HARLEQUIN HOTEL
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Welcome to the Harlequin Hotel The Harlequin Hotel in Castlebar is centrally located in Castlebar town, minutes from Westport and close to some of the top visitor attractions in the West of Ireland. Experience the breath-taking scenery of the walking and cycling trails on the Great Western Greenway or take a step back in time at the National Museum of Country Life. Browse the unique craft shops and designer boutiques in the town centre and then take in a show at the Royal Theatre, one of the largest venues in Ireland. The Harlequin is a very popular hotel for short breaks in Ireland. Our style conscious guests love the unique style and contemporary feel of the hotel, the unusual dĂŠcor and quirky colour schemes are an enduring favourite. We love our style but comfort is of paramount importance, from our Heavenly Hypnos beds to lazing in our luxury armchairs, it is no wonder our guests are reluctant to leave! We invite you to look through our brochure and catch a glimpse of what we have to offer.
Harlequin Hotel
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Contents Sleep
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Bedrooms
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Dine
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Meeting and Corporate Events
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Weddings and Civil Ceremonies
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Special Occasions ROYAL QUARTER
Spoil yourself in our executive bedroom
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Harlequin Hotel and Mayo Convention Centre
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Adventure Mayo
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our invitation to you
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contact US
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SLEEP The Harlequin Hotel in Castlebar is a design enthusiast’s dream. Surrounded by all the style and luxury, it’s no wonder guests seem a little reluctant to leave. All guest bedrooms are spacious, contemporary and bright, reflecting on the style of the Harlequin Hotel Mayo. With three very different colour schemes running throughout, our guest rooms are purposely designed with your comfort in mind. Guest facilities include: • • • • • • • •
Breakfast in bed at the luxurious courtyard bedroom
Rooms available in 3 colour Palettes – aqua, chocolate and emerald Free WIFI Heavenly Hypnos beds Free car parking Lap top safe Flat screen multi channel TV Tea & coffee making facilities Hairdryer
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Bedrooms Executive Bedrooms As with all Harlequin bedrooms our executive rooms come with ultra-luxurious Hypnos beds. Each of our executive rooms includes a queen size and a single bed and is designed with your comfort in mind. Deluxe Rooms Our deluxe rooms are more spacious than our executive rooms and offer an additional wow factor. Plus the extra space is Ideal when accommodating families. Courtyard Rooms Roomy and luxurious our courtyard rooms are located within the main hotel and get their name from the internal courtyard which they overlook. These rooms offer more space than our executive rooms, with the added bonus of having extra space to accommodate families. Luxury Junior Suites The ultimate in luxury…..spoil yourself. Our selection of spacious junior suites have been designed with your comfort in mind. All suites are individually designed and feature contemporary furniture, accessories and artwork. The living area includes a large leather couch and comfortable armchair, and an oversized multi-channel LCD TV. Sit back and relax in comfort and style in one Castlebar’s only four star property and one of Mayo’s finest hotels.
Deluxe emerald bedroom at the Harlequin Hotel
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DINE
To have a great restaurant is an essential of any great hotel, and Harlequin in Castlebar is no exception... One of Castlebar’s finest restaurants The Foyer Restaurant is open daily serving contemporary Irish and International cuisine. Here you will dine fabulously with skilled chefs preparing dishes using delicious local ingredients in a delightful space with warm welcomes. It’s a recipe for success even before the first bottle is uncorked. Indulge in a great start to your day at The Foyer Restaurant Castlebar which serves both continental and full Irish breakfast from 7.00am. Lunch is served daily from 12.30 to 3.00 with an a la carte lunch menu as well as our lunch special offers . In the evening enjoy a mouth watering meal with our contemporary cuisine prepared from local produce by our award winning Chef and savor a nice bottle of wine from our carefully chosen selection. Whether it’s a quick bite on the run, or a relaxed dinner with friends, our menus cater for all occasions.
Foyer Restaurant at the Harlequin Hotel
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Meeting and Corporate Events Harlequin Hotel Castlebar is the ideal base for corporate and Business travel, and is an ideal choice for all forms of meetings, training sessions or presentations. The Hotel is ideally located for your business meetings with plenty of car parking facilities available just in the town centre, of Castlebar , in the heart of Mayo. The Harlequin Hotel, is Castlebar’s only four Star Hotel and offers you and your delegates five star service. With capacity for up to 150 delegates, we can offer a choice of contemporary, comfortable, quiet rooms, for interview style sessions to lectures for 150 people. Our dedicated Harlequin meeting rooms have screens with LCD projectors. Our 4 syndicate boardrooms offer privacy and comfort for discreet business meetings.
