| there's also a contemporary restaurant/bar and a bright lobby lounge. parking is complimentary. relaxed, colourful rooms come with free wi-fi, flat-screen tvs, and tea and coffeemaking facilities. among commercial plazas off the n6 motorway, this trendy hotel across the road from a river is 2 km from the medieval lynch's castle in the city centre. breakfast is extra. . galway city museum is 3 km away
Shannon Airport 1 hr 3
Menlo Castle (8 min)
Well-known ruins of a riverfront castle built in the 1500s, with ivy-covered walls. Aran Island Ferries (4 min) Galway Atlantaquaria, National Aquarium of Ireland (11 min)
Aquarium featuring native Irish sealife, popular fish feeding sessions & touch pools. The Latin Quarter (8 min) Eyre Square (9 min)
Popular square in the heart of the city featuring grassy areas, trees, sculptures & a playground. Galway City Museum (7 min)
Small displays of documents, photographs, memorabilia and medieval artefacts chronicling urban life. Galway Walks - Galway City Walking Tours (5 min) Spanish Arch (7 min)
Added to the 16th-century walls in the 18th century, this archway provides access to Spanish Parade. Galway Cathedral (6 min)
Modern and airy, green-domed, renaissance-style Catholic cathedral, with a mosaic of JF Kennedy. Corcomroe Abbey (47 min)
Stone ruins of a stately 13th-century Cistercian monastery in the countryside with a cemetery. Dunguaire Castle (31 min)
Immaculately restored, 16th-century bay-side fortress with a literary history and evening banquets. Lynch's Castle (9 min)
The only complete non-religious medieval building still standing in Galway features stone gargoyles. Saint Nicholas' Collegiate Church (9 min)
Large, 14th-century Anglican Episcopal church visited by Oliver Cromwell and Christopher Columbus. | 
