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"Affordable" Hotel

  • 09-11-2010 5:50pm
    #1
    krankykitty
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    Hi,

    With all this recession business, I keep hearing on other forums about how hotels are reducing their prices for weddings (but without actually hearing which hotels!). Sometimes I think people don't want to reveal their sources :p

    Would appreciate any suggestions for good value wedding packages based in Dublin - also any suggestions for hotels which allow a civil ceremony on site.

    Thanks everyone!


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  • #2
    ConnectDJs
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    The Avon Ri in Blessington, right at the lake, is meant to be very competitive. It's a really nice spot, worth checking out...


  • #3
    Redpunto
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    Carnegie Court Hotel in Swords - had mine there and I'd go back without a second thought


  • #4
    Whispered
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    ConnectDJs wrote: »
    The Avon Ri in Blessington, right at the lake, is meant to be very competitive. It's a really nice spot, worth checking out...
    I got a price from them before our wedding and I not only found them very expensive but not at all flexible in their packages.


  • #5
    krankykitty
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    Thanks, great ideas, i've never been to either...


  • #6
    Whispered
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    If you'd be prepared to go a bit outside Dublin I'd recommend the Ardenode House Hotel in Ballymore Eustace. We got married there and everything was absolutely perfect. (besides me being sick!)

    They're flexible and so easy to work with. Th hotel has only 17 bedrooms so you'll have it to yourself.


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  • #7
    sweetie
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    Passed the Dolmen just outside Carlow town recently and it is advertising wedding package specials and on an episode of theat Irish wedding show the groom seemed to bargain down the price in Mt Wolseley near tullow.


  • #8
    stimpson
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    We got married in Bewleys Ballsbridge. The Thomas Prior Hall certainly had the wow factor - very unique. We had looked at more expensive hotels and the ceremony would have been in a standard function room, complete with dirty carpets and the smell of stale beer. The hall has recently been restored and was amazing:

    http://www.thomaspriorhall.com/weddings.html#

    They have a 100 people for 6500 euro package deal (including bar extention, DJ and evening food, bridal suite), but we were still able to negotiate a little as it was a mid week wedding. The food was excellent and the wedding organiser (whose name escapes me at the moment) played a blinder and spotted a couple of pending disasters before they happened. Couldn't have asked for any more to be honest.

    Edit: Oh, just remembered, Dunboyne Castle was second on our list and was also really nice for a civil ceremony.


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