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What the Critics Say

Living In Magazine - July 2009

La Taverna Armento - La Dolce Vita... continue reading

The Irish Independent - March 2009

The Strawberry Tree - Top Rated... continue reading

Darina Allen, The Irish Examiner - March 2009

Feast For Organic Lovers... continue reading

Image Magazine - March 2009

Organic Fantastic... continue reading

The Sunday Independent - January 2009

Wish Upon a Spa... continue reading

Evening Herald - December 2008

Weekend Retreat... continue reading

AA Motoring Magazine - Winter 2008

The AA Hotel of the Year has been named... continue reading

Irish Times - September 2008

...For there, nestled among the slopes of southern Co.Wicklow, is the little village of Macreddin is clearly a secret known to many... continue reading

Lifein Magazine - May 2008

The perfect destination for a weekend mini-break with a spa, organic restuarant, pub, local rambles, golf... continue reading

Travel Extra - March 2008

BrookLodge Hotel & Spa offers such variety of treatments with well qualified therapists. I have never spoken to anyone who wasn't satisfied with their massages etc... continue reading

Guidebook Entries

See what guidebooks such as Lonely Planet and Frommers have had to say about Brooklodge over the past year... continue reading.

Bridgestone 100 Best Places To Stay 2008

It's been a normal sort of year in The BrookLodge. A new destination built for their hugely popular weddings. The new golf course well underway, with the ever-smiling Paul McGinley...continue reading

The Bridgestone 100 Best Restaurants 2008

Can we recommend that any group of people dining in The Strawberry Tree opt for the Feast menu?...continue reading

U Magazine - August 2006

Situated a short track from Dublin, this 'fantasy island' in the garden of Ireland, Co. Wicklow, is a one stop shop for top class pampering, beautiful accommodation and surrounds and the most amazing organic restaurant... continue reading.

Ireland on Sunday - May 2006

The first rule of impulsive weekend breaks? Book weeks, if not months in advance. I know, it ruins the surprise-but it's crucial if you don't want to be fleeced by last-option B&B's that live off Americans who don't know better... continue reading.

The Sunday Mail - April 2006

If only I'd known about the fabulous BrookLodge Hotel, just an hour away in gorgeous County Wicklow. It's not far to BrookLodge hotel, near Aughrim, which opened in 1999 and quickly became a popular retreat for out-of-towners and wealthy Americans... continue reading.

Bridgestone's 100 Best places to stay in Ireland 2006

The BrookLodge Hotel is so famous it has become the object of satire. Come on down, Ross O'Carroll Kelly... continue reading.

Georgina Campbell Guide 2006

Spacious and welcoming, the hotel has elegant country house furnishings, open fires and plenty of places to sit quietly or meet for a sociable drink... continue reading.

Sunday World - October 2005

Maybe it's the pool overlooking a meadow, the organic restaurant or the mountain view but if you are looking for a slice of heaven I've found it... continue reading.

Image Magazine - September 2005

The Treatment: 'Just The Two Of Us' - Serail Mud Bath for two, followed by a hot tub, finished with aromatheray massag, side by side... continue reading.

RTE Guide - June 2005

Pre-wedding pampering packages are nothing new. With a wedding just around the corner, I headed off to spend a couple of days down at BrookLodge in the quiet, grassy hills of Co. Wicklow... continue reading.

Daily Mirror - February 2005

When people mention the word 'Oasis' I automatically think of the chain of high street fashion shops. But I learned the true meaning of the word when I stayed in the woderful BrookLodge Hotel & Spa... continue reading.

Zest Magazine 2005

The Wells Spa is well equipped, with a great selection of treatments by Carita and Decleor as well as Signature Wells Treatments... continue reading.

Irish Times - March 2005

We felt like postulants as we walked through the peaceful spa in our white robes and slippers, soft ambient music lapping over us, soothing hands guiding us... continue reading.

Food & Wine Magazine - March 2005

The driving force behind this extraordinary venture in Co. Wicklow is Evan Doyle, whose Strawberry Tree Restaurant in Killarney gained fame for a commitment to using wild... continue reading.

OK Magazine - May 2004

An exhausted Emma jets off to Ireland to rest up and enjoy one of their finest spas... There's something wonderfully decadent about taking yourself off for a weekend of fund and pampering in a fabulous hotel... continue reading.

The Independent - June 2004

Once upon a time (well it reads like a bit of a fairy-tale), there were three Irish brothers, Bernard, Eoin and Evan Doyle. The first was a chartered surveyor, the second a publisher and the third owned the fashionable Strawberry Tree Restaurant in Killarney... continue reading.

Sunday Independent - May 2004

Early to rise and early to bed make a male healthy and wealthy and dead. You'll be under the ground long enough so you might as well live a little while you're here... continue reading.


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