Aspect Hotels are delighted to announce you can now earn reward points every time you stay at our hotels in Kilkenny and Dublin Park West.
Whether you’re staying for business or pleasure, get more from your visit. Collect hotel loyalty reward points for free nights stay with us (or another participating hotel) or use your points for One For All Gift Cards (perfect in the run-up to Christmas).
It’s free to join Rewards From Us to You and you can enrol online or with reception at your hotel.
With 15 points for every Euro spent you’ll quickly build up hotel loyalty card points. If your room rate is €60 per night after 6 nights you’ll already have enough points for a €15 One For All voucher to spend.
You can earn hotel points on all room rates booked on our Aspect Hotel websites or reservations made by calling the hotel directly. Discover more about Rewards From Us to You on the website or speak to our hotel reception team.
If there is anything us Irish are good at, it is celebrating Halloween to the fullest extent and making sure to scare the living wits out of each other as the occasion calls for. Halloween has for a long time and will continue to be a memorable date on the Irish calendar as one of the, if not the greatest horror novels in the world was written by an Irish man of Dublin descent. Bram Stoker was the critically acclaimed author behind “Dracula”, which apart from the Bible is the bestselling book in the world! So to pay respect to all the Frankenstein’s, Vampires, and Zombies, Aspect Hotel Parkwest have done a bit of researching into everything our visitors can get up to this Halloween.
Firstly we have the “Ghastly Glasnevin Exhibition” This is a history tour of all the horrific and gruesome tales of death and burial in Dublin during the 19th century. If you’re interested in tales of grave robbers, rituals and burial customs and there practical reason for being used then this is the horror tour for you!
We have also got a Halloween family fun day for you and the family. The day consists of seasonal fun and a wild trail! Later on in the evening there will be a live Ceili and also a scarecrow building activity to par take in where you can build a scarecrow or be the scarecrow!
What would you do if you won €10.000.000 with Euromillions???
For myself I know what I would do! But what do other people want to do with such an amount of money? To find out we’ve asked this to our friends on Facebook and this is the result:
- Let me first win! and will see afterwards. !!
Lol - quite a few new handbags.
- I’m going out now and I’ll buy a ticket Euromillons !!
- I would have a big big party !!! lol !!!”
- i’ll pay my debts off
- I’ll buy Astoria Hotel!
From this comments the idea came up to play and share. Following text was posted on Facebook with a few friends fast enough to join us and play.
“Astoria Hotel Antwerp
OK! Good news! Astoria will play Euromillions for you tonight! The first 5 numbers that our friends choose will be played tonight, ok? Shoot! I am waiting for 5 numbers between 1 and 50… We need also 2 numbers between 1 and 11 for the stars! Let’s hope we can share tonight 146.000.000!!!!!”
Good luck to Dimitry, Alfonso, Gregory, Astoria, Rosi, Myriam and Victoria! They have picked each 1 number to get lucky together tonight.
If you want to join us for the next Euromillions, please feel free to pick numbers next Friday afternoon! For sure we are “Happy Friends” with or without winning! Money is nice but does not make happy! Only for tonight then…
Forget the summer, lets finally roll into September and prepare for long evenings wrapped up warmly in snug coats and leisurely strolls through the city. Well thats not all there is to look forward to as Dublin is still packed with events to enjoy in the start of the autumn.
This month Dublin plays host to the All-Ireland GAA final. On September 4th, Tipperary will be playing against the notorious Kilkenny Cats in the All-Ireland Hurling Final, it will be a match not to be missed. And on the 18th of September Croke Park will host the GAA Football Final, between Dublin and Kerry! This year we have seen a new side to the Dubs and we will certainly be cheering them on! The All Ireland Finals are a celebration of the indigenous sport that is celebrated worldwide. Every year thousands travel from Canada, America, Australia, England etc. Just to see their home county play
`The “Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival” will be hosted in Dun Laoghaire and all genres of books will be explored at this magnificent event, including fantastic selection of children’s books so bring the family and make a day of it. Aspiring writers can also enjoy the event as there will be a series of creative writing classes. Guest appearences will be made by acclaimed authors such as Darren Shan and Cathy Cassidy
The Dublin Festival of Fashion also takes place this September. The fashion event is organised by the Dublin Improvement District. It will be packed with models, and world famous stylist to help you achieve your own personal look! An Event not to be missed as it will be enjoyable for all the family!