Boardroom meeting at the Harlequin Hotel
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Weddings and Civil Ceremonies The Harlequin Hotel are delighted to offer our venue for your wedding, civil ceremony and reception. As one of Mayo’s finest hotels, we have hosted many ceremonies helping couples to design their ideal special occasion. We have a choice of private suites and are available to help you create the perfect setting for your blessing or ceremony in Castlebar’s only four star hotel. Our private suites are perfect for the smaller, intimate ceremony, however we also cater for larger ceremonies. Our suites create a warm and welcoming feel for your ceremony on your special day. In order for us to understand your requirements, we invite you to a private viewing of the hotel and our facilities after which we sit down to go through any questions or queries you may have regarding your special day.
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Special Occasions The Foyer Restaurant at the Harlequin Hotel is the ideal setting for any special occasion or family dining experience. We cater for every occasion whether it’s a significant birthday, an anniversary celebration, a christening party, a reunion or retirement or simply a group of friends who want to get together - we have the menus to suit all tastes and budgets. Private dining options are available in our function rooms which you can decorate to the theme of your occasion or you can choose the chic and boutique Foyer Restaurant for your celebration.
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the harlequin hotel proud to Be part oF the roYal quarter
What is the royal quarter The Royal Quarter in the centre of Castlebar, consists of several entities, all located next to each other.
The Royal Quarter
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harlequin hotel and maYo convention centre The Harlequin Hotel is privileged to be able to offer its customers the facility of the on-site Mayo Convention Centre. Whether you’re planning a meeting between 2 business colleagues or a conference for 2,500, we have the adaptable meeting space with various meeting rooms available across the Mayo Convention Centre complex to make it a success. The main hall of the conference venue is a multipurpose facility suitable for small, medium and large events with the finest conference facilities that of any facility outside of the capital has to offer. At the Mayo Convention Centre we are well aware that small meetings can lead to big ideas and bearing that in mind we can offer a variety of versatile spaces including syndicate rooms, executive board rooms and a range of rooms with retractable partition walls that allow room sizes to be adapted to meet individual client needs.
Mayo Convention Centre
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Multiplatinum-selling recording artist, Bryan Adams the Mayo Convention Centre
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HARLEQUIN HOTEL Rockabilly’s finest Imelda May at the Mayo Convention Centre
Boardroom meeting at the Mayo Convention Centre The world-renowned ‘Russian Ice Stars’ present Peter Pan on Ice at the Mayo Convention Centre
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Backstage at the Mayo Convention Centre
WE HAVE 2,500 Theatre Set up at the Mayo Convention Centre Grammy Award nominated Hozier at the Mayo Convention Centre
Contact Us Martina Nicholson
Mayo Convention Centre Director Mayo Convention Centre C/O Harlequin Hotel Lannagh Road, Castlebar, Co Mayo.
The international Irish dance phenomenon Riverdance at the Mayo Covention Centre
Dublin Office 78 Grove Road Dublin 6 web: www.mayocc.ie Telephone : +353 (0)87 2897786 +353 (0)94 9286200 Email : martina@mayocc.ie
Fine Gael Ard Fheis at the Mayo Convention Centre Classroom set up at the Mayo Convention Centre
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Adventure Mayo If you’re looking for adventure in the west of Ireland, you’ve come to the right place! Surrounded by the natural rugged landscape of Mayo we are located in an adventurers paradise. Whether it’s a team building experience or a chance to release the energies built up after a time spent in meetings and conference we have solutions on our doorstep to meet all levels of fitness and daring…. Achill Island Westport and the Wild Atlantic Way Great Western Greenway Croagh Patrick
The Wild Atlantic Way
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Achill Island Achill Island is the largest island in the Country (24km x 19km) and is accessible from the mainland by bridge. Its magnificent sandy beaches, sea cliffs and warm hospitality bring visitors back again and again for holidays. Visit the beautiful villages of Dooagh and Dooega, the high cliffs at Slievemore and Minaun, the magnificent beaches at Keel and Keem, under the Achill Head. The famous Atlantic Drive takes you on a journey of scenic splendour, a must for all visitors to Achill. Achill boasts no less than two adventure centres which offer the best in windsurfing, sailing, abseiling, diving and many other activities. The Achill Seafood Festival has established itself as one of Mayo’s best festival weekends. The Festival, which is held in July, offers the best in delicious gourmet seafood, with plenty of ceol, music agus craic in the many traditional pubs in the evenings. Scoil Acla is one of Ireland’s oldest summer schools offering workshops in traditional music, creative writing, set dancing and Ceili Workshops. The summer school hosts art exhibitions, painting courses and of course, Gaeilge Acla the Irish of Achill. Visit Achill and choose Harlequin Hotel as the ideal base to explore this fantastic natural resource.
