Maldron Hotel Portlaoise

10/10

Exceptional

21 Feb 2026

John

Nice room. Friendly staff. The bar is more a restaurant than a hotel bar.

8/10

Excellent

20 Jan 2026

Seán

Check in was quick and friendly
Room was clean,warm and spacious
Bar service was Okay
Overall a good experience

Self

10/10

Exceptional

21 Dec 2025

Eileen

Pleasant staff, clean warm room, well maintained.

Friends_and_family Family

6/10

Pleasant

01 Nov 2025

Raymond

We were there for 3 nights but a broken window latch never got fixed, allowing cold air to flow in. Also, we could hear the bedtime activities of the neighbors next to the wall by our bed. In addition we could hear every word and tossed item during an argument that our other neighbors had in the middle of the night. They were in a room attached to ours with an adjoining door. The restaurant was good as were the fast food options in the attached food court.

Leisure Partner

4/10

Poor

28 Oct 2025

Rodney

Quality of food for such an Hotel was quite poor

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

19 Oct 2025

Gabrielle

Beautiful hotel, lovely staff

Friends_and_family Friends

4/10

Poor

12 Oct 2025

Nadia

Parking & location good. Noise level and lack of noise dampening efforts is abysmal. Rooms don’t get cleaned - they make beds & empty what fits in the bin but nothing beyond that. If you order room service you better throw your dishes in the hallway or you’ll stare at them for your stay in your room.
As guests staying for 10 nights it was disgusting to not have the floors swept nor vacuumed & room counters not cleaned for the whole stay (we had to switch rooms so yay for us we got a clean room midway). Yuck, otherwise. Putting vacation guests in adjoining rooms with highway/construction workers who wake up at 0600hrs rather than with vacation guests that have booked together is just stupidity at best. Was the lowlight of our vacation & wouldn’t recommend. Avoid unless you’re maybe stopping in for one night for rest if you’re actually on a vacation especially if you’re used to N. American standards including MX mid range AI. Otherwise - a crap motel with a decor refresh. Bonus, if you have allergies to perfume/cologne, avoid this place… you’d choke upon entry and every time you come and go as front desk is competing with the duty free for unbreathable air.

Leisure Family

4/10

Poor

10 Oct 2025

Nichola L

Could not have been a less warm welcome from a chap visibly annoyed that we'd interrupted his phone scrolling. No information given, had to ask where breakfast would be (his tone suggested that was entirely obvious \"in the restaurant\")...

Signage not on walls, sparse cold reception, dirty stairs, the handrail was disgusting... and this looks to be a relatively new hotel too. Room was fine, clean and comfortable but beware of the heating clunking in from around 5am.... if you want a couldn't care less hotel then this is the place to stay.

We won't be staying again and frankly it's put us off Maldron altogether as a previously frequent guest on our very frequent teips to Ireland.

Partner

8/10

Excellent

03 Oct 2025

Eugene

Very comfortable room ... bar and breakfast staff lovely, food was a bit bland ... considering the price

8/10

Excellent

13 Sep 2025

Charlette

They were doing some renovations in the hallways so that was a bit messy. On the flip side, its nice that they are doing renovations. The room was a good size, clean, and comfortable. We never did get a chance to use the pool.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

24 Aug 2025

Tom

Overall a good hotel. Room 220 needs a new desk fan it’s falling to bits

10/10

Exceptional

21 Aug 2025

Lynne

Hotel spotless and easy to get to/from and park. Only stayed one night and had early start so didn’t get to use the pool or gym which was a shame as it looked great. Will def stay again next time we’re in Port Laois.

Business Family

2/10

Poor

20 Aug 2025

John

Wasnt a great start neen told room wasnt ready at 3 oclock when we got there...paid for breakfast but both mornings was little or no food left or out....

Friends_and_family Family

6/10

Pleasant

17 Aug 2025

Brendan

Fine, skip evening meal/drink

Clean and spacious family room - swimming pool & sauna good - skip evening meal/drink, staff in bar/restaurant not competent

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

17 Aug 2025

Verified traveler

Always wonderful. Staff fantastic. Restaurant dinner service a lttle disappointing

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

14 Aug 2025

Jessica

Great spot imo

The rooms interconnect so we were able to have our family of 5 stay together which was a big bonus. Most of the other properties gave us rooms near each other, not what I wanted. It’s ok since my kids aren’t toddlers but I preferred the connecting. So big bonus to stay here. Also the kids loved the breakfast here. Be aware the price has increased even though it is not listed. Still worth it though. I enjoyed the location near a launderette, gas station, and food options. Noise level and beds were good too. Room is spacious and I appreciated the table and chairs.

