Inchydoney Lodge and Spa
Ok so we were spoilt this weekend by the above mentioned 4 star hotel.
Upon arrival, management came out to greet us and personally take our bags to our room.
We were given one of the deluxe suites, the one on the top floor with the BEST view of the beach and surrounding sea/landscapes.
The room (or rooms) were to die for!
This is just the view from the lounge of the suite. You have a whole other section from the other side.
View from the four poster double bed edge.
Excuse the mess we had only just come back from a swim!
The lounge with our very own Nespresso machine, lovely!
So anyway, we immediately pulled everything out of our bags to find our swimwear and headed straight down to the Heated Seawater pool! You could not do "many" laps but the leisure facilities such as the jacuzzi's and power showers in the pool made up for this, the showers were like hands free massagers, bliss.We ate in Dunes Bar the first evening, and wow, the seafood and meat platters each were enough for two to share, we could not finish them, stunning and all locally sourced food!
As it was late enough when we arrived we hit the hay on the most spacious, comfortable and inviting four poster double bed.
Saturday morning we awoke fresh and went for breakfast, and then went for another swim and opened up those pores in the steam room.
What sets this spa hotel apart from another I have been too was that the ladies changing room was adequately supplied with Elemis products from Shower Gel, Shampoo, Conditioner to Cleanser, Toner and Body lotion, there were even cotton pads laid out with the cleanser/toner etc... and supplies were never low. Bliss. I was in my Elemis, I mean element.
We then went exploring the beach. We challenged the waves to get around the rocky outcrop (ok it was only a few cm's deep and the tide was on its way out), once we got to the other side we jogged nearly the full lenght of the beach as in above pic.
We dined again for lunch in Dunes Pub before we set off back into the spa for our treatments.
I had a Seawater Bath, it was lovely however I was overcome by the heat after getting out of the bath and could really have done with a cold shower to cool myself off as the humidity in the spa was too heavy for me after such an intense bathe, I must admit though the staff in the spa really looked after me and helped me ease the dizziness and nausea.
They even pushed back my second treatment until they felt I was ready for it.
And ready I was, a Classical Algae Wrap, DIVINE!
We retired to our room for a quick nap before getting ready for dinner in the Gulfstream Restaraunt.
I had crabmeat with mango jelly as a starter, monkfish ( a bit too rubbery for me) and a chocolate dessert. Had a few drinks and again we were so overcome by being full and for some reason absolutely tired we retired to our room, where we curled up on the bed and watched the tv and then were out like a light.
For our final breakfast we went all out, tried a little bit of most things, just to sample it.
Again divine.
We then went back to the spa for our final treatments.
I had a stunning Elemis facial which I didn't want to end, and as I paid for it I was bought a little present from my fab husband.
Lets hope it helps reduce these feckin wrinkles! I am not that old but have "ageing" skin. Must be all that stress.
We packed our things and rested up in our room for a little while as lets face it we did spend a weekend eating a little more than we usually do, something to do with all that lovely fruit all around the hotel between meals!
Our very friendly manager Peter who had gone out of his way all weekend to make sure we had no problems met us as we checked out and gave us a lovely jar or Inchydoney Jam!
We got back to Limerick and were absolutely shattered, how on earth can a relaxing weekend away zap so much energy out of you?
We were greeted by two very mucky pups who had spent the weekend driving their minders demented!
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