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Hotel in Dublin, Ireland From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Clayton Hotel Burlington Road is a hotel in Dublin, Ireland. It is the largest hotel in central Dublin,[3] and the second largest in County Dublin after the Citywest Hotel.
Clayton Hotel Burlington Road | |
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Former names | Burlington Hotel, DoubleTree by Hilton Dublin – Burlington Road |
Hotel chain | Clayton Hotels |
General information | |
Classification | [1] |
Address | Burlington Road Upper Leeson Street Dublin 2 |
Coordinates | 53.3305869°N 6.2486434°W |
Current tenants | Dalata Hotel Group[1] |
Opening | 1972 |
Renovated | 2014 |
Owner | DekaBank[2] |
Design and construction | |
Developer | P.V. Doyle |
Other information | |
Number of rooms | 502[1] |
Number of suites | 2[1] |
Number of restaurants | 1[1] |
Website | |
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The hotel was developed on the site of what was formerly the grounds of Wesley College Dublin and included the Victorian houses - Burlington House, Tullamaine Villa and Embury House (formerly Burleigh House). It also encompassed the site of Mespil House, a large notable Georgian house which was demolished in the 1950s.[4][5]
Completed in 1972 by PV Doyle initially as part of Doyle Hotels and named the Burlington Hotel and nicknamed "the Burlo" by Dubliners,[6] the hotel was purchased by property developer Bernard McNamara in 2007 for €288 million.[7][8]
Following the post-2008 Irish economic downturn, Bank of Scotland (Ireland) took possession of the hotel from McNamara.[6] It was sold in 2012 to The Blackstone Group for €67 million, in what was Ireland's biggest property transaction since the start of the downturn.[6] The DoubleTree chain assumed management in 2013, and the hotel was rebranded as DoubleTree by Hilton Dublin – Burlington Road.[3