The Montenotte Hotel

Fantastic hotel with incredible staff

Liked: - Staff were all incredibly friendly and helpful, always looking for ways to help and would greet us every time we walked passed.- Great facilities, with plenty of comfy space to relax.- The restaurant was excellent, with a great standard and superb quality.- They have an additional cosy bar which was great to relax at in the evenings and also had some live music- Wonderful views across Cork, both from the bar and restaurant and also from the rooms.- Health club - great gym, large pool which was a good temperature suitable temperature for swimming. Hot tub was also kept at a great temperature. Sauna and steam room also available. The health club as a whole is clean and really well maintained.- Lovely rooms, spacious with good storage space for a long weekend, comfy beds, great water pressure - and kept very clean by the housekeeping team. Our room was also restocked daily with teas, biscuits, etc- The bottles of water supplied in the room are environmentally friendly bottles which is a nice touch.- Additionally to this the shampoo, conditioner and body lotion are all in reusable bottles.- Good breakfast with plenty of self service and menu options, with made to order coffees.- Location - the hotel is along a hill looking over Cork, away from the business city centre. It took us no more than about 20 - 30 min to walk from the hotel into Cork city centre.- We did not drive, but plenty of parking is also available.
Disliked: - The only real negative, is that the area around the pool is incredibly slippery. Across our stay we witnessed a number of guests nearly slip when walking along the pool side, some actually slipped over entirely. A simple grip mat placed along the side of the pool would reduce a lot of safety risk here.