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Tuam's Corralea Court Hotel has closed

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  • 13-11-2010 11:49am
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    Registered Users Posts: 4,676 ✭✭✭


    Sorry to see this - a sign on the doorway says that the hotel has ceased trading. I feel sorry for the manager, Gerry, because he was trying to make a go of it, and it seemed to be a well-run place.

    I think the final nail in the coffin was the roadworks outside the hotel for the past month - that seems to have finished it off.
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  • Registered Users Posts: 12,206 ✭✭✭✭amiable


    I've heard it will be open again next month. Hope thats true


  • Registered Users Posts: 809 ✭✭✭dec25532


    It must be under new management then?


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,206 ✭✭✭✭amiable


    Possibly. It was somebody within the hotel industry that told me so hopefully its true.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,105 ✭✭✭hiscan


    I just passed it 10 mins ago and it's as busy as ever in there :confused:


  • Registered Users Posts: 31,819 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    hiscan wrote: »
    I just passed it 10 mins ago and it's as busy as ever in there :confused:

    You sure?! I mean, I was just on the bus with one of the former employees...


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  • Registered Users Posts: 809 ✭✭✭dec25532


    Hah? I thought it was closed so how could they be having meals? Seem ridiculous.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,105 ✭✭✭hiscan


    My bad,I keep getting mixed up with the hotel on the Miltown road which my missus is after telling me is the Ard Ri.Apologies Mars Bar and dec :o:o:o


  • Registered Users Posts: 809 ✭✭✭dec25532


    Word is that Martin Geoghegan of Geoghegan's nightclub may be interested in reopening it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,127 ✭✭✭✭Leeg17


    Text my mam there about the Ard Rí being closed, she said no that it's the Corralea up at the square that's ceased trading..


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,206 ✭✭✭✭amiable


    I can confirm that the Ard Ri is thriving still and very busy.
    Tom McHugh is laughing all the way to the bank i'd say


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  • Registered Users Posts: 809 ✭✭✭dec25532


    Don't think any hotel owner is laughing all the way to the bank at the moment . . . not when many of them are just charging an amount to turn over a room in the hope that those who avail of the bargains will leave a few quid in the bar or restaurant.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,206 ✭✭✭✭amiable


    dec25532 wrote: »
    Don't think any hotel owner is laughing all the way to the bank at the moment . . . not when many of them are just charging an amount to turn over a room in the hope that those who avail of the bargains will leave a few quid in the bar or restaurant.
    I can safely say you are wrong here in regards to the Ard Ri


  • Registered Users Posts: 809 ✭✭✭dec25532


    amiable wrote: »
    I can safely say you are wrong here in regards to the Ard Ri

    I hope you are right because Tuam cannot afford to lose another hotel. That said, the Ard Ri seems to be a well run ship and seems to be doing well at the weekends in particular. Wouldn't have that many bed nights though.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,105 ✭✭✭hiscan


    amiable wrote: »
    I can safely say you are wrong here in regards to the Ard Ri

    I think you could be right,the restaurant always seems to be full no matter what day of the week I go in there,food is very nice in it too.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,206 ✭✭✭✭amiable


    hiscan wrote: »
    I think you could be right,the restaurant always seems to be full no matter what day of the week I go in there,food is very nice in it too.
    Restaurant is very busy alright


  • Registered Users Posts: 809 ✭✭✭dec25532


    amiable wrote: »
    But people should try and get parking space there on sunday afternoons. Impossible

    That is because of Della's afternoon tea dances which are held every Sunday in the hotel and are a roaring success.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 262 ✭✭coup1917


    Emmm....Has Tom McHugh highjacked this thread as well as the Corralea's business....????.....;)
    I seem to learning more about what the Ard Ri has going for it than the plight of the hotel the thread was started about.....:D:D


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,206 ✭✭✭✭amiable


    dec25532 wrote: »
    That is because of Della's afternoon tea dances which are held every Sunday in the hotel and are a roaring success.
    of course


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 262 ✭✭coup1917


    amiable wrote: »
    But of course.... business is business and its just one of many things going on there during the week

    amiable, you have no shame......You'll be offering me a discount next.....!!

    Won't you...:D:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 56 ✭✭hanns.s


    amiable wrote: »
    I can confirm that the Ard Ri is thriving still and very busy.
    Tom McHugh is laughing all the way to the bank i'd say

    Pity he doesn't put as much effort into An Clochrán estate, I had to go in there yesterday and I was in one big pothole! Its a shame because my friend lives there and it is such a nice estate and the houses were not painted right from the start and the road isn't done and the green area is a field which the grass needs cutting badly, such a shame :o


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 56 ✭✭hanns.s


    coup1917 wrote: »
    Emmm....Has Tom McHugh highjacked this thread as well as the Corralea's business....????.....;)
    I seem to learning more about what the Ard Ri has going for it than the plight of the hotel the thread was started about.....:D:D

    It is a shame about The Corralea, it was a lovely hotel but I must admit I didn't go in too often...because of lack of funds - not the hotel! I hate to see any business needed to close and whomever said about the road works I think is correct, I don't do any of my business in Tuam now - you never know what road will be closed!


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,206 ✭✭✭✭amiable


    hanns.s wrote: »
    Pity he doesn't put as much effort into An Clochrán estate, I had to go in there yesterday and I was in one big pothole! Its a shame because my friend lives there and it is such a nice estate and the houses were not painted right from the start and the road isn't done and the green area is a field which the grass needs cutting badly, such a shame :o
    Seperate issue completely my friend


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,206 ✭✭✭✭amiable


    coup1917 wrote: »
    amiable, you have no shame......You'll be offering me a discount next.....!!

    Won't you...:D:D
    I'd just like to say i have nothing at all to do with the ard ri hotel or tom mchugh what so ever.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 56 ✭✭hanns.s


    amiable wrote: »
    Seperate issue completely my friend

    I know but when in Rome! And you started about Tom laughing all his way to the bank...put it into the estate people paid good money for the houses! :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,206 ✭✭✭✭amiable


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 56 ✭✭hanns.s


    amiable wrote: »
    What has when in Rome got to do with my post? I think you should re read the whole thread. Someone earlier thought it was the Ard ri that was closed. I was merely stating that in fact it was doing well.

    When in rome do as ..... people were talking about Ard Ri and Tom so I just put my bit in it, if it was a seperate issue why didn't you post that to the first person who bought it up? not been *itchy about this - just stating a fact:confused:


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,206 ✭✭✭✭amiable


    hanns.s wrote: »
    When in rome do as ..... people were talking about Ard Ri and Tom so I just put my bit in it, if it was a seperate issue why didn't you post that to the first person who bought it up? not been *itchy about this - just stating a fact:confused:
    Your post doesn't make any sense


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 56 ✭✭hanns.s


    amiable wrote: »
    Your post doesn't make any sense

    mmm ok, in simple terms I was not the only one who posted about Ard Ri and just stated a fact about it doing so well and where the money could go....I was not the one who brought up ard ri just mearly added to it... Ishould not have got out of my bed this morning...ps I usually don't make sense


  • Registered Users Posts: 401 ✭✭rco2000


    hanns.s wrote: »
    I know but when in Rome! And you started about Tom laughing all his way to the bank...put it into the estate people paid good money for the houses! :D

    +1

    Relevant & debatable point to this discussion since it was moved to an Ard Ri discussion inadvertently by Leeg17 and then more so by amiable.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 56 ✭✭hanns.s


    rco2000 wrote: »
    +1

    Relevant & debatable point to this discussion which was moved to an Ard Ri discussion inadvertently by Leeg17 and more so by amiable.

    ha ha so it wasn't me :P


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