Faithlegg Waterford

This hotel is beautiful and well maintained. The rooms in the holiday homes looked old but clean. The welcome gift (breakfast stuff and crisps) in the holiday home was a thoughtful touch. They have a nice pool, big jacuzzi, steam and sauna. The changing room is tiny. The spa treatments are so relaxing and a nice treat, i just suggest that they have a space/relaxation area where the client can rest after the treatment and have some tea similar to many other hotel spas. Overall I enjoyed my stay.

The hotel itself was nice and the staff were friendly however the price of food and alcohol was high and the quality of the food was low relative to the price. The staff were nice. Just the preparation and quality of the food was so low. A €35 steak should not be over cooked, dry and chewy. It also should not be served up along side instant mashed potato. My work canteen does better mashed potato and a similar steak. Its inexcusable. I wouldn't come here again unless someone I trusted told me the food was much better. Or maybe inflation means I am poor now and this is the best I can expect, in which case I should save my money for essentials like cloths, heating and food. Its a little worrying to find myself so poor. That was the experience of dining on this hotel. Feeling like the inflation crises was hitting me very very hard. Wait? See if things get better.

Got a really good value package including dinner and wine. The wine was beautiful and the food amazing. Best food Ive ever had in any hotel. Breakfast also really good with fresh juices included. Spa is really good and in an amazing location. Staff very nice. Amazing period venue and location. I would give this 5 stars except the room was absolutely roasting. They said they manually overrode the rads after I told them turning off the rads didn't work. Again this didn't seem to make any difference to the heat so had to have the window open and didn't sleep that well. Anyway apart from that highly recommended - sort the heat out to get 5 stars.

Stand out for me over my stay was how friendly the staff were. Absolutely lovely people. The room on the other hand left an unbelievable amount to be desired. Decor looked several decades out of date with a very damp section of carpet all the way around the bed. Only for how good the staff were I'd have given a much, much lower rating.