Chris H.
Yelp
Having stayed at the Croke Park more than a dozen times for business, I have following review:
While the accommodations are ok, this property fails in the air conditioning department, the working-refrigerator department, and in the location-department.
AC is poor and the rooms can be warm and stuffy. Many of the in-room refrigerators do not operate.
And if you're looking for a true Dublin experience, do not stay here. It's a 20-30 minute walk to the city center, through sketchy areas.
The stadium is directly across the street, and since there are no bars or restaurants nearby, all the drunk sports fans frequently fill the lobby, hotel restaurant, hotel bar, hotel terrace, and courtyard. It's positively obnoxious for the paying hotel guests who want nothing more than a safe, clean and quiet place to lay their heads.
After the stadium events the hotel's public men's room off the lobby becomes TRASHED! Overflowing toilets, wet trash and vomit covers the floor. Urine, puke, and feces mix with discarded plastic cups, wet paper towels and random dropped coins swim in pools of filth at each and every stadium event.
While smokers are required to smoke outside, during these events the doors are propped open allowing the smell produced by hundreds of cigarettes to permeate the indoor public areas as well as the guest rooms above. In the morning, the staff attempts to conceal this aroma with copious amounts of cheap floral spray and overwhelming tri-wick scented candles placed on the front desk. This is not the smoker's fault; it's the hotel's.
This being said, the restaurant is good, and the rooms are ok. But this place is in the middle of nowhere with nothing to do nearby, and seems to care more about the alcohol revenue gained from the stadium events than they care about safety, peace, and quiet of their paying guests.