castleknock hotel as wedding venue ???

sc86

looking at this hotel - cant fault it so so but dont know anybody that got married there

l shape room is strange and we could have 250 guests

anybody anything to say
good or bad please

PopTarts

Lots of reviews here...

https://www.weddingsonline.ie/reviews/castleknock-hotel-country-club

I've been in it a few times, work events / parties and they always seem to run smoothly.

Icemancometh

I was a guest at a wedding there and had a great time. Think the bride and groom were pretty happy with everything too. I thought the L-shape was a good thing too; dance-floor was a bit separate but no harm in that.

sc86

thanks
it seams mostly small wedding there
would the l shape room be a problem for 250 people?

sweetie

sc86 wrote: »

thanks
it seams mostly small wedding there
would the l shape room be a problem for 250 people?

You would be best asking the hotel but I'm sure it's probably doable.

BetsyEllen

I haven't been to a wedding there but we did have our Christmas Party there last year and there were around 120 people.

It was brilliant - the food was lovely, rooms were lovely - just a really nice hotel with a good atmosphere and friendly staff.

Based on this I imagine it would be a good choice for a wedding.

sc86

they have said it is but they are not going to turn away business
the shape of the room is the problem

Walter H Price

we had this hotel booked for our wedding this November but cancelled it. Its a lovely hotel and the staff were great but we had two main issues with it.

1) They have building works planned for most of this year and next year , at the time our wedding was booked for the spa and some other facilities would have been closed as well as hoardings up outside.

2) At the time we also found out through a family friend that the hotel is is being used as emergency accommodation for homeless family's , we also found this a bit off putting , i'm not sure whether it still is or not.

It really is a great hotel and we were really disappointed to have to cancel it but those two things really put us off , i'd just check it out with the hotel before you book it if either of those things would bother you.

Teddington Cuddlesworth

I attended a wedding there a few months back.
The L shape room gives good acoustics later in the night. People can sit down and talk at the tables while music is pumping out around the dance floor.
The downside I saw was that there was no smoking area off the room, a large portion of the guests at the wedding stayed around the hotel bar because of this (the hotel bar has a smoking area attached to it)

Food was good.
Drinks are pricey, Guinness was 5.80 a pint
Staff are nice and tolerant of drunks.

sc86

Walter H Price wrote: »

we had this hotel booked for our wedding this November but cancelled it. Its a lovely hotel and the staff were great but we had two main issues with it.

1) They have building works planned for most of this year and next year , at the time our wedding was booked for the spa and some other facilities would have been closed as well as hoardings up outside.

2) At the time we also found out through a family friend that the hotel is is being used as emergency accommodation for homeless family's , we also found this a bit off putting , i'm not sure whether it still is or not.

It really is a great hotel and we were really disappointed to have to cancel it but those two things really put us off , i'd just check it out with the hotel before you book it if either of those things would bother you.

hi
yes they told us about the building plans
finish date is dec 17 so wont effect us as we are mid 2018 but i can see how
this would be a huge issue for anybody this year

sc86

Teddington Cuddlesworth wrote: »

I attended a wedding there a few months back.
The L shape room gives good acoustics later in the night. People can sit down and talk at the tables while music is pumping out around the dance floor.
The downside I saw was that there was no smoking area off the room, a large portion of the guests at the wedding stayed around the hotel bar because of this (the hotel bar has a smoking area attached to it)

Food was good.
Drinks are pricey, Guinness was 5.80 a pint
Staff are nice and tolerant of drunks.

hi
looked at the room 2 weeks ago and there is smoking room in it
it was 1 of my main concerns - it was in perfect location
otherwise i would not be interested in location as everybody would be 2 spread out

price of drink wouldnt bother me once not watered down
i was at 2 wedding recently and all the sprits were watered down
it was a disgrce

Walter H Price

sc86 wrote: »

hi
yes they told us about the building plans
finish date is dec 17 so wont effect us as we are mid 2018 but i can see how
this would be a huge issue for anybody this year

Yeh if it wasn't for the works we more than likely wouldn't have cancelled , we only found out about the other issue after we had already changed venue so it wasn't a factor in our decision but may have been if we'd found out earlier.

we moved the wedding outside Dublin altogether after Castlenock , so few nice modern hotels like that in Dublin to be honest

sc86

Walter H Price wrote: »

Yeh if it wasn't for the works we more than likely wouldn't have cancelled , we only found out about the other issue after we had already changed venue so it wasn't a factor in our decision but may have been if we'd found out earlier.

we moved the wedding outside Dublin altogether after Castlenock , so few nice modern hotels like that in Dublin to be honest

its very hard find a nice location - close to where we live that nobody has used before - and its not dear for what you get
i cant really fault it apart from will it hold the amount of people we have comfortably

where did you chose in end?

Walter H Price

sc86 wrote: »

its very hard find a nice location - close to where we live that nobody has used before - and its not dear for what you get
i cant really fault it apart from will it hold the amount of people we have comfortably

where did you chose in end?

its very difficult to be honest and honestly i couldn't fault the staff even when we were cancelling they were so helpful and helped get our deposits back from any of their recommended suppliers we had booked. I honestly do think that room will be fine for your numbers we say it at a wedding event fully opened up and it was huge.

we eventually booked the Malton in Killarney after allot of looking , neither of us are from Kerry but its a lovely spot and we spent a good bit of time there in the past.

Sarah1916

I was at a wedding there last year and it was a good wedding but the one problem I found was with the drinks reception. It was basically in the hotel lobby amongst all the other guests of the hotel and it just wasn't like a proper drinks reception at all.

sc86

thanks for feedback

autumnbelle

The food is amazing in it- possibly the nicest meal I have had at a wedding but Id say the couple upgraded from normal food packages- fillet steak and other option sea bass both amazing