The Briers

A nice quiet place to stay, very dig friendly, great breakfast. It's only a few minutes drive outside Newcastle, but it is in the country , and very quiet.

Superb warm welcome from Darren. So friendly and couldn't do enough to help. We were arriving late and leaving early. Darren made sure an excellent self service breakfast was available so we could eat well before the usual breakfast time. It was our first time in Northern Ireland and we can't wait to go back. Such friendly people. Look forward to staying at the Briers again in the future.

First the positives, absolutely beautiful room, no expense has been spared on the furniture and the fixtures and fittings, everything was top notch, couldn't fault any of the furnishings. Beautiful big bathroom, lovely big bed. The negatives and this is not really the fault of Briers country House but we stayed only for 1 night as we wanted to climb Slieve Donard on our way to a wedding on the west coast of Ireland (Westport) , the weather was heavy rain all night and because we slept in a room with a velux window it was deafening, we had no sleep all night, then to top it all just as the rain stopped and we were dropping off (around 7am) the alarm went off and didn't stop for about 15 mins. As far as I understand the owners are not on the premises and noone knew what to do. I also didn't like the breakfast, I understand it was a 'help yourself' but it would be better (in my opinion) if you could be offered a hot breakfast. I probably wouldn't stop again unless I knew I was in a ground floor room.