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Forest Hill B&B

Glann Rd, Derrymoyle, Oughterard H91AC93 Ireland
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#4 of 16 B&Bs in Oughterard
4.8 of 5 bubbles
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4.7 of 5 bubbles
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Free breakfast
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susan d wrote a review Jul 2021
London, England, United Kingdom
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5.0 of 5 bubbles
I stayed with Delores for a couple of nights late July just after she had reopened after Covid, what a most amazing welcome and beautiful home she had opened up for a very special few. Her rooms are the cleanest I have stayed in and the bathroom is compact but has everything you need. Now where do I start with the views as you drive up from oughterard you do not know what to expect as it is so beautiful around there. You drive up the sweeping driveway to be greeted by an unassuming house. Do not be deceived as when you walk in you will be amazed by what you see, a fresh clean modern home and that is what makes it , you feel like you have come home and nothing is too much trouble. It is so exclusive and quiet with the most stunning views as it is set away from the road it some beautiful woodland. Around there are stunning places to walk and lakes to view and swim in as they are so clear. You are so near to some stunning beaches and lakes Galway and Clifden are not far and the drive to these places is picturesque so not a chore. Delores is the most fantastic host and makes everything perfect for you and provides a great breakfast and has a great knowledge of the area as she has lived here always so knows the best places to go and where to eat. Also the best way to get there. If you drive up to doon you can see the most amazing sunsets and is very romantic. Or go the other way and do one of the six walks around windy park and get close to the wind turbines you can even touch them .
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Date of stay: July 2021Trip type: Travelled with friends
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Ann Marie J wrote a review Sept 2022
5.0 of 5 bubbles
We had the pleasure of staying one night here and really regret we didn't take the time to spend more. Dolores is delightful as is her sister in law-Pat. We were met with tea and pastries and assisted with setting up a small area for a phone call we had to take from the US. Dolores has such a hand on the history and what to do in the area. I wish I had the ability to consult with her prior to coming to Ireland. I am keeping her notes with the hope we can make it back to this lovely home and the area.
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Date of stay: August 2022
5.0 of 5 bubblesRooms
5.0 of 5 bubblesLocation
5.0 of 5 bubblesService
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Kathi G wrote a review Apr 2020
5.0 of 5 bubbles
We had a most delightful experience with Delores at her B&B. She was an amazing hostess and took amazing care of us. We visited just on the cusp of the COVID crisis, and she was both aware of and careful given the situation, but warm, inviting, friendly and a most welcome conversationalist in the midst of an uncertain time. The home is warm and inviting, and the food delicious. Delores gave us wonderful directions to several sites of interest that we would have most certainly missed had we not stayed with her. She is just wonderful, and we will go back. Hopefully, we've made a life-long friend too!
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Date of stay: March 2020
5.0 of 5 bubblesRooms
5.0 of 5 bubblesLocation
5.0 of 5 bubblesService
Room Tip: No bad rooms in the house - all have lovely views of the town and the lake!
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Eléonore m wrote a review Aug 2024
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Thanks to Dolorès and her dog Pencil for the warm welcome. It was just perfect.

The room was clean and very nice!
Breakfast was good too.

We definitely recommend this B&B! Dolores who is adorable, will help you plan your visits in Connemara.
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Date of stay: August 2024Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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Wanderingwolfchild wrote a review Feb 2015
Berlin, Germany
5.0 of 5 bubbles
I have never stayed somewhere that felt so much like home. Travelling on my own was daunting but Dolores welcomed me like an old friend. The room was clean, beautifully made up and had a breathtaking view. I was worried it might be cold after reading the previous review but that review couldnt have been further from the truth! The room was perfect and a nice warm welcome after being outside walking all day. There is a gorgeous lake at the bottom of the hill to walk around only 5 mins from the B&B and when I went I even had their black labrador for company.

The family were full of ideas and reccommendations of places to see and to have a drink which helped me to see the true Oughterard.Their food was fabulous especially the full Irish breakfast, which I sadly don't get in Australia!

