And almost as quick as you can say “Boo” Halloween has been dumped and replaced by Christmas. No hard feelings eh?
We certainly don’t. Christmas is our favourite time of the year at Hotel Isaacs. Glitter, tinsel, trees, lights, baubles…you name it, we have it! Yes, our elves have been busily decorating our boutique hotel the past week and we can’t wait to show you. We like to create our own Winter Wonderland at this time of the year. Our courtyard will soon be a glitter with lights and no doubt, our huge Christmas tree will steal the show at Cork City’s only waterfall. Our biggest challenge is trying to restrain ourselves from hitting play on the Christmas playlist. We might last one more week before we cave to the delights of silly season. The chefs are already putting the final touches to our Christmas themed menu and did someone mention after dinner cocktails in Ireland’s number one cocktail bar, Cask?
In the meantime, if you haven’t already gotten into the Christmas spirit and considered a trip down to Ireland’s real capital, allow us to give you some pretty good reasons why you deserve to put Cork top of your “Nice List”:
1. Christmas Shopping
We believe there are two ways of attacking the Christmas shopping. One involves sitting at home frantically scrolling through pages and pages of potential gift ideas but endlessly doubting whether those slippers will fit Uncle Jim or how about that pyjamas for auntie Margaret- does it look too tacky? If only you could feel the material? And on and on it goes with arduously slow progress. The easier and infinitely better option is to make Christmas shopping an event that is easy, stress-free and fun (yes, it can be). Our city-centre hotel located in the heart of Cork’s Victorian Quarter is within walking distance of everywhere you need to be. Interested in hitting the high street stores? No problem, you’ll be spoiled for choice on Opera Lane with River Island, H&M, New Look and Next! Looking for larger department stores? Check out Brown Thomas and Marks and Spencer! Or, want to get something more unique that can’t be found anywhere else? Cork is literally brimming with independent stores, be it homemade Turkish Delights from Sultan Delight (right across the road from us), the quirky alcove of the Mother Jones Flea Market around the corner and the truly unique craft designs from family-owned Unbound.
