Hunter's Hotel

Another delightful return on our annual autumn visit to Hunters Hotel. Another absolute joy! An old worlde family run hotel which is rightly celebrated for its hospitality, excellent food and very snug and comfortable accommodation, beautiful gardens and a great family tradition of hospitality stretching back for many years. Coupled with this, the very warm welcome from the staff - thank you again so much, Katka, Iva, Margaret and all we met again including the delightful black cat outside we first met last year and who is still there! Have booked 2 trips in 2026! Ideal for visiting nearby historical and beautiful Glendalough and Co. Wicklow!

Lovely "old world without being patronising " experience. Old fashioned elegance and politeness. Staff are delightful. Food is hearty and scrumptious. Lovely flavours without being too fussy. We appreciated our comfortable undisturbed sleep. Elegant gardens and plenty to do and see in the locality. Thumbs up!

Stayed here for a family birthday weekend in December, ages from 11-70+. Stayed on a bed, breakfast, dinner package. Hotel is full of old worlde charm and character. The lounge area for pre-dinner drinks was cosy with a warm friendly vibe. Staff were helpful and a pleasure to deal with throughout our stay. It was a delight to have our room warmed by an open fire. Dinner offered good choice, high quality produce & good portion sizes. Breakfast served to order and a pleasant experience. Really enjoyed our stay and would definitely recommend for a small family event.

Beautiful old school Hotel and restaurant. Afternoon tea is lovely with beautiful sandwiches and yummy fresh cakes . The dinner is exquisite and the menu changes every day. Service was so nice and we were well looked after . Highly recommend 😁

We stayed in the Hotel overnight in September on a nice Summers day. We were impressed and booked a return visit for 19 November. When we arrived and had checked in Margaret arranged for the fire in our bedroom to be lit. We had a pre dinner drink by a lovely fire in the lounge. We mentioned that the fire in the room had begun to die down. We had a lovely 3 course dinner. We both had beetroot and goats cheese salad to start. The beetroot grown in the Hotel garden was superb. For mains we chose the hake and the bell pepper and black olive risotto. Both were delicious. For dessert we chose the pannacotta and the apple crumble both of which were very enjoyable. We returned to our room to find that Margaret had arranged for the fire to be relit and it was blazing nicely. We were delighted when we found two hot water bottles had been placed in our bed. This Hotel is a gem. The service is incredible and the location very pretty. Birdwatchers can enjoy watching the finches, robins , blue tits, great tits and other small birds swooping onto the various bird feeders placed around the garden. We will be returning to the Hotel early next year.

We had a most enjoyable one-night break in this lovely old-world hotel.From the moment we arrived we felt welcomed and pampered.Our bedroom was very comfortable and even had a fire lighting.We had a wonderful dinner following a pre-dinner drink in the cosy bar where afterwards we enjoyed the good company of other guests . What a lovely touch to find a hot weather bottle in our bed in addition to the cosily heated bedroom. All the staff without exception were very friendly and so helpful. A gem of a place which we highly recommend.

The present owners have been running this hotel since 1820. The decor is very traditional and a lot of the furniture looks as though it dates from William 4th and the early Victorian period. Rooms are large and comfortable with modern comforts such as duvets and efficient WiFi. The hotel is well kept and scrupulously clean. There is no tv in the hotel but the guests are so friendly that one easily makes friends in the 1940s style bar which has two open fires, the drawing room and the garden where afternoon tea is served on fine days. The garden is stunning with attractive lawns and borders as well as the kitchen garden which supplies food and flowers for the hotel- all the bedrooms, dining room, drawing room and the wide corridors have lovely vases of flowers.|The staff are universally charming and efficient. The food and dinner and breakfast is excellent.|There’s lots to do in the locality and the hotel is just about an hour from Dublin ferry terminal.|We have stayed at this lovely place three times and look forward to our next visit .

Arriving at Hunter's Hotel is different - it's not your regular hotel, and the normal star system feels ill-fitted to denote it. As you walk in, you follow a 300 year old tradition of travellers availing of a safe & comfortable haven. The staff are, without exception, welcoming in an informal way that feels genuine, Irish, and exactly right. Everything feels a little worn around the edges, and for sure it could do with a bit of TLC like the best of us, but the comfort is deep, the fires lit, and the food delicious with the best of home-cooked and home-grown fare. The gardens are lovely for morning coffees, afternoon teas, and evening apéros. The beds are comfy, and the showers strong. Good bones. Go :)

Step back in time to this wonderfully snug hotel in Wicklow. I booked afternoon tea here for my mum and grandmother one afternoon. Upon booking they advised they don't sit afternoon tea until 4pm but as it was quiet they'd accommodate us at 2pm. We were brought into the front room where the real open fire was lighting and which looked out into the gardens. Unfortunately it was raining so we didn't walk around. The afternoon tea was gorgeous, a lovely treat, service & staff were lovely, didn't over crowd us and left us in peace to enjoy our treats! Have heard good reviews about their lunches, would be interested in going back to check it out.

The food is always superb, fresh ingredients from the kitchen garden in addition to whatever produce is local and in season. The relaxed atmosphere from the moment you arrive, it's a great break from the hustle and bustle. Arrive 30mins before dinner enjoy a drink in the bar where you will be given your menus, then you order and when dinner is ready you will be brought into the dining room. The dinner is excellent value, and there's a superb wine list to go with it and the staff are knowledgeable on this list so can help you choose. The gardens are also beautiful to sit out in on a summer day.

Ambience is wonderful. Service is not. Sunday afternoon lunch delivered cold "hot" soup. Plates were cold, however the fresh vegetables included wonderfully hot oven baked potatoes. If you want water, buy by the bottle or order early. After four request from different staff, a jug of water was delivered to already empty glasses that were drying out naturally, after 20 minutes. Pretty gardens and glorious setting.

We stayed at Hunters for one night only. Dinner was just ok, I didn't feel it was anything outstanding for the price charged. There was no wifi and a phone in our bedroom wasn't working (we tried to call reception). The room was dated. I understand that it supposed to have an antique feeling, but I thought it looked simply old and I couldn't understand what was all the excitement about in all the reviews I read on Tripadvisor. Breakfast was really nice (although I wished they had beans). Fruit selection was amazing. There is a little room, where guests can relax, with fireplace and some sofas and chairs. It looks cozy. The little garden is very well cared for and is lovely, but it is indeed very small. Had the weather been nice, I imagine it would be lovely to have tea outside, but we were not so lucky as it was raining cats and dogs. Overall lovely place, I just had higher expectations. Would go there for afternoon tea, wouldn't stay overnight again though.

Beautiful Gardens, younger staff who served us were polite had two middle aged ladies who were very rude.

Charming Old World Hotel , Very pleasant " Snug" Food is good and Wholesome, Gardens are very Pretty in the Sunshine, I like it, it is what I imagined Ireland was like many years ago. Reminds me of the Village in France where I was born. Well, that is all I have to say.

good food, great wait staff, snooty, arrogant and inflexible ownership that brought the stereotype of the landed aristocracy to life. it was a very pretty location, very quiet and had the most beautiful of bluebells, but it didn't make up for the way we were treated and the exorbitant prices of both accommodations and food. we felt like we had very few choices: much of the place ran on the policy of "take it or leave it" and there was little else we could do. some people don't mind being ignored but we certainly did. if you don't mind, by all means go. maybe the folks who dish out a great deal of extra money for wine and beer and soda (yes, soda!) get treated better...I don't know. the experience left a terrible taste in our mouths, to speak in a metaphoric fashion.