Castle Grove Country House Hotel  

Excellent evening meal but disappointing breakfast. Room could have been warmer.

magnificant time - but all too brief. We will be back

We loved this hotel. Set in beautiful grounds, the building is charming and the staff extremely friendly and helpful. The rooms are full of antique furniture (perhaps too much in places), and the decor a little 'floral' for my taste, but overall a super place to spend a weekend. Food delicious!

Staff and service very good. Room for improvement with the upstairs decor. Quiet and peaceful. Lovely house in a fairly good location.

I loved the ambiance, the country house feel, the friendly welcome and excellent service. The food was irish country house food at it's very best. I appreciated flowers and fruit in our suite, which was spacious and elega.ntly furnished. The bed was very comfortable with very soft sheets. The dining room is beautiful.Our stay was very relaxing and I would heartily reccomend this hotel and will be back. Finally, the grounds are beautiful and the view of Lough Swilly enticing.......a fantastic setting.

Personally my only drawback was the rather old fashioned bathroom, and I dislike carpeted bathrooms and prefer modern and tiled......but it was very clean and really no problem.

A real gem ! - historic irish country mansion set in wonderful grounds - very comfortable, spacious, high-quality accommodation - all thoughtfully restored yet unpretentious - splendid drawing and dining rooms - superb cuisine - warm welcome and very hospitable hosts - great base for touring Donegal - now clearly signposted from Letterkenny and easy to find - a memorable tranquil experience - and great value - we will certainly return !!!

I just wish I had discovered this place sooner !

Elegant settings. Intimacy and personal welcome and service. Surprisingly good food and the chef took a personal interest to make sure that the diners were enjoying his food. Proximity to Letterkenny if you want a bit of shopping or more lively nightlife. Very close to the Glenveagh National Park and the beautiful Donegal coastline. I felt that I couldn't have picked a better location for my stay.

At first, I thought it was a bit 'old', but then, that is precisely its charm and I wouldn't have it any other way.

L'accueil et le charme irlandais, très bon diner et excellent petit-déjeuner, la classe!

Beautiful setting and interior.

De gastvrijheid, vriendelijkheid en behulpzaamheid van de eigenaresse is ons uitstekend bevallen.

De badkamers zijn erg oud. Maar aan de ene kant hoort dit ook bij de romantiek van een huis uit 1651!

The warmth of the welcome. It seemed as if by staying with them, we were giving the pleasure of our company and this was reciprocated. Excellent food, well prepared and presented.

We were given a fantastic executive room though we had booked a standard. The price was really great. Wonderful countryside location. Excellent and professional staff.

We expected something more from breakfast: other comparable places had a buffet one. Though we had read the reviews and we were very careful following directions, we missed the almost unreadable final sign and took sometime to locate the hotel. Please change that sign, it's in a bad place! Read!

Castle Grove is, what it's title suggests, a Country House Hotel. The tree-lined drive from the gate to the house is a gentle, ten-minute walk. Castle Grove has not got the shiny, technological brashness of the international hotel-chain variety, and all the better for that. It is an inviting country home where one is welcomed with genuine, soft-voiced Donegal friendliness. It is a family's much-loved home. Lest anyone fear intrusiveness or nosiness in this, fear not: the attention and warmth is genuine and discreet. Breakfast in one's room, served with quietness and care, is the ultimate, restorative pampering. The drawing rooms and elegant dining room are graceful: the furniture is comfortable and well lived in; the polished mahogany reflects bowls of fresh flowers; the white table linen is crisp, and candlelight twinkles in the wine- glasses: all sets the scene for food lovingly and expertly prepared as for distinguished guests - guests who are friends. While I waited for dinner in the red drawing room, the lady of the house, herself, lit a great fire of logs in the huge grate; as the fire took, Mary told me something of the centuries of history which this house holds in its every corner. As the fire danced and the daylight faded, Lough Swilly sat across the meadows and woodland, below the high, watching windows, and kept its ancient secrets. There are no discos....