DUBLIN'S latest Grade A four-star hotel is to open at Drury Street next
March. The £8 million Brooks Hotel is being developed by Galway businessman Charles Sinnott who has two hotels in the west of Ireland.
The Dublin hotel will have 80 bedrooms, a restaurant for 85 diners, a bar/brasserie to seat 60 people and a range of meeting rooms. The charges will be per bedroom rather than per person and will average £100 a night. A number of executive suites will also be available.
Mr Sinnott said the hotel would be aimed primarily at the discerning individual traveller. It would combine a premier location with facilities well up to what customers would expect in the next century. Computer points would be provided in the bedrooms and video facilities would be available on demand.
The hotel will be finished to a high specification. There will be two elevators serving the upper floors.
Brooks Hotel will be located directly opposite a municipal car-park in Drury Street which can accommodate 450 cars. The hotel is to offer special rates to hotel guests. There is also a second car-park in Drury Street located in the basement of the South City Market.
Mr Sinnott also owns two Galway hotels, the Connemara Coast, a four-star hotel in Furbo, and the Connemara Gateway, a three-star Grade A hotel in Oughterard. Brooks Hotel will be the latest of a large number of new hotels which have opened in the city centre over the past two years.
