Hotel berhampiran West Kerry Agricultural Show Society, Kerry County

We were looking forward to our stay ... Arrived Monday evening where a function for a group was in process.. we selected the hotel as. It was out of town, appeared away from noise of the town… paying at the highest room rate of the season therefore had high expectations.. sadly the opposite. Our room was extremely noisy above the bar & restaurant and beside the guest function toilet .. We were told all bar and lounge areas unavailable to us due to the function & recommended restaurants in the town for dinner ... sadly all closed in town as a Monday evening... others booked out due to options limited We were not offered a room away from the noise .. which as there was a function below .. would have been appreciated The room was adequate but bed was extremely hard … luckily the noise stopped at 10 pm Woken at 7 am with music and smells from the below kitchen ... sadly over priced & disappointed

Such a beautiful clean hotel, within walking distance of the town. Great facilities for all the family. Spa is beautiful and relaxing, especially the hot tub outside, looking out over Dingle Bay. All the staff were amazing especially Danny, Graham, Sharon and staff in the Spa. They made us so welcome and looked after us during our stay. We will definitely be returning.

Benner's is an absolute winner of a small, in town hotel. We arrived to a very warm welcome and three extremely spacious, clean and well laid out twin bedrooms with more than capacious bathrooms. Book a room toward the rear as the festivities and live traditional music throughout the town will play on until the small hours. The beds and bed linens are super comfortable, crisp and cool. Breakfast is brilliantly organised and there is pretty much nothing you could want nor anything that they won't make for you, from soft poached eggs with grilled tomatoes to the most perfect eggs benedict. There is also a very cosy, friendly bar to retreat into by the entrance. Benners does all the little things well, and not just well, but with a willing smile and a genuine pride in upholding a very high standard. Service is second to none (I stupidly mislaid my travel bag & passport at a restaurant the night before departure and the front desk had it safely back to me in no time) and the entire staff were attentive and more than happy to help. You also can't fault the location with Dingle and all it's great pubs and restaurants on your doorstep. Benners reminds of one of those great country town hotels of my childhood - updated for the age of the bucket lister. Part large B&B, part boutique hotel without the attitude - a real old school charmer. Highly recommended.

The tea/coffee with cakes upon arrival are a welcoming hug as you enter this charming home with views that are like a postcard. Phil meets you with her warm Irish smile and directs you to your well kept, comfortable room. We stayed downstairs in room 6. My family was in room 7 which is like a suite Micheal helps with the luggage with a joke or two and a kind sense of humor. Upon awakening you head toward the smells of fresh brewed coffee and breakfast to trump most all breakfasts in taste. I can say they made the one of the most delicious eggs Benedict’s in my history. Just around the corner is a pub and a walk along the magnificent cliffs. Phil lets you know all the things to do and how to get there. I loved my quiet time in the sitting room sipping coffee or Jameson and soaking in the views of the Atlantic, with sheep and ponies dotting the breathtaking landscape. Thank you Phil and Bernie for taking such good care of us.

Paudi and Anne were great hosts, friendly and very helpful, with lots of advance information before we arrived. The house is spacious, clean with a great layout, and perfect for families. Fantastic views of the sea from the patio. We had great times sitti

Christina O’Neil was an amazing host and made us feel right at home. In addition to a sparkling clean and comfortable room, the breakfast was wonderful and the view from the sun room was spectacular. Every morning during our delicious breakfast, Christina would ask us where we were off to for the day. 5 minutes later, she would bring us maps and tips to make our outing even more fantastic. The next time we saw her, she would ask about our day. I felt like I was staying with a dear aunt and she was a treasure!! I would highly recommend this hotel for the comfort and especially the hospitality.

My friend and I stayed there for 3 days as our beginning point to visit Kerry and Dingle area. Although old, it has everything you need, rooms are not very spacious, but the bathroom is modern and with all the facilities. Situated by the harbour, you are close to the nice walking by the sea. We’ve also had dinner there, and it was very good! The breakfast is including, you get large irish one, all kind of cereals. The only minus was for the not so nice salami and cheese you can get if you don’t fancy irish breakfast. Would come again!

PROS: Exceptionally clean. Everything seemed relatively new. Beautifully quiet. Nice warm room. Bedding, décor, and furnishings were all quite nice and well selected. CONS: No lounge or living room type common area for guests to sit comfortably with only one basic office chair provided in the room. Quite simply, it was too sp****ly furnished and appointed. Wi-fi was very sketchy (despite numerous reboots) and even stopped working completely for quite some time. The owner since claimed to have “super fast Wi-Fi” and that we should have addressed Wi-fi issues on-site, but we had no idea how to find the proprietor once he handed us the room keys and then basically disappeared for the duration of our stay (behind one of the closed doors on the property?). In short, we could not address the Wi-fi issues as he suggested. There were no TV’s in the entire property, which the owner stated was done on purpose to provide a “quiet and peaceful experience”. That seems nice enough, but without reliable working Wi-fi, the property became an isolated entrapment while we stared at the walls for several hours. A tomb is a “quiet and peaceful experience”, but that doesn’t necessarily make it pleasant. By normal Irish standards for hotels, 4:30 pm check-in and 10:30 am check-out times were quite late and early respectively, which is not common for Ireland as the owner subsequently claimed. We stayed in more than 30 hotels in Ireland and not one of them provided so little overall time. The typical turnaround from check-in to check-out (in all of 2100 miles we traveled around Ireland) was about an hour longer, one way or another. Responding to this, the owner quite rudely wrote (his quote) that we “would need to familiarise yourself with the basics before travelling somewhere”. To that, I can only say we are traveling 110 days this year in 16 different countries and have traveled to about 40 countries before. We plan our journeys exhaustively. I suggest rather than provide insulting remarks about our travel abilities, which are highly tuned and time-tested, perhaps this property’s management should listen to useful customer input about things which were not customary and inferior to competitors. Breakfast was an additional charge which rather goes against the ENTIRE notion of calling oneself a B&B. In retrospect, on closer examination, I concede the advertised rates for the property apparently included a non-breakfast option, but it’s important to note that is not always completely obvious when viewing typical hotel booking sites. Addressing this, the owner wrote that “it looks like you had no idea what you were booking and were not looking at the location or anything at that time”. Overlooking the blatant rudeness of that comment, our situation was actually quite the contrary, and we were keenly familiar with the location, having already spent a total of 25 days traversing the entire west coast of Ireland throughout both rural and urban areas before