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WATCH Adare Manor Reopens and welcomes back first guests   

Paul Heery, General Manager (front left) and Colm Hannon, CEO (front right), pictured with fellow members of staff ready to greet guests at the reopening of the 5-Star Adare Manor. Alongside heightened health and safety protocols, the resort will debut new guest experiences and enhanced outdoor activities. Picture: Robbie Reynolds

 

WATCH Adare Manor Reopens and welcomes back first guests 

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Sisters, Elaine (left) Catherine and Claire Kelly, from New Inn, Co. Galway pictured enjoying the surrounding at the reopening of the 5-Star Adare Manor. Picture: Robbie Reynolds


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Adare Manor has reopened its doors to overnight guests. The property’s commitment to providing a ‘beyond everything’ experience will remain strong as new procedures are implemented to deliver the personalised service that guests have come to expect, with the safety and wellbeing of guests and employees as the top priority. Alongside heightened health and safety protocols, the property will debut new guest experiences and enhanced outdoor activities.

New Food & Beverage Experiences: Adare Manor has curated new food and beverage experiences for guests upon their return. Guests will discover new ways to dine on the property while also embracing the outdoor areas of the estate. New outdoor seating has been arranged on the Carriage House terrace overlooking the grounds and a new picnic series will launch on July 30th. A new picnic series will offer items from the resort’s highly popular Afternoon Tea menu, as well as oysters and champagne, sweet treats from a customised Adare Manor ice-cream stand, and more. All guest rooms and suites will continue to offer complimentary mini bar items, including Adare Manor chocolate bars and shortbread while all in-room dining menus will offer a varied selection for guests to choose from should they wish to dine in the privacy of their own rooms.

Enhanced Outdoor Activities: Ahead of Adare Manor’s reopening, the resort has enhanced its 840-acre grounds to ensure a beautiful setting for the return of open-air activities. The estate offers unparalleled open space across its extensive parklands and woodlands, all in a safe and relaxing environment. Guests will discover a vast array of outdoor activities such as walking, running and cycling trails, exploration of manicured gardens (formal French gardens, the arboretum, and walled gardens), several self-guided audio tours (historical tour, mindfulness meditation tour), horse and carriage tours, wildlife watching, fishing, archery, falconry, clay pigeon shooting, gun dog training experience, golf on the award-winning championship course which was designed by Tom Fazio and is the future host venue of the 2027 Ryder Cup, along with an array of new activities such as yoga, meditation, treasure hunts, and bush trail adventures.

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Leah Van Veen (left) with Eoin Farrar, Aine Folan and David Gale (right), members of staff pictured together enjoying a cycle at the reopening of the 5-Star Adare Manor. Picture. Robbie Reynolds

Updated Amenities: The only La Mer Spa in Ireland and UK will re-open at Adare Manor with new measures and training in place that will see revised luxury treatments that comply with the highest safety standards. The resort is also scheduled to open a new fitness and wellness facility on the estate in September where guests will be able to enjoy many brand-new activities. The Golf Course at Adare Manor has already re-opened with updated guidelines for players to follow on course.

New Overnight Packages: Whether visitors are planning a short stay at the celebrated resort, or looking to make Adare Manor their home base during an extended visit, the property is now offering new packages available for overnight guests:

  • Adare Manor Retreat: A two- or three-night stay in the manor house with a guaranteed upgrade to Deluxe Room, daily breakfast, candlelit seasonal dinner for two in the fine-dining Michelin Oak Room Restaurant, and dinner for two in The Carriage House Restaurant.
  • A Perfect Home Base: As an alternative to the manor house accommodations, Adare Manor is home to two- and four-bedroom self-catering Manor Lodges that sleep between 4-8 persons. All lodges have their own private entrance, dining room, living room and kitchenettes and provide a true home-away-from-home private stay, with access to all the amenities of the resort. The property is offering discounts on extended stays in the Manor Lodges including three nights with a 30% discount, five nights with a 40% discount and seven nights with a 50% discount.

Speaking today, Colm Hannon, Chief Executive, Adare Manor said: “We are delighted to reopen Adare Manor, today and the team are very much looking forward to welcoming guests back to the resort. We have new and enhanced experiences for guests to enjoy.  With the health and wellbeing of our team and guests always paramount, we have introduced additional welfare measures including the latest body temperature technology across the resort. We have also made a commitment to achieve GBAC STAR accreditation. In addition, we have a dedicated team of Resort COVID-19 Ambassadors coordinating our response, and this team will continue to oversee the implementation of all guidelines and measures required across the entire resort. In the current environment, we want to provide as much assurance as possible for our team and guests visiting the resort.”

COVID-19 Response:  During the property’s temporary closure, Adare Manor continued to support the local community by providing over 200 daily meals to University Hospital Limerick for the wonderful frontline staff and 70 meals daily to the local community to those that were cocooned and did not have family close by to assist them. Onsite, as part of its ongoing welfare initiatives to protect the health and wellbeing of its team and guests, the resort has introduced further measures, including new body temperature monitoring technology which can accurately calculate temperature to 0.3 of a degree, detecting elevated temperatures with no interruption to the individual. The thermal camera technology is installed in highly occupied areas of the resort, such as entry points.  They have also appointed a team of Resort COVID-19 Ambassadors to assist with the implementation of protocols to help ensure a safe and comfortable environment for guests and the Adare Manor team across the property. In addition, Adare Manor has implemented the highest standards of cleaning and safety and has committed to the GBAC STAR™ Facility Accreditation Programme, implementing the most stringent protocols for cleaning, disinfection and infectious disease prevention on the resort. This is the cleaning industry’s only outbreak prevention, response and recovery accreditation. To achieve GBAC STAR™ accreditation, Adare Manor will demonstrate compliance with the program’s 20 core elements, which range from standard operating procedures and risk assessment strategies to personal protective equipment and emergency preparedness and response measures. All updated protocols and safety guidelines will be updated online.

Adare Manor will continue to protect the health and well-being of their team and their families, guests and the local community of Adare against the spread of this virus.

About Adare Manor

Set on an 840-acre estate, Adare Manor in Co. Limerick is one of Ireland’s leading five-star castle properties. The resort re-opened in November 2017 following an extensive restoration, refurbishment and expansion programme over a 21-month period. The largest restoration project of its kind in Ireland, the renovation and expansion honors the building’s architectural heritage as a Neo-Gothic masterpiece while incorporating the latest in contemporary luxury. Most notably, the expansion included a new 42-bedroom wing, increasing accommodations to a total of 104 guest rooms, and a ballroom which can host up to 350 guests. The riverside demesne is also home to Ireland and the UK’s 1st and only La Mer Spa, elegant fine dining facilities including the luxury Michelin Star Oak Room restaurant, a championship golf course redesigned by award-winning designer Tom Fazio, trout fishing on the River Maigue and a host of other estate activities, including falconry, archery, and clay pigeon shooting, which will intrigue even the most experienced travelers. Situated in the heart of picturesque Adare Village in Co. Limerick, Adare Manor is surrounded by medieval ruins, walled gardens and winding woodland paths and just 25 minutes from Shannon International Airport. adare manor reopening 

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