A lot of the new pub licences in the past decade have been hotels. I suspect if I worked out actual figures we'd find that there has been a noticeable reduction in "traditional" drinking spaces, a lot of replacement with hotel bars.
And these days, those hotel bars are often smaller than they used to be, and not really intended to be used by the public. Some notable cases of this include when I felt I had to buy dinner in 1014503 Hotel 7, or feeling like I'd snuck in to get to the bar in the original 1013980 Premier Inn
So it was quite a surprise to find a vast combined bar and restaurant in the fairly new Iveagh Garden Hotel; with no expectation that I was a hotel guest and no subterfuge required.
Harcourt Street hotels usually have larger, very public bars; albeit with exceptions (see next review for not large, and 1004979 Stephens Green Hotel for one were the bar is a bit buried), so maybe this shouldn't be a surprise.
There isn't a nightclub here, however; so I don't imagine there is huge amounts of outside trade coming in. Bar is reasonable for a hotel, in terms of range, price and atmosphere; and you don't need to get a door code to use the toilets like is quite common in smaller hotel bars.
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