Of course there is plenty more occuring in Dublin, just visit our Local Area page for inspiration on stuff to keep you and your family busy during your stay.
Just because the summer is nearing an end, that does not mean there is still not a great deal of events occurring in Dublin for our guests at Aspect Hotel Parkwest to enjoy.
Movie Fest is Ireland’s newest film festival taking place in Dublin’s Cineworld on August 13th and 14th. The weekend will be made up of preview footage, behind the scenes clips and recorded greetings from actors and directors. The calendar of events also includes exclusive trailers from upcoming blockbusters such as ‘Twilight: Breaking Dawn’, ‘Batman: The Dark Knight’, ‘The Avengers’ and ‘The Amazing Spiderman’. Along with all that we will be screening three movie premieres each day. On Saturday the 13th of August “Fright Night” will be shown, starring Colin Farrell, Anton Yelchin and David Tennant. “The Change Up” – From the writers of “The Hangover’ – Starring Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman. There will also be a mystery screening which will be showing a highly anticipated movie – not yet in Irish cinemas. This surprise film is tipped for Oscars and is set to be one of the best movies of 2011. Don’t Miss it. On the 14th of August, “Cowboys and Aliens” will be shown – Starring Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford. “30 Minutes or Less” – From the director of ‘Zombieland’ – Starring Jessie Eisenberg and Danny McBride.; There will also be another mystery screening – this movie has the most exciting trailer we have seen this year and looks set to be a roller-coaster ride from start to finish. A day ticket costs €22.50 and gives you access to all three movies played on that given day, plus access to the studio presentations with trailers and preview footage. Tickets can be purchased directly from Cineworld’s box office.
PLAY summer music festival is one for all of the family. If you ever wished that you could bring your kids to hear some fantastic live music, then The Ark’s PLAY festival is for you. PLAY features five weekends of entertaining afternoon concerts for families, with extremely talanted musicians including Julie Feeney, the musical genius behind the hit song Impossibly Beautiful, fiddle player Zoë Conway (described as “incredible” by RTÉ’s Gay Byrne), the hilarious Size2Shoes, of whom Stephen Spielberg is a big fan, and many more. You can also fill up those summer-break weekdays with The Ark’s jam-packed programme of music workshops, which let children aged 2 to 12 the process in creating music, even if they’ve never picked up an instrument before. Or pop in and explore The Ark’s free electronic sound installations? Perfect if you’ve ever wondered what a can of baked beans sounds like or fancy playing a real drum kit without touching it!
There will also be ABSOLUT Fringe is Ireland’s largest multi-disciplinary arts festival to help finish off the summer with a bang! Now in its seventeenth year, the festival stages up to six hundred and fifty events in over forty venues, and around one hundred and fifty thousand people have at least one Fringe experience during the Festival. For sixteen days the festival transforms Dublin into a ‘dream factory’, an exposé of great creative talent from around the globe. It is a platform for the best new, emerging Irish arts companies and a showcase for the best contemporary theatre and dance shows touring internationally. For artists in Ireland, the Fringe facilitates an opportunity to innovate, to cross disciplines and boundaries and to find new ways and places to create and showcase work.
The Aspect Hotels team are delighted to introduce you to our fantastic mobile friendly websites. We understand how busy you are and your need to access information on the go so if you need to book Kilkenny hotels on your mobile the new sites makes it easier than ever before!
Our sites have been carefully optimised for portable devices. As well as having all the important information easily accessible and laid out for the smaller screen, our mobile sites extra features and are location aware to give you turn by turn directions to get to us. We’ve also included some of the top local attractions near the hotels so if you’re taking the family to Drayton Manor our hotel mobile site will direct you straight to the park entrance effortlessly.
Even better, there is no need to go to the hassle of downloading custom apps – our site can detect when you’re using your phones browser and will automatically select the mobile version for you. If you need more detail (perhaps information about weddings or to see the restaurant menu) you have the option to flip from the mobile to full site and back again seamlessly.
