Abbey Hotel Donegal

Nothing fancy, but it is clean and in a great location.

This review is for the restaurant at the back of the bar. The service was excellent HOWEVER... The vegetables on the grazing board were decaying. Inedible. Instead of serving that , tell your guest the item is not available tonight. Go buy some fresh veg. Cesar salad served with iceberg lettuce instead of romaine. Side salad dosed with English salad cream! It is no longer 1982 here in Donegal . Step it up. The seafood chowder was lovely. Other food coming out to guests like burgers actually looked good . If you don't have the fresh ingredients available on the given night , just tell guests it is unavailable.

Overall a disappointing experience. Getting checked in wasn’t easy as they were more interested in coach parties than solo travellers. Initially told 15:30 for check in, then 16:00 for check in and didn’t get checked in til 16:15. The room overlooked an internal space in the hotel and you could see into other rooms and there was no courtesy cover on the windows, such as voile or muslin. No towels were in my room and I believe this was the case in many rooms that day. This internal space overlooked ventilation ducts or something similar and the noise from these went on to the early hours of the morning and then started up again perhaps around 5:00. Out of 5 nights staying only on the final night was the noise stopped at an acceptable time. Breakfast was slightly warmer than warm but cooled down very quickly and was barely pleasant. Food in the Abbey Bar was ok but expensive for portion size. Overall while it’s a 3 star hotel there are many areas for significant improvement and the corridors etc are very tired and grubby looking. I wouldn’t rush back but believe the hotel next door to it is also part of the same corporate group. It’s a highly competitive market in west Donegal and I’m surprised the abbey can maintain its level of service based on what I experienced.

My wife and I stayed one night. In retrospect, we should have stayed here at least one more night. The hotel is located in the middle of town and had wonderful food at both restaurants and comfortable accommodations. The town is great for local artisan shopping.

We booked into the market house on Friday evening for a birthday dinner and experienced the best service and absolutely fabulous food!! We would definitely recommend to anyone in donegal town to visit 10/10 we will definitely be back soon !!

Curteous staff. Good dining options

Had a 2 night stay here with my granddaughter, lovely hotel clean and tidy friendly staff excellent food and such good music every night. Just one downfall room was too warm even with the window open heating was on unable to switch off rad completely got it turned down but not off

The staff and food are the two things that make this hotel. The staff are lovely and couldn't do enough for you. Unfortunately the rooms and the building itself are a big let down. For the price of a nights stay - the least you could do is revamp the rooms. They're very cold due to bad windows (even in August!), paper thin walls, chipped tiles, broken toilet seat, stains on the pillow protectors, bad matresses, worn out bedclothes, curtains too short for the window, the tv the size of a stamp and everything just overall old and tattered. The corridors to the rooms are uninviting and the seats/tables in the bar area have seen better days. This hotel has so much potential. With the river running to the back of it - this could be a vocal point. This could be the best hotel in Donegal town.