Multi-colored glass ornaments hanging above the reception desk, and a branch on an adjacent wall, decorated with pink and purple ribbons and baubles, create a festive-like atmosphere in the lobby of the House Hotel. The effect is enhanced by a rainbow of gaily-colored armchairs with different patterns.
Add to this, witty sayings distributed around the walls such as 'Smile, you're designed to' and 'The Best Time for New Beginnings is Now,' and a helpful receptionist from the nearby town of Carna, and you have a warm, welcoming, homey-like atmosphere.
Located in the western Irish city of Galway, this 4-star boutique hotel is in a convenient and central location to the popular ‘Latin American Quarter,’ a name derived from the city’s historic trading ties with Spain. Walk out the back of the ground-floor restaurant, The Bistro, which also serves as the breakfast room, and you're right beside the city's most well-known theater, The Druid, which hosts performances nationally and internationally.
Just one hundred meters beyond is the narrow, bustling pedestrian Quay Street, lined with pubs, clubs and cafes, some featuring Irish traditional musicians playing accordion, tin whistle and fiddle and others offering live jazz, pop and rock ‘n' roll music. Not to mention an array of talented street buskers. Shop Street and Eyre Square, filled with stores of all kinds, are within easy walking distance and the famous ‘Spanish Arch’ and the city museum are also close by.
The 40-room House Hotel occupies a listed building, a site that was once Brennan's Steel Works, later called Brennan's Yard, which once employed generations of local people. Now it is a cool, chic kind of place that’s a popular venue for personal celebrations such as hen parties, with special packages that include bed and breakfast, 3-course dinner, live musical entertainment and even fun cocktail-making classes with a professional mixologist.
