travel42 Hotel Review: The K Club

The K Club travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

On the N7, 27 kilometers west of Dublin (40 minutes without traffic), this top-drawer operation is the most formal and expensive hotel in the countryside, a traditional powerhouse that ranks above the Dromoland and Ashford castle hotels—even the bar has glittering chandeliers.

This early-19th-century dynamo is a sprig of France rooted in the clover-green Irish countryside. It was constructed in 1831 as a tribute to the great Chateaus of Bordeaux and the w...