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

12 Aug 2025

Aynun

Good service and good morning breakfast!

6/10

Pleasant

10 Aug 2025

Verified traveler

Grand if nowhere else available

Run of the mill hotel, ok for a short overnight. Totally overpriced at €190 room only. The receptionist told us on both days we stayed that the restaurant was extremely busy so booking was essential, and on the 2nd night told us no tables were available between 7pm amd 8.30pm. On both occasions when we went to the restaurant during the \"busy/full\" times the restaurant was at about 25% capacity. Bizarre!

Business

8/10

Excellent

08 Aug 2025

Joseph

Overall a great experience. Very friendly, kind, helpful staff; Very clean hotel and room; Amazing breakfast! Full Irish breakfast and more!

One problem is the lack of A/C and ventilation in the room. Not having A/C seems common in Ireland, which makes sense since it hardly ever gets very warm. However, the room still got pretty stuffy with 4 people in it, and the window only opened a few inches, plus we could not leave it open all night since we were on the first floor, with a flat roof right there, where birds or anything else that could fit in a small space could easily get in, given that there are no screens. The fan was helpful but it was still too warm and stuffy to sleep with any covers on.

Also the pool was fantastic, but we initially had trouble accessing it with our kids after finding out that no children were allowed in after 7PM—which is right when we arrived. This policy was not clearly explained on the website—it only said the kids area would close by 7. Fortunately, the very kind staff accommodated us for a short swim nonetheless, given the circumstances.

Leisure Family_with_children

6/10

Pleasant

27 Jul 2025

Craig

Nice overall, some minor maintenance needed

This hotel is essentially at a motorway services. But is far nicer than many motorway service hotels in the UK. Nice rooms, comfy bed, good wifi and slept well. Even though my room over looked the motorway it was soundproofed which was good. I didnt eat here but there was a foodcourt in the services and also another services just a few minutes away.

Interestingly though, in my room (215) there is clear evidence that the door to the room and bathroom have clearly been forced open. I hope whatever happened everyone was OK, but fix it and fix it properly as its disconcerting to wonder what might have happened in that room.

Business

8/10

Excellent

22 Jul 2025

Sean

One night

Portlaose was a convenient meeting place and easy fir the main road

Business

8/10

Excellent

06 Jul 2025

Deirdre

Very clean Hotel and Bedroom was spotless , food not great to be honest needs improving

8/10

Excellent

04 Jul 2025

Irena

Modern hotel

8/10

Excellent

30 Jun 2025

Kelly

Didn’t like that the pool was only able to be accessed until 730 PM. I mean that is extremely early to close the pool. Very disappointing.

Leisure Family

2/10

Poor

15 Jun 2025

Shannon

We are Canadian performers and checked in late last night after a gig and the staff was terrible . Was not welcoming not friendly didn’t give us any information . Watched as we struggled to bring our bags in . In the room we needed more pillows as we didn’t have any and we called down the staff basically said we were not looking correctly and they were there . We brought up a trolley with our bags it was empty and we were just getting thing settled and the staff walked by and said make sure you put that away . For check out we asked if we could have and extra 15-30min they said for an extra cost . We were not happy at all . I plan on making sure nobody in our company ever stays here , in any country they are in .

Business Partner

10/10

Exceptional

09 Jun 2025

Phillip

Convenient and clean with excellent breakfast

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

27 May 2025

Bernadette

Check out time

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

19 May 2025

Benjamin

One of the best hotels I have ever stayed in. It's not grand, but it is clean and the breakfast is amazing. They are on top of pleasing each guest. Visited from the USA and will be back.

Business_and_leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

08 May 2025

jackie

Excellent value for money

Very comfortable room with lots of nice extras, like chocolates, biscuits, bottled water, full coffee machine and tea selection. Spacious room. Very nice dinner. Leisure centre open to the public so quite busy but probably the time I went. Situated beside a filling station with an M&S mini shop, Burger King and some other eateries which was great to nip in and grab a quick lunch. Friendly check in and quiet night’s sleep.

Business

8/10

Excellent

04 May 2025

Michelle

Weekend trip

The guy at reception was extremely friendly and professional and made sure he could get us in for dinner later that evening which was excellent . Overall the room, food, and pool facilities were of a high standard. All staff were extremely polite, helpful and professional.

