We had gone to Dublin to celebrate the New Year and could hardly believe it when the hotel bar closed 5 minutes after midnight. As you can imagine we were very, very dissapointed. There was a vending machine which sold alcholic beverages, but only took coins and the hotel reception was not able to give residents change to use in the machine. I would have expected (under the circumstances) the bar to have stayed open later, if only for residents.
EXCELLENT
A decent base for touring Dublin.