€20m Loughrea hotel to open in summer

Date Published: 21-Feb-2008

WITH 100 bedrooms over five floors, a large function room, conference facilities and a spa, Loughrea’s newest hotel is set to create quite a stir beyond the East Galway town’s boundaries.

Brian Shaughnessy’s dream project is set to open in just over four months, and will target the family and business market with its accommodation, but also local people for everything else that it has to offer.

With a €20m price tag, Lough Rea Hotel and Spa on the Athenry Road looks like living up to all the expectations, with top consulting and management teams behind the project.

The finished product will share a common link with some of Ireland’s most prestigious places to stay, such as the Portmarnock Hotel and Golf Links, the Fitzwilliam Hotel, and the Park Plaza Hotel in Belfast, which are all managed by ‘Hotel Partners’.

And the man behind the success of the spa at Inchydoney Island Lodge has come on board as a consultant for Lough Rea Hotel’s own pampering annex.

The five year old brainchild of Craughwell man, Brian Shaughnessy, its life started as Saddlers nightclub and restaurant. When he made attempts to…………………..