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

27 Apr 2025

Tracey

Service and house standards were exceptional, it was a quiet environment, offered free parking and the attached restaurant offered a great breakfast offer. Did not have lunch or evening meal but would be sure it would be of the same standard. Attached bar and restaurant within house so no external exit required. You would either need family or friends near by, own transport or hire a taxi as although not too far from town, mostly country lanes to get from A to B. Based off a main bye road

Leisure Family

8/10

Excellent

27 Apr 2025

Mandy

Dublin on tour

Lovely hotel clean,Good size room

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

19 Apr 2025

James

Easy access to and from motorway.Friendly helpful staff.Good food.Peaceful and quiet considering its beside a motorway.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

30 Mar 2025

Julie

Na

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

25 Mar 2025

harry

there is no dropped kerb between the disabled parking spaces and the hotel entrance.One wheelchair visitor struggled to climb the high kerb to enter the hotel. Dropped kerbs are to be found in the shopping area spaces but these are not obvious from the hotel carpark.

8/10

Excellent

23 Mar 2025

Andrew

Cant complain

Good, friendly service at reception. Spacious and very clean room. Comfortable nights stay.
Parking nit an issue as large car park.
Hotel is on a small park with an M&S and Burger King, so some Youthful activity.

Business

10/10

Exceptional

19 Mar 2025

Emma

Happy

I absolutely loved my stay the staff couldn't do more for me and my little family

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

31 Jan 2025

Ronan

Clean and no hassle

10/10

Exceptional

13 Jan 2025

Martina

It's a bit out of the town centre if you don't have transport

Leisure Friends

8/10

Excellent

04 Dec 2024

peter

Ok for a drop-in work trip. Rooms were great and warm. Hotel staff very helpful.

Business

8/10

Excellent

28 Nov 2024

Colin

Room was great, but dinner despite the food being good, the serving staff were more engaged with each other than the customers. Felt more like a school canteen

Business

10/10

Exceptional

25 Nov 2024

June

Lovely room very clean

Business_and_leisure

10/10

Exceptional

07 Nov 2024

kevin

Clean, comfortable and spacious room.

Business

10/10

Exceptional

27 Oct 2024

KAREN

Maldron hotl portlaoise a thumbs up

Faulous hotel , friendly informative and helpful staff, food grsat , seevice a little sliw in reafuarant as big numbera booked , but iveeall excelle t stay

8/10

Excellent

20 Oct 2024

Oònagh

Was very easy to get to, rooms clean , staff very friendly, breakfast and dinner could have been hotter, other than that it was fine

6/10

Pleasant

09 Sep 2024

Eamonn

Good experience apart from room too warm for sleeping and some reluctance to change our room to one without an interconnecting door. Good breakfast.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

04 Sep 2024

Alan

Clean Hotel

A bed is all I needed, overnight stay. Clean room, comfortable bed.

Business

8/10

Excellent

01 Aug 2024

Kestutis

Bedroom

Business

10/10

Exceptional

30 Jul 2024

Andrius

All was good

10/10

Exceptional

30 Jul 2024

C

Very happy with staff and hotel.

10/10

Exceptional

26 Jul 2024

C

Nice hotel, very nice staff

Business

10/10

Exceptional

05 Jul 2024

Maria Nympha

Awesome staff especially Josh.

Leisure Family_with_children

10/10

Exceptional

21 Jun 2024

VENUS

It's clean and modern furniture. The staff are very courteous and helpful.

Leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

21 May 2024

Eileen

all fine

Business_and_leisure Self

8/10

Excellent

21 Apr 2024

Danny

Portlaoise trip.

Nice hotel appears to be a part of a service station. Free parking, easy check in and comfortable room. What more can you ask for ? Breakfast was included and was good. Good value foe money overall andcwoukd use this hotel again,

Business Self

10/10

Exceptional

18 Mar 2024

Guy

Excellent

8/10

Excellent

23 Feb 2024

Stephen

Right of the highway and connected to a travel plaza.

Leisure Family

8/10

Excellent

04 Feb 2024

Amanda

Lovely stay but no shampoo and conditioner in the bathroom. Major letdown.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

11 Dec 2023

Kevin

Great value for money Dining on site

10/10

Exceptional

28 Nov 2023

Stephen

Use of leisure centre, pool and sauna and hot tub

Business Self

10/10

Exceptional

31 Aug 2023

ANDREW

The staff were very accomodating. I had an appointment at 4pm at Kilbeggan. They made a room available for me to change in. I enjoyed the pool and the breakfast. It was overall a positive experience.