Keem Bay, Achill Island
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Westport and the Wild Atlantic Way The Wild Atlantic Way is a 2500km (1500 miles) driving route, stretching from Malin Head in County Donegal to Kinsale in County Cork along Ireland’s western seabord. It was launched in February 2014 by Junior Tourism Minister Michael Ring and it traverses the entire rugged and spectacular west coast of Ireland from Cork through counties Kerry, Clare, Galway, Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim to Donegal. In Mayo the Wild Atlantic Way is a 543km coastal drive and much of Mayo’s spectacular natural scenery lies along it. In Mayo there are thirty-one Discovery Points and two of them are indicated as Signature Points: Downpatrick Head and Keem Strand in Achill. You can travel the Mayo section of The Wild Atlantic Way with the Harlequin Hotel as an ideal accommodation base. The jewel in the crown of the Wild Atlantic Route has to be the picturesque town of Westport. Located just minutes from Harlequin Hotel the town boasts many fine restaurants, specialising particularly in seafood and many fine traditional pubs, all providing a friendly ambience and warm Irish hospitality. There are many festivals and events taking place in Westport every year: Westport Horse & Pony Show (May/June), Westport Folk & Blue Grass Festival, Westport Sea Angling Festival, (both June), Westport Music Festival, Gaelforce West Adventure Festival (both Aug), Westport Horse Fair (Sept), Westport Arts Festival (Oct).
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GREAT WESTERN GREENWAY The entire 42km traffic-free route is ideal for a leisurely stroll, a brisk walk or an energetic cycle, while affording the opportunity to admire the breathtaking scenery around Clew Bay, from this elevated historic old railway line originally built in the 1800’s. Traversing woodlands, rolling hills and original stone cut railway bridges the Great Western Greenway offers gentle gradients and some of the most idyllic scenery in the west of Ireland. Enjoy spectacular views of the Nephin Beg Range to the north and views of Clew Bay and Croagh Patrick to the south, as you stroll, walk or cycle along the scenic route. The Greenway is a thrilling and safe experience for all the family and is suitable for people with even moderate levels of fitness. Bicycle hire and return is available in a variety of outlets at different points of the Greenway and at Harlequin Hotel we would be delighted to assist in making arrangements for bicycle hire, preparing your picnic and providing the ideal base to explore the West of Ireland on this fantastic trackway.
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Croagh Patrick Patrick’s sacred mountain, Croagh Patrick or the Reek as it is also known is situated five miles from the picturesque town of Westport and the mountain’s conical shape soars majestically above the surrounding countryside. Magnificent views of Clew Bay and the surrounding south Mayo countryside are to be had from all stages of the ascent of the mountain. Follow the steps of Patrick and in doing so meet people from far and near. One of Europe’s best know places of Pilgrimage, Croagh Patrick has provided a tough ascent for many pilgrims each year, climbing barefoot in the memory of St. Patrick, who spent forty days and forty nights fasting on the summit more than 1,500 years ago. A small church at the summit of the mountain welcomes penitents, while magnificent views of Clew Bay, with an island for every day of the year, provides inspiration for many walkers and visitors throughout the year Teach na Miasa, The Croagh Patrick Visitor Centre, is situated in Murrisk on the Pilgrim’s path at the base of Croagh Patrick mountain and opposite the National Famine Monument. Make sure to call and visit
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our invitation to you On behalf of the team at the Harlequin Hotel and Mayo Convention Centre we are delighted to have introduced you to this truly unique destination. Situated in the heart of Mayo and located just minutes from Westport the Harlequin Hotel and Mayo Convention Centre presents a modern hotel and conferences space with everything that is needed for the a getaway break, business meeting or conference. With a range of outstanding on-site facilities, local attractions and activities to choose from plus a dedicated team of professionals to hand you will be pleased you chose the Harlequin Hotel and Mayo Convention Centre. With the additional attributes of Westport town on our doorstep your Harlequin Hotel and Mayo Convention Centre experience will be very positive. We look forward to welcoming you to Mayo in the near future.
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Contact Us Harlequin Hotel Lannagh Road, Castlebar, Co Mayo. web: www.harlequin.ie Telephone : +353 (0)94 9286200 Fax : +353 (0)94 9286201 Email : info@harlequin.ie
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