnell’s of Skibbereen.