Business Self

10/10

Exceptional

27 Aug 2023

Liz

This hotel had all you needed. The rooms lots of towels , extra bedding a safe, fan etc. Staff friendly and helpful. Smoking area needs to be improved as we were staying on the ground floor near the front door/ bar and there was alot of noise from the smoking area . I couldnt fault the hotel. The breakfast was amazing. The bar was very noisy as there were alot of families staying. Needed sone more \"calm\" with dim lighting and some background music!

Leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

22 Aug 2023

Dean

Lovely facility and good restaurant. Very accommodating staff give that we were booking late due to a scam booking from Vrbo that left us with no other option but to book this 4-star hotel in Carlow because we were otherwise left stranded without a place to stay.

Leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

19 Aug 2023

Clarence

Pool not open after supper time?

Didn’t live up to its ratings unfortunately. Room very small. Could use a new mattress. Pool only open until supper time but… was told one can still use it after checking out. Access to hotel not easy to get to either until you’ve been there once.

Partner

4/10

Poor

06 Jul 2023

Eng wooi

There was a terrible smell of old cigarette smoke in the hall and bedrooms. Tired looking place

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

01 Jun 2023

F

The lap swimming pool was a great option.

10/10

Exceptional

01 May 2023

Barbara

Very helpful staff…clean comfortable spacious room…excellent dining. Very enjoyable stay.

Leisure Family

4/10

Poor

25 Mar 2023

Verified traveler

Issues

Couldn’t seem to get a key to work to open my door, after trying multiple keys and multiple trips up and down to reception the receptionist had to let me in with her master key and this was the case any time I wanted to leave the room so it became more effort than it was worth. This was only resolved a little before check out when the guy at the front desk gave me a new key before using the gym and explained why I had had issues to this point. Key finally worked. Bed linen on double bed dirty and stained, single was fine so just slept in that, with the key debacle had no faith in anything else being rectified. As for comfort well was near impossible to get sleep as the walls so thin that all could hear was the tv from the person in the room next until near 4 am. Not a good experience at all.

Business Self

8/10

Excellent

01 Feb 2023

Russell

Nice room but bed was too hard and shower fluctuated fast and slow ,heating very noisy,

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

19 Nov 2022

Joey

Had a super relaxing overnight stay great food and staff all helpful

Partner

8/10

Excellent

15 Nov 2022

Anna M

Solid place

Solid stay - nice, clean facilities, friendly front desk staff, a restaurant with a decent mix of reasonably priced dishes. I was only booked for one night, so I didn't check out the gym or the pool, but my room was clean and the bed was really comfy. You could hear the neighbors a bit, but it wasn't bad. The main thing for me was that the room was rather cold - there was just a radiator but no central AC/heat from what I could find, so I wonder what they do during winter or if it gets really hot in the summer. There's a large food court next door and a large parking lot outside, which was convenient. Good value for the money, I'd book here again if I ever travel through Portlaoise again!

Self

10/10

Exceptional

06 Oct 2022

Martin

Great Hotel, near the motorway. Great local facilities. Great rates.

Business Self

10/10

Exceptional

01 Oct 2022

Matt

Very friendly check in. Lovely hotel rooms. House keeping appears to be of a very high standard

Business Self

8/10

Excellent

29 Sep 2022

Amber

Easy, basic hotel, with great staff

Leisure Family

6/10

Pleasant

28 Sep 2022

Verified traveler

Pool & associated facilities were shut unexpectedly during my stay.

Business

10/10

Exceptional

09 Sep 2022

FRANCIS

some routine procedures do not work out

booking in was chaotic the clerk had difficulty locating my booking and needed time to locate it

Friends_and_family Friends

8/10

Excellent

04 Jul 2022

Paula

Great customer service in the end

Stay was eventually very good but on arrival later than planned due to flight delay, room had been given away to walk in despite earlier confirmation that we were still coming but it was all sorted in the end and both night porter and manager were very helpful and went above and beyond to sort everything out and stay was great Great customer service and that’s all you can ask for

Friends_and_family Family

8/10

Excellent

01 Jul 2022

J

good, clean hotel

Self

10/10

Exceptional

29 Jun 2022

James

Lovely Hotel, staff were excellent and very helpful and access to the pool was a bonus

Business Self

8/10

Excellent

21 Jun 2022

Monique

Easy access and a short jaunt to center of town. Larger, spacious rooms.
Only negative is that the hallway noise is very loud compared to other establishments.

