At the southern end of Dublin's Grafton Street, where the city's most walked thoroughfare dissolves into the creative energy of the surrounding quarter, a six-storey red-brick building presents a facade that manages to feel both contemporary and entirely of its Georgian-Victorian streetscape. The Grafton Hotel, which opened in 2021 as part of the Autograph Collection, was designed with interiors by the Dublin-based firm Douglas Wallace, working across 122 rooms and a cluster of food and beverage spaces that each carry a distinctly different register. The guest rooms layer deep cobalt carpet in a gold-wave pattern against dark-stained timber furniture, channelled leather armchairs in cognac, and pendant lighting drawn from a mid-century European hotel idiom — the effect closer to a well-appointed private club than a corporate city property. Brass detailing recurs throughout, tying the rooms to the lobby café below, where a fluted dark-bronze service counter sits beneath an oxidised copper canopy, teal velvet tub chairs arranged on encaustic tile flooring alongside curved tangerine banquette seating. The ground-floor bar pulls in a different direction entirely — tiered copper pendants, burgundy leather bar stools with brass footrings, arched lattice millwork, and botanical-print occasional chairs — assembling something closer to a reimagined Victorian Dublin pub than a hotel bar, which in this part of the city is exactly the right instinct.

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Nestled in the heart of the city centre at Dublin 2, our hotel is only a stone's throw from some of Dublin's most renowned bars and restaurants. Before embarking on some high-street shopping or local attractions, why not start your authentic Irish experience at our very own ‘Bartley's Bar & Restaurant’, a leading institution since the 1960s and sheltering some of the greats like Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. With pre-arrival contactless check-in to one of our 128 luxurious hotel rooms, you are free to explore everything Dublin has to offer at your own pace before returning for what is guaranteed to be a great night's sleep.