Jurys ballsbridge haunted?

KT!

Was staying in what was Jurys Ballsbridge (which is now d4 hotel ballsbridge) at the weekend when my boyfriend who works in the hotel industry mentioned that a reliable and well connected colleague had mentioned to him recently that Jurys in Ballsbridge had a haunted hotel room which they did not rent out for that very reason, and that his colleague had come across the info because it seems that Jurys had to reluctantly inform the new owners of this situation upon the sale of the hotel. So my boyfriend and I were musing as to whether the current operators were applying the same policy regarding the room in question?
Anyhow, I find myself now very curious about this supposedly haunted room and was wondering if anyone out there knew any more about the story... Like who the ghost is meant to be? What is the history of the hotel? Which room is it exactly? (a useful one to know for future visits I thinkk )

Anyhow, if anyone has anything to contribute, I'd be grateful.

Riamfada

I worked there for a while and heard nothing about it..

cazzy

Id say someone is pulling your leg.
A hotel room in D4 left empty ? I dont think so.
If they advertised it as haunted theyd probably get more for it - theres B&B's and castles that sell rooms based on being haunted !

6th

Myself, Stoner & Monkeyfudge were at the Ghost Covention on Friday night .... was "ok" and after a while we went back to the hotel. We watched 1408 in one room and then I went back to my room own my room - even after that film I slept like a baby.

Anyway alot of stories are going to pop up after this film has been release and I suggest everyone see and it you cant help but feel the same was Cussack does in the early part of the film.

Haunted room in Jurys that they wont rent out? ... not imo.

Dave!

Might be worthwhile to ring them up and ask? I'm sure a manager would know

KT!

DaveMcG wrote: »

Might be worthwhile to ring them up and ask? I'm sure a manager would know

Yeah I'm really regretting not asking the receptionist on checkout. I did a bit of a search on this story and it seems the Irish Times ran a story about it earlier this year, claiming it was room 243 but I can't read the rest of the article as I'm not a subscriber.

Ziycon

KT! wrote: »

Yeah I'm really regretting not asking the receptionist on checkout. I did a bit of a search on this story and it seems the Irish Times ran a story about it earlier this year, claiming it was room 243 but I can't read the rest of the article as I'm not a subscriber.

Post a link for the story, i worked in the hotel for over a year and never heard about any haunted rooms at all, if there was i would have assumed i would have known about it as it was my job to know everything about the place!

DublinWriter

KT! wrote: »

Jurys had to reluctantly inform the new owners of this situation upon the sale of the hotel.

Unlikely considering the new owners want to level the place to build an apartment block.

It will be sad to see Durys go.

Stoner

I've heard of it from somewhere,, it's mentioned in some Irish ghost stroy book i read before, nothing about a room being empty, but a ghost was mentioned and is in print somewhere.

6th

Girl in a corridor outside a particular room which is 2XX ... if my source is right.

Spades

Dont believe these storys, heard the same story for a hotel in Sligo. Nonsense

Gillie

Spades wrote: »

Dont believe these storys, heard the same story for a hotel in Sligo. Nonsense

Which one?

KT!

DublinWriter wrote: »

Unlikely considering the new owners want to level the place to build an apartment block.

I don't think so. Its been taken over by a group called D4 Hotels, a new hotel group whose angle is to offer lower cost rooms in Dublin by reducing their own costs by not supplying room service or offering breakfast, instead having amenities there like a tuck shop or basic breakfast bar where guests purchase their food. Even the hotel bar is now owned and operated seperate to the hotel..a fact we learned when we returned to the hotel to have a drink at 1 am only to find it had closed early

KT!

6th wrote: »

Girl in a corridor outside a particular room which is 2XX ... if my source is right.

Really?? Very interesting. Where'd you hear that?

cazzy

It was purchased for apartment blocks. They wanted to go really high - 30 floors or something like that and of course the residents objected so while the legal people sort it all out someone though we have this empty hotel in D4 which we cant knock down yet so for an interim measure they have decided to rent it out as a budget internet hotel but they are not going to bother making it a 4 star or doing it up all nice. There s rumours that they may rent out the old bar/restaurant etc for other companies to manage that part of it and open up thei own food area but the plan is still for aparments.
The buyer paid a massive sum for it - he would never get his money back if it was a hotel. It was the highest price ever paid for a lot that size in ireland as far as i know.
And you can be sure Jurys never left a room empty due to a ghost !!!!!

Spades

Gillie wrote: »

Which one?

The Clarion

smelltheglove

Ah the creepie clarion ex mental institute stayed there 3 times never anything strange or out of the ordinary having said that its is very old with a lot of history.A few of the locals i know from down there said if was creepy and they heard stories etc but i didnt experiance anything

Mazeire

One of the rooms in the Shelbourne is haunted as well isn't it? By the ghost of a little girl, which i know sounds like i'm pulling it straight out of the shiningh but i'm sure i read it somewhere....