DUBLIN IS ABOUT to get its first new hotel for nearly two years – and from basement to penthouse it’s tailor-made for hipsters. Cashed-up ones.
After a €5.5 million fit-out, three Georgian terraces in Dublin’s Harcourt St, once the staid offices of the ICC Bank, will open tomorrow as the 52-bedroom The Dean Hotel.
The hotel is the latest venue launched by the Press Up Entertainment Group, the same mob behind bringing the Wagamama chain to Ireland, as well as Dublin’s Bison Bar & BBQ and The Liquor Rooms.
The new flophouse will include the ground-floor Dean Bar, a first-floor “event space” and a rooftop New York-style Italian restaurant called Sophie’s with views over the city.
However it will be inside the hotel rooms that everything really goes into fixie-riding overdrive, with the cheapest rooms featuring “punk bunks” and many kitted out with turntables, vinyl collections and Marshall guitar amps.
The 128 sqm two-bed penthouse has a loft and, wait for it, its own cocktail bar, a 70in TV, foosball table and eight-seat poker table.
Here’s the blurb: “We don’t do conventional. We do fun. Super cool & comfortable rooms filled with stuff that will make you smile. Spaces for work & play. Food & drink to tweet home about.”
But all that smiling and… tweeting… will cost you – room rates will start from €109 a night and go all the way up to an eye-watering €999 for the top digs.
At least the bathrooms are as big as some Dublin studios.
It will also feature works from Irish artists throughout its rooms and the owners said the commissions and purchases were worth over €250,000 in total.
Oh, there are swings inside too…
The Dean Hotel opens tomorrow.
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