If you're lucky enough to stay at one of the classy hotels or elegant guesthouses that occupy former Georgian town houses on both sides of the Liffey, you'll quickly realize that entering one of these little domestic palaces really is a trip back in time. But this does not mean the 21st century has not arrived. "An absolute avalanche of new hotels" is how the Irish Times characterized Dublin's hotel boom in the last decade. New lodgings have sprung up all over the city, including the much-talked-about Westin at College Green, a totally revamped Shelbourne, and a few others in Ballsbridge, an inner "suburb" that's a 20-minute walk from the city center. More »
