Ice House Hotel in Ballina

We live locally and have eaten here several times and recommend it to our friends. Dinner last night was delicious as always and accommodations made for our dietary requirements so that we were able to relax and enjoy a really lovely meal. Service, as always, was outstanding

We stayed at the Ballina Manor and it’s a beautiful walk to the spa. The baths we fantastic and the relaxation room was wonderful as well. The restaurant offered a “new” kind of seafood chowder including muscles that were insanely good. The showers have great water pressure and excellent products!

When you have just visited Ballina's best restaurant (no. 1 on TA) that is a hard act to follow. The IH is an expensive place so you would expect top-notch food. Then again it is a hotel restaurant so perhaps expectations shouldn't be too high. There is a vegetarian menu, but there are two pasta mains and a vege-burger - not exactly pushing the boat out. We had soup, a goats cheese roulade that was basically a cylinder of - albeit nice - cheese and a stuffed pepper with chickpeas and tomato that is the sort of thing you could easily rustle up at home: it lacked any complexity of flavour. The pasta was way over-salted. A chocolate tart for dessert was very very sweet and the pastry on the tough side. The best vegetarian cooking in Ireland has moved well beyond what is being offered here, and there is potential for improvement in what is a calm and well-designed space. Service was OK but could also be a bit more focused.

Stunning hotel. Food amazing and had a lovely massage by Katrina. Excellent facility and just so peaceful

Myself and my young female companion stopped here for a spot of lunch recently. Food was scrumptious and quite reasonable considering how upmarket this place is. Stunning location excellent staff definitely be back

10/10, staff were lovely, the hotel was amazing, our room was lovely, very clean and the food was great. Spa was very relaxing also. Highly recommend.

Perfect location,staff excellent, accommodation excellent but atmosphere lacking bar uncomfortable and spartan.Layout of corridors and room directions mysterious. Finding bedroom like a treasure hunt.

Had a Blue Book voucher so we decided on the Ice House. They followed up with us leading up to the booking which was very professional. Free parking along the road beside the hotel, ideal. Check in was simple and very friendly. The lady that checked us in offered to help with bags. Very friendly lady. Room was very clean and well laid out. Plenty of space. View of the river with a sliding door to get the full effect. Dinner was very efficient, the starters are limited but the main was beautifully presented and tasted just as good. Desert was perfectly sized also! Drinks at the bar were very pricy, but to be expected in these places. All staff we interacted with were friendly and very helpful, a great bunch of people. Next morning, breakfast was a big disappointment, that's the reason it doesn't get the full 5 stars. We got 2 menus, one had a full Irish breakfast on it and the other was an excuse for a breakfast menu! When I ordered the full Irish breakfast, I was told there was none on the menu, they then checked and said we got the old menu, it had been changed recently. I ordered what could be described as half a breakfast and it was not cooked right at all. The mushroom was cold, the fried egg was half done. Lots of weird and wonderful sauces to lift the flavours but I'm a simple person that prefers good old fashioned breakfast! We stopped half way from our next destination for breakfast as we both left hungry. Overall it was a lovely place with lovely staff, spotlessly clean with a really nice dinner menu, breakfast was the only issue we had.

Wonderful time staying for my boyfriends birthday! Nice treat in the room upon arrival! The outdoor bath was amazing, great memories.