The customer service was so great that this alone would bring me back. I will definitely be staying here on my next trip to Eurpoe. I cannot reccommend enough.
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Date of stay: December 2014
5.0 of 5 bubblesCleanliness
5.0 of 5 bubblesService
5.0 of 5 bubblesSleep Quality
Trip type: Travelled solo
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mike8707 wrote a review Feb 2015
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5.0 of 5 bubbles
We stayed here for 3 nights. Fantastic welcome from the hosts Dolores and John. Greeted with tea/coffee and delicious homemade cakes. Breakfast was a feast of full irish with homemade bread and numerous cups of tea or coffee. Dolores and John were extremely helpful providing maps and giving detailed descriptions of places to see. Nothing was too much trouble. They offered us transport to nearest village where we could have a lovely meal in the evening and a few drinks and were more than happy to collect us. Would definitely recommend a visit!
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Date of stay: December 2014
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Kim K wrote a review Feb 2015
Dunstable, United Kingdom
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Fantastic breath taking views just what the family needed. Owners made as feel completely at
Home b and b very clean and you will never go out hungry. Would recommend to all friends of all ages perfect any time of year
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Date of stay: January 2015
5.0 of 5 bubblesValue
5.0 of 5 bubblesLocation
5.0 of 5 bubblesService
Trip type: Travelled with family
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Wayne J wrote a review Feb 2015
London, United Kingdom
5.0 of 5 bubbles
We travelled to Oughterard for a wedding party in November with our three young children. On arrival at the guest house we were greeted by Dolores and her family and given a most warm welcome. We had tea and warm scones with jam which was perfect after our long drive. My youngest child had developed a sore throat on the flight over and Dolores had a remedy to hand. We were bowled over by the friendliness and care given our young family. In fact, my son had a fever in the night and Dolores offered to call out their local GP which was very kind. We had a most wonderful three night stay with this family who could not do enough for us. Our children particularly enjoyed the fabulous walks to the lake with the family dog in tow! Our breakfasts were hearty and filling which warranted us taking extra lakeshore walks! We will be returning in the summer for the Galway Races and will not stay anywhere other than here. Wonderful experience.
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Date of stay: November 2014Trip type: Travelled with family
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Cait1792 wrote a review Nov 2014
Vancouver, Canada
1.0 of 5 bubbles
Traveling in Ireland, I have almost always had amazing experiences with those who run bed and breakfasts and hotels. Unfortunately, Forest Hill Bed and Breakfast was the worst BnB I visited in Ireland, and I would not recommend staying there.

I booked Forest Hill for two nights, as I was really looking forward to seeing Connemara for the first time.

Myself and my boyfriend arrived late the first day, due to prior commitments on the way to Forest Hill. Of course, when we arrived, our room wasn't heated because the woman who ran the BnB got a late call from us and previously had believed we wouldn't show up. I regret not calling earlier and understand that any chill in the room at this time was my fault for not giving prior notice of a delayed arrival.

However, during the night it got very cold, to the point that I woke up at 5:40am and couldn't get back to sleep for another hour. As I have asthma, which can be aggravated by cold temperatures, I knew that I wouldn't get a good rest with such low temperatures.

In the morning, as soon as I was out of our room, I talked to the woman who worked at the BnB and asked if she could turn up the heat a bit more or give us a small heater for our room. I told her that this was because I had awoken in the middle of the night due to the chill.

Immediately, and shockingly to both my boyfriend and myself, she told us that she could arrange for us to go to another bed and breakfast in the area. She stated that she and her family were incredibly hot (and in this, I think was trying to say that turning up the heat was not an option). She did mention a heated blanket that I could use, but made no offer to turn on the heating a little bit more during the night or give us a small heater we could use so as to save on heating for the rest of the house.

I don't think it's too much to ask for a BnB to have sufficient heating, and though she assured us multiple times that Forest Hill wanted its guests to be happy and they wanted to keep their 'good reputation', her main option for keeping us warm was sending us away to another BnB.

As well, after talking to her a bit about how it was too cold, I mentioned that I have asthma and that it can get worse if I am too cold. And, I can honestly say, I have never had anyone make me feel like so much of a cripple for having asthma as she did in those ten minutes. She repeatedly stated that I had a 'medical condition'. She also had the gall to say that she wasn't offended if we wanted to leave, because she knew I had a 'medical condition' and she wanted the people that stay at Forest Hill to be as happy as possible!

It boggles my mind even now that she would say she wasn't offended for essentially kicking us out of the BnB we had booked! My asthma is not a life-threatening condition, and it would have gotten better with the simplest of actions - turning on the heat. We were only planning to be there for one more night, as well.

And then it got worse. She told us that she had called several BnBs in which we could possibly stay, and that she had found one that had an open room for us. When I asked her for directions, she led us to a very large and general map, and I took a picture of the place she had pointed on the map and we were off.

We drove about 20 minutes after turning left where the woman who worked at Forest Hill had instructed us to, at a particular crossroads. After seeing no sign of the BnB she had mentioned, we spoke to two people on the street, one of them a bed and breakfast owner herself. Both said that they knew of no such BnB in that area, but the woman who ran her own BnB said that we should go back to the crossroads, and go straight (Forest Hill should have directed us right at the crossroads, when they had directed us left).

