Me and my wife stayed here for a long weekend in July, we travelled by train from Newry and when we arrived at Connolly Station we took a taxi to the hotel which was reasonable for price, on our return we walked, it was only about 15 mins, The hotel check in was simple and we dropped our bags in the room, the room i thought was fairly small eg the bathroom door couldn't fully open because it caught the bed. The bed was comfortable and the room was quiet at night and there were tea making facilities available. After getting ready we went to the lounge for a drink, table service at that time because of covid, the bar area is very nice with comfortable seats. The hotel is well located on the south of the Liffey just on the edge of the Temple Bar area so near plenty of pubs and restaurants. We went to the Dublinia museum which was only about 15/20 mins walk and found it very informative and would recommend for a few hours visit. A lot of the public park areas unfortunately were taken over by public drinking which could be off putting and we noticed a lot of blatent drug use in public areas and also one night a big disturbance outside Fitzgeralds on Aston Quay, what we also noticed was the dirt of the city with lots of litter and even the amount of bags plastic bottles etc floating in the Liffey itself as well as that the unkempt streets with weeds and grass growing ,small things to some maybe but very easy to control if the effort was put in. In saying all that we had a good weekend the pubs were open and the weather was sunny and warm so everyone was drinking outside which created a really good atmosphere in the pedestrianised places. Conclusion, would i go back, answer yes Dublin is a great city if expensive but probably I would base myself somewhere else .