LEONARDO HOTEL DUBLIN CHRISTCHURCH

This is a decent enough hotel with an excellent central location. It is 5-10 min walk from a Luas (tram) stop and several buses run past outside. It is right accross from Christchurch Cathedral and the Dublina museum, both of which are worth a visit, and it is a 10min walk from Temple Bar, so over all well placed.

Price wise it isn't bad and the staff are all friendly enough.

We never ate there, but did have a few drinks in the bar which were OK.

There are quite a few things I wasn't keen on though. Some pretty serious issues, others just more of an embuggerance. Overall I probably would stay there again if I had to, but would probably rather not, at least not unless they fixed some the issues on my list below, and train attention to detail in their staff.

Overall the hotel was a bit tired in places, with frayed couches in the bar etc,. There was nothing major like holes in the walls, but with all the compitition in the area, I feel they could do better.

Problems:
Bathroom door: painted so much it is a struggle to close. It will close, but you have to put some serious weight into it. That is OK for me, I can close it properly, but my other half can't. She just has to close it over as far as it will go and hope I don't accidentally walk in.

Ceiling paint on tiles in the bathroom. OK, it's white paint on white tiles, but it's there, and not just a little bit. It's not hard to wipe if a mistake when painting. It is piss poor attention to detail to leave paint on the tiles in multiple places.

The tile grout has gotten a bit yellow over time, so they have painted the grout white to freshen it up a bit. Not an issue per-say, but they have left paint on tiles either side of the grout line l and only painted about 5ft high, leaving 2-3 ft of tired yellow looking grout for anyone over 5ft tall to see.

Bath a bit too narrow to stand in with your back to shower. Not a lot they can do with that except change it for a wider one, but it's a much older style of bath which isn't great if you enjoy a nice long shower with the water beating down on the bakc of your neck and shoulders.

Room WAY too warn. Even with radiator turned off. Double glazing window with triple glaze sliding panel, both of which could be opened, but out room faced out onto a noisy on main road so we couldn't really open the window or it would be too noisy to sleep. With no AC or fan etc and a thick duvet, it made for 3 nights of uncomfortable sleep where I was constantly too warm.

Elsewhere in the hotel the attention to detail wasn't any better than that of the room decorators. On my last night I ordered a glass of red wine from the bar, but when the barman handed over the glass it had 2 clear lipstick marks on it. I asked for a different glass and he obliged, pouring the original wine down the sink and getting me a new glass. I watched him pick it up, inspect it, fill it and hand it over. This one wasn't clean either! To be fair, the 2nd one only had a smear from what looked like not being dried properly by a towel, but FFS, I just complained about a dirty glass, you would think he could make sure the next one was actually clean.

Baggage drop. When we arrived we dropped our bags at reception. When we came back for them they just let me into the baggage room to find my bags. At no point did they verify that the bags I had in my hand matched the ticket numbers I had handed over. I assume they do this to everyone, so there is nothing to stop someone taking the wrong bag (in error or malice)

No room safe.

People slamming doors late at night again, not the hotels fault that another guest slammed a door, but the could fit slow-close devices on all the doors to mean that can't happen.

Busy main road. Even with all windows shut you could still hear regular blue light services flying up the street. Not much they can do, but be warned it is a busy road, so if you get a room at the front it might be noisy.

TV reception was spotty and no way to get the guide up as you had to "set the time", but no way to set the time as you couldn't access settings.

Great place in the heart of Dublin.

Staff were sweet. Breakfast was great and steak for dinner was one of a kind. Not far from Dublin hop on hop off bus tours which brought convenience

An absolutely amazing hotel! We stayed for a friend's birthday and the lengths the staff went to make it special were fantastic! The rooms were clean and so cosy with a lovely view of the cathedral. Every member of staff we saw was cheerful and chatty. Breakfast was delicious, one of the best i have had at a hotel. It was hot and fresh and checked often to make sure nothing was running low, with fresh smoothies and a large selection of fruit and other items too! I would absolutely recommend this hotel to anyone, and cannot wait to come back!

Breakfast is a English setting with eggs, tomatoes, Portobello mushroom, potatoes. Staff is very friendly too!