This hotel, formerly a Westin and named as such, had a specific rather than generic name applied to it in recent years; a process fraught with danger as whoever doing the naming didn't realise that the name of the street it sits on is a tad contraversial these days - the initial announcement of it as the Westmoreland Hotel was backed out from.
As it was changing category within Marriot from a Westin to an Autograph Collection hotel, a new name still needed to be picked - so they looked to the other side of the building and called it the College Green Hotel instead.
Formerly the headquarters of the Provincial Bank of Ireland, one of the constituents of the 1960s formed Allied Irish Banks; much of the ornamentation inside the hotel relates to its past banking days. The primary bar, with relatively limited opening hours, is in former vaults and is certainly one of the more interesting places to go for a pint - although its also one of the most expensive around, at €8 at time of visit
I'd been put off trying this for a long time as there are often uniformed doormen, and the attitude of five star hotels towards people wearing skate shoes and tshirts can sometimes be a little bit off-putting; but I would assume that many of their actual hotel residents would be dressed similarly these days; and the doorman was nowhere to be seen, so in I went.
I shouldn't have had any concerns. A comment on Instagram claims this is a decent place for a quiet Christmas time pint, a hard enough thing to find and something I'm loathe to reveal my own locations for, lest they become as mobbed as everywhere else - but someone else put it out in the open this time!
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