Hotel for hen night

ibarelycare

I'm organising my sister's hen night for March this year. There are about 25 of us going to Kilkenny for the night and I'm looking for a hotel. I've already been in touch with the Lyrath and Newpark for prices. I'm looking for somewhere preferably with a spa and somewhere reasonably nice (4* probably). I've been to Kilkenny a couple of times but have stayed in the cheapest place available while going on the piss for the weekend! My sister would like somewhere a bit nicer, and we don't mind if it's not smack bang in the city centre. Any recommendations?

Ickle Magoo

Langton House? Ormonde hotel? River Court? Hotel Kilkenny? Pembroke? Zuni's?

I'm not sure if they all have spa's but they're the 4*+ hotels I can think off the top of my head that are central to Kilkenny City.

Fudge74

Hiya
I organised my sister's hen night in Kilkenny a couple of years ago and we had the best weekend ever. We stayed in Langton's. Fab. Got a great deal for two nights b&b and one evening meal. There were about 20 of us for the two nights so we had the meal on the Friday night. We had an absolute ball and I'd defo recommend it.
Have a great time

fabbydabby

There's no spa in Langtons. (heh heh).

The only two places that tick all the boxes (city centre location, spa, lots of stars etc) are the river court and the ormonde.

up for anything

Forget Lyrath. For a supposedly top class hotel the food service there is appalling. Slow and lengthy doesn't begin to describe the wait between ordering and eating.

Ickle Magoo

That's not like them - I love Lyrath, never had an issue there.

ibarelycare

We're not actually going to have dinner in the hotel so that doesn't really matter tbh!

Thanks for your suggestions everyone, we've decided to go for the Newpark. They've given us a special price of €59.50 B&B per person sharing. All the other hotels were quoting us in or around €75 and the Newpark seems just as good, if not nicer than some of the other ones we enquired about.

Next thing to organise is a restaurant! Could anyone recommend somewhere nice that would accomodate a large party (22-24)? We don't mind having a set menu and we'd prefer somewhere that did cocktails but that's not essential. The only cuisines we wouldn't be too pushed for the meal would be Chinese/Indian.

sunflower27

Hi OP

Newpark has a great leisure centre! Good choice.

For the meal, I'd recommend Zuni's. Stylish place perfect for a girls night, food fantstic and they do cocktails. Enjoy!!!

ibarelycare

Hi,

Sorry for bumping this thread again!

As I said, we have the hotel booked for the hen. We also booked Yindee's restaurant on Saturday evening for dinner.

However we were hoping to reserve an area in a bar for afterwards, from about 9 o'clock (having an early dinner). I've already got in touch with The Left Bank and they've no availability for 25 of us.

Someone recommended Matt the Miller. Can anyone recommend this or suggest somewhere else?

Thanks!!!

fabbydabby

Matt's is roughly 9.4 Metres away from Vindees which is handy.

You could rent Harry's Bar in Langton's for a private do.

ibarelycare

Oh didn't realise Matt's was so close to the restaurant. That'd be perfect! Hopefully they can accommodate us now!

PhilipMarlowe

There's 2 Yindees - one out in Lyrath (which is outside the town) and Yindees Downtown which is across the street from Matts.
Staying in Newpark, going to Yindees and hopefully Matt the Millers... sounds like you have it well sorted!

ibarelycare

Licksy wrote: »

There's 2 Yindees - one out in Lyrath (which is outside the town) and Yindees Downtown which is across the street from Matts.
Staying in Newpark, going to Yindees and hopefully Matt the Millers... sounds like you have it well sorted!

Yeah it's Yindees Downtown we're going to. A small group of us have now decided to go down on the Friday night too so having dinner in the hotel that night and then the rest of the party are joining us on Saturday afternoon. Really looking forward to it, love Kilkenny

BlackBlade

I would go with the River Court!
its central easy to find and a great pub right outside!
lovely view of the castle overlooking the river....
Ive organised a lot of group trips in the past and this is the one I would go for!

ibarelycare

BlackBlade wrote: »

I would go with the River Court!
its central easy to find and a great pub right outside!
lovely view of the castle overlooking the river....
Ive organised a lot of group trips in the past and this is the one I would go for!

We've already booked the hotel! Thanks anyway

BlackBlade

might see ye there ladies lol..