Twelfth Lock Hotel

I chose this hotel as it was close to the business I was meeting with, but the next time I'd rather use public transport. This place was dirty, loud (next to the railway, with trains from 5am to 11pm), dark and expensive, even per Dublin standards. The website mentioned a restaurant, but it was closed. Absolutely sub-par experience, avoid at all cost!

Never wrote a review before…felt I had to in this case. Just finished a two night stay. The place was warm at least….but the concrete wall 8 feet away from my window with trains screeching past was a new experience. All this could have been forgiven but for the fact that this currently is not a hotel in any real sense. It’s a room only type hostel. Bit tatty and tomb like underground/downstairs rooms. I travelled 8 hours and arrived at 9.30 pm to find that there is no restaurant or bar…they are closed!! out into the night then to try and find something to eat….then in the morning no breakfast. So in the wet I set out to find a coffee and scrambled eggs. Thankfully I found a great place 15 mins drive away. Feel conned…would never stay here again.

I stayed for work. As I checked in I asked if my room was quiet and was reassured that the 'Trains stop at 11pm', what they didn't tell me was that they start again at 03:45. My room was about 10ft away from the railway line. It was very warm and no air conditioning. I couldn't open the window as I was on the ground floor looking out onto a concrete wall with beer kegs stacked outside. Along the wall ran motion sensor floodlights which came on periodically throughout the night . I wish I could give a good review, but I left the hotel exhausted.