So, we drove to the crossroads and past it for about another 30 minutes or so. By this point it was around 12, and we had left Forest Hill at around 10:10am.

We found the bed and breakfast that Forest Hill had directed us to... And it had been closed so long that there were spiderwebs on all of the doors.

A worker at this new BnB was in the shed feeding kittens, so we talked to her and she informed us that the BnB had closed early for the season because the owner had been so successful this year.

It was already around 12:50pm and we had to meet family in Galway, so we couldn't spend any more time searching for BnBs. After visiting Galway, we called Forest Hill again because we still didn't have a place to stay. I called three times, and on the fourth call, an hour after the first call, the Forest Hill woman picked up (I should note that I'm not using her name because I'm not exactly sure what her name was - I called her Dolores three times, since the BnB promotional materials said that Forest Hill was run by a Dolores, and she never corrected me, but then I met her sister who introduced herself to me as Dolores and told me her sister - who I had been calling Dolores - was called Pauline... It was confusing so I'm not exactly sure what to call her).

After asking if I could rent a room again, I was told that the room had already been taken, and there were no other rooms available. Fair enough, I had waited a while to call after our long trip to find the alternative BnB. However, when I informed her that the BnB she had 'contacted' was actually closed for the season, she seemed shocked and said something along the lines of, 'Oh, I do hope she's (the woman who runs the alternative BnB) is all right, I hope nothing happened to her'.

I told her that in fact, the owner of the BnB had had such a successful season that she was taking a vacation. Again, Forest Hill seemed shocked.

After searching for two hours for this alternative, heated BnB, only to find it closed and us homeless for the night, and our afternoon in Connemara wasted, it was beyond frustrating that this Forest Hill proprietor acted as shocked as we were that the BnB which she had 'called' was closed.

We found another very lovely BnB and had a great time, so my recommendation would be to avoid Forest Hill (and the accompanying frustration/temperature!) and travel to some of the other very nice BnBs in the area.

This was a very long post but I hoped to be as detailed as possible for giving such a low rating.
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Date of stay: October 2014
5.0 of 5 bubblesValue
5.0 of 5 bubblesLocation
1.0 of 5 bubblesService
Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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Pat O wrote a review Oct 2014
5.0 of 5 bubbles
A wonderful place to start our Western Way trek. Delores was welcoming and drove us into the village for dinner. The next day she packed us a lunch and reviewed the day's map with us. A friendly, welcoming place. Classic Irelans!
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Date of stay: September 2014
5.0 of 5 bubblesRooms
5.0 of 5 bubblesLocation
5.0 of 5 bubblesService
Trip type: Travelled with family
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Kathi G wrote a tip Apr 2020
5 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
"No bad rooms in the house - all have lovely views of the town and the lake!"
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TravelingSarah85 wrote a tip Aug 2017
Portland, Oregon17 contributions1 helpful vote
5.0 of 5 bubbles
"Be prepared to very firm mattress"
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Filippo R wrote a tip Jan 2015
1 contribution5 helpful votes
5.0 of 5 bubbles
"All rooms are so pretty"
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Sdk66 wrote a tip Feb 2014
Birmingham, Alabama20 contributions14 helpful votes
5.0 of 5 bubbles
"All the rooms are excellent"
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John J wrote a tip Jul 2013
Louisville, Kentucky3 contributions5 helpful votes
5.0 of 5 bubbles
"The rooms were very nice, not a bad one to be had."
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€135 - €285 (Based on Average Rates for a Standard Room)
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IrelandWestern IrelandProvince of ConnachtCounty GalwayOughterard
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Which popular attractions are close to Forest Hill B&B?
Nearby attractions include Curraghduff Farm (5.5 km), Glengowla Mines & Family Farm Experience (4.9 km), and Aughnanure Castle (5.6 km).
What are some of the property amenities at Forest Hill B&B?
Some of the more popular amenities offered include free wifi, free breakfast, and a lounge.
What food & drink options are available at Forest Hill B&B?
Guests can enjoy free breakfast and a lounge during their stay.
Is parking available at Forest Hill B&B?
Yes, free parking is available to guests.
What are some restaurants close to Forest Hill B&B?
Conveniently located restaurants include Connemara Greenway Restaurant, Powers Thatched Bar & Restaurant, and Camp Street Cafe.
Are there any historical sites close to Forest Hill B&B?
Many travellers enjoy visiting Aughnanure Castle (5.6 km).
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