Brendan McGrath

Review of Tower hotel sligo

We stayed Sunday night of the bank holiday and wou...

We stayed Sunday night of the bank holiday and would safely say that we would never book there again. We were in room 309 with two small children and the noise coming from below our room was such a disturbance - loud pumping music, shouting. Right outside our window a huge clock chimed to mark the time - the stroke of midnight seemed to last forever! It would have been appreciated if we were told in advance about this. The four of us spent most of the night flouncing around in the beds unable to sleep. Before going to the room for the night we decided to eat. Service in the bar was atrocious - the waiter/bar-man was forgetful, haphazard and generally didn't seem to care one way or the other. When I asked if they were still doing food he said they were, but didn't know "if that was a good thing or a bad thing". We asked for soup, crisps and chicken sandwiches and he said they had no chicken, so we changed to ham. 15 minutes later he came back to say they had no ham, but had chicken, so we changed our order. About 20 minutes later he brought the sandwiches, but no soup - miwadi instead of a jug of plain water. At this stage I didn't even bother about asking for the soup - if the sloppy, over-buttered sandwiches were anything to go by, the soup was bound to be poor. My husband would have been over-charged too if he had not queried the bill. The following morning breakfast was served promptly and there were 4 cereal choices, so no problems there. The breakfast staff were friendly and efficient. However, the grapefruit was sour and the conveyer belt toaster was set too high and burnt the toast. The coffee was good and strong (boy did we need that after the night we had spent) and we were facing a Sligo Feis Ceoil competition and a return journey to Kildare that morning. Next time we come to Sligo, we will definitely stay elsewhere.