Leisure Self

4/10

Poor

07 May 2022

Alan

Very noisy with children running up and down the corridors and lots of door banging

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

10 Apr 2022

Sarah

Friendly staff

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

30 Mar 2022

GERARD

Very convenient pleasant hotel

Business_and_leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

21 Feb 2022

Joanne

The staff were professional and friendly. The rooms were clean and comfortable. The pool and gym areas were great, and clean. We saw the spa area, but unfortunately could get booked in for a massage, but the staff were still friendly and professional.

Leisure Partner

6/10

Pleasant

29 Oct 2021

Tom

Bed was terrible but the hotel was quiet.

Business Self

10/10

Exceptional

08 Sep 2021

Verified traveler

Great location for a break in travel to the south west . Lovely clean and quiet . Great stay

Self

6/10

Pleasant

28 Jul 2021

Stephen

Issues with key card, someone else was able to walk into my room, uncomfortably warm in this weather and when the window is open noise from main road is through the night, average place

Self

2/10

Poor

12 Jul 2021

John

Not good value for money

Definitely not worth what we paid for what we got, firstly requested accessible room didn’t get accessible room couldn’t even reach hand soap to wash our hands. We checked in at 4 & we’re told we needed to book a table for dinner fine only to be told we couldn’t actually book as they were fully booked that night but we could have food at the adjacent food court, luckily weather was dry to do this, no swimming slots available when we checked in at 4 until 9am the following morning & only space for breakfast to book was 10:45 for the price we paid for one night given the location on top it was ridiculous, check in staff not very friendly when I asked why you could stay in the hotel but yet not have a table for dinner. Only we were meeting friends there wouldn’t have stayed in the end & very thankful it was dry that evening

Friends_and_family Family

8/10

Excellent

02 Oct 2020

Fiona

Comfy overnight stay

Comfortable stay with friendly check in staff room was spotless. Room was perfect temperature not too hot, plenty of free parking and a food court next door for a quick snack or refreshment.

Self

10/10

Exceptional

21 Sep 2020

Christopher

Very convenient location. The staff were all very friendly. The room was very spacious and clean. The bed was very comfortable.

Partner

8/10

Excellent

09 Mar 2020

Steve

Services stay with a nice twist of comfort

This was a surprisingly good hotel based on a motorway services. Swimming Pool and Gym attached - sadly I didn't get the chance to use them and the rooms were clean and comfortable (although I didn't like the idea of the double bed being two singles, pushed together).

That said, the location was good and the food and drink were very palatable too.

They also had BT Sport which meant that I didn't miss Chelsea giving Liverpool a footballing lesson tin the FA Cup!!

Business

8/10

Excellent

07 Mar 2020

DARRAGH

Clean

Teah good

Business

6/10

Pleasant

24 Feb 2020

Verified traveler

Not much of a view. motor way on one side and a huge car park on the other

Leisure Family_with_children

2/10

Poor

09 Dec 2019

Verified traveler

No a nice place to stay plus the hotel staff is super nosy. The place is super isolated and no cozy at all.

Business Self

8/10

Excellent

28 Nov 2019

Michael

One nighter

Stayed here for one night with my son as he had test early in morning

Business

2/10

Poor

18 Nov 2019

Emmalouise

Disastrous

Upon arrival there was an unpleasant smell both in room and toilets of the bar/restaurants facilities night porter was extremely rude and was accused of underpaying for our room to which we paid in full on arrival staff were slow at waiting tables and clearing after other residents had left extortionate price for 2 nights stay without breakfast or meal when asked to speak to management there was no management on site were not willing to compensate for their hospitality

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

15 Nov 2019

Maeve

Comfortable and quiet stay. Highly recommend.

Business

8/10

Excellent

11 Nov 2019

PAUL

Great Staff and Clean Hotel

Great staff and very nice hotel. Unfortunately we had very noisy neighbours and had a very disturbed sleep. Tinder dates should be isolated from family rooms as policy!!!

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

02 Nov 2019

Michael

The hotel is very convenient to the M7. The room was spotlessly clean, and very quiet. The buffet breakfast was the best breakfast of this trip.

Leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

29 Oct 2019

Verified traveler

There was a strange water-rushing noise all night. My room was at the back, so it may have been a compressor, or heating system or something