• No booking fee
  • No hidden extras
  • Instant confirmation
  • Secure shopping
  • 100% Irish
  • Friendly customer service
  • Happy customers

And remember, we're just a phone call away on 1850 668668

Hunter's Hotel

Rathnew, Wicklow

Beside the now little-travelled old coaching road from Dublin to Wicklow, which still winds and twists through wooded countryside, stands Hunter's Hotel. It has always been an inn. A cobbled entrance leads to a graceful Georgian doorway, and into a red-and-black tiled hall, worn by the feet of travellers, and polished to a high gloss. A creaking staircase leads up to a wide landing, decorated with painted china basins and ewers, once in daily use. In the hall hangs a pair of enormous ox horns, brought home by a relative from the Boer War.
Bedrooms are small and simple, with plain furniture, pretty flowered wallpaper, and gleaming tilted bathrooms. Mine looked straight out into the branches of a huge flowering magnolia, and was snug and neat.
The bar is large and full of light, a pleasant place to sit and chat over a drink or a snack. It overlooks the hotel's glorious prize-winning gardens, in which flower beds and velvety lawns lead down to the river, overhung with big trees.

Welcome Picture of Hunter s Hotel
Welcome Picture of Hunter s Hotel

Rollover Images To Enlarge

Description

In the bar hangs a turn-of-the-century photograph of an uncle of the owner, showing him proudly leading the Prince of Wale's horse, which he had trained, and which had just won the Grand National at Aintree.
The restaurant has a low beamed ceiling, and is alway busy, since local people as well as hotel guests enjoy the excellent home-cooking. Bowls of vegetables from the inn garden are put on the table for you to serve yourself, there are hearty old-fashioned puddings, and the menu changes daily.
It is rare to find a hotel which is in such lovely surroundings, with such a feeling of a continuing tradition of hospitality.