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Eating & Sleeping

Brookhaven House, run by a friendly family, with
Killarney 1 spick-and-span rooms, comfy beds and a sunny
sea-view breakfast room.
4 Aghadoe
Heights Hotel Luxury Hotel €€€
(%064-663 1766; www.aghadoeheights.com; Sneem 8
Aghadoe; d/f/ste from €249/319/390, bar mains 4 Parknasilla Resort & Spa Hotel €€
€15-29.50; hbar 11am-9.30pm; piWs)
A huge, glassed-in swimming pool overlooking (%064-667 5600; www.parknasillaresort.
the lakes is the centrepiece of this stunning com; Parknasilla; d/f/ste from €139/179/229;
contemporary hotel, but you can also soak piWs) This hotel has been wowing guests
up the views from the bar and Lake Room (including George Bernard Shaw) since 1895 IRELAND 24 RING OF KERRY
Restaurant (mains €21-38; h6.30-9.30pm; with its pristine resort on the tree-fringed
c), both of which are open to nonguests, as shores of the Kenmare River with views to the
is the decadent spa, with 11 treatment rooms Beara Peninsula. From the modern, luxuriously
and four-chamber thermal suite. Heavenly beds appointed bedrooms to the top-grade spa,
have memory foam mattresses. private 12-hole golf course and elegant
restaurant, everything here is done just right.
It’s 3km southeast of Sneem.
Killorglin 2
5 Bianconi Irish €€ Kenmare 9
(%066-976 1146; www.bianconi.ie; Bridge St; 5 Horseshoe Pub Food €€
mains €14.50-25; h8am-11.30pm Mon-Thu,
8am-12.30am Fri & Sat, 6-11pm Sun; Wc) (%064-664 1553; www.thehorseshoekenmare.
Bang in the centre of town, this Victorian-style com; 3 Main St; mains €14-26; hkitchen 5-10pm
pub has a classy ambience and an equally Thu-Mon) Flower baskets brighten the entrance
classy menu. Its spectacular salads, such as to this popular gastropub, which has a short but
Cashel blue cheese, apple, toasted almonds excellent menu that runs from Kenmare Bay
and chorizo, are a meal in themselves. Upstairs, mussels in creamy apple cider sauce to braised
newly refurbished guest rooms (doubles from Kerry lamb on mustard mash.
€110) have olive and truffle tones and luxurious 5 Tom Crean Fish & Wine Irish €€
bathrooms (try for a roll-top tub).
(%064-664 1589; http://tomcrean.ie; Main
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4 Coffey’s River’s Edge B&B € St; 2-/3-course menus €25/29, mains €16.50;
(%066-976 1750; www.coffeysriversedge.com; h5-9.30pm Thu-Sun late-Mar–Dec; W) Named
Lower Bridge St; s/d €50/70; pW) You can sit for Kerry’s pioneering Antarctic explorer,
out on the balcony overlooking the River Laune and run by his granddaughter, this venerable
at this contemporary B&B with spotless spring- restaurant uses only the best of local organic
toned rooms and hardwood floors. Central produce, cheeses and fresh seafood, all served
location next to the bridge. in modern, low-key surrounds.
4 Virginia’s Guesthouse B&B €€
(%064-664 1021; www.virginias-kenmare.com;
Waterville 6
Henry St; s/d from €40/75; W) You can’t get
4 Brookhaven House B&B €€ more central than this award-winning B&B,
(%066-947 4431; www.brookhavenhouse. whose creative breakfasts celebrate organic
com; New Line Rd; d €80-120; pW) The pick local produce (rhubarb and blueberries in
of Waterville’s B&Bs is the contemporary season, for example, as well as fresh-squeezed
OJ and porridge with whiskey).

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