We hope you find our mobile websites useful and if you’ve any suggestions or ideas you’d like to see please contact us or leave a comment below.
We hope you had as much fun as we did during the St Patrick’s festivities? As people celebrated across the world our friends at Tourism Ireland were hard at work using St Patrick’s as a springboard for their 2011 promotions. This year they outdid themselves showcasing the island of Ireland with spectacular events.
The €28 million campaign has reached millions of potential visitors for individuals to travel organisers and businesses. It has been estimated interest in the events generated the equivalent of €10 million in media exposure. Some of our favourite events included:
- Greening landmark attractions including the Empire State Building, Sydney Opera House, the fountain outside the White House, the Burj Al Arab and even the Moulin Rouge became the Moulin Vert for the day!
- Showing off Irish produce to the French with free samples and cookery demonstrations in Paris
- Flashmobs of Irish dancers descending on unsuspecting commuters in stations from Sydney to Sweden
- The best St Patricks Day Parade was in Dublin but New York and Munich (to name a few) put on a great show as well
For our money there was no better place to be than at the home of St Patrick’s Day celebrations – here in Ireland. If you didn’t make it this year we hope to see you next time!
This St Patricks week has been a busy one at Aspect Hotels.
Our hotel in Tamworth ran a Facebook competition to win one of their fantastic family hotel breaks to Drayton Manor Theme Park. They asked fans to creatively show why they should win the amazing prize and were inundated with entries. Their fans certainly are a creative bunch with the hotel received everything from photos to jokes to videos and the team had a really tough time choosing but in the end it was the fantastic poem by Grannybiker Mse that clinched it.
Everyone has been so impressed they’re planning a new exclusive competition on the Aspect Hotel Tamworth Facebook page very soon.
Staying with Facebook competitions, how would you like to win complimentary overnight stay at top hotel for Kilkenny Cats Laugh Festival? All you need to do is send the Aspect Hotel Kilkenny your best joke – whichever the general manager judge the funniest will be the lucky winner! (Please keep your jokes clean though)
Its glorious weather today, if you’ve not booked a break away for the bank holiday there are some fantastic last minute deals available.
Celebrate St Patricks Day in Kilkenny at the Aspect Hotel Kilkenny. Enjoy overnight stay in either Double or Twin room, 3-course dinner and full Irish breakfast the next morning – total price for 2 adults is just €80 including tax! As an extra bonus, when you book online you also get a voucher for a complimentary drink during your stay, either to enjoy with dinner or just relaxing in the bar.
How about visiting Dublin to watch the parade in real life? The Aspect Hotel Park West is perfect if you’re driving up to Dublin with easy access to the M50, leave the car with us and hop on the regular direct bus services from outside the front doors directly to the Quays (takes about 25 mins).
Whatever you get up to this St Patricks Bank Holiday we hope you have a fantastic time! Sláinte
Delighted to announce that we’ve just launched Aspect Hotels in Ireland. Formerly Days Hotels, Aspect Hotel Kilkenny and Aspect Hotel Dublin Park West form part of Ireland’s newest hotel brand. We have plans to expand across Ireland and the UK, so watch this space!
This month Days Hotels Ireland partner hotel the Days Inn Talbot Street has posted two fantastic reviews of Dublin Restaurants on their blog.
Our colleagues have been working hard trying new city centre places to eat (at least they call it work!) and if you’re looking for cheap restaurants in Dublin you can’t go wrong with their expert guide.
With international acts including Leona Lewis, Cirque Du Soleil, Lady Gaga and Michael Flatley all due to play this summer there is something for everyone at the O2 Arena Dublin. If you’re lucky enough to be going to one of the amazing O2 Dublin concerts the Days Inn Talbot St have drawn up a special restaurant post to help you find the perfect Docklands dinner venue. The extensive review covers all the best restaurants near the O2 Dublin is well worth a gander if you are heading out that way and includes suggestions for a quick snack, pre-theatre dinners and special treats.We look forward to introducing you to more of the great posts on Ireland
I look forward to introducing you to more of the great events and discoveries to help you make the most of your holiday in Ireland.