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Address:
47-48 lower gardiner st, City centre
, Dublin Dublin 1, Ireland
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Lonely Planet review
- Fionn Davenport
- Lonely Planet author
One of the northside's most exquisite little hotels, this place is simply fabulous. Each of the rooms is decorated differently - contemporary and minimalist in the new wing, velvety and whimsical in the Georgian section. The colourful dining room leads out to a small Japanese garden.Flamboyant, whimsical and super-stylish, it'll come as no surprise that this marvellous property (made up of two adjacent houses) has theatrical origins, as the two were the elegant family homes of playwrights Dion Boucicault (1829-1890) and Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), and each of the rooms bears the names of one of their plays. Hearn spent the latter years of his life in Japan, where he married a Japanese woman and took the name Yakumo Koizumi. His love of all things Japanese is reflected not just in the beautiful garden, but in rooms like No 328 - A Japanese Miscellany - all light wood floors and furniture. Rooms in the original house are more flamboyantly Victorian, such as the highly memorable Rip Van Winkle honeymoon suite (No 208), which has a four-poster bed draped in red velvet - and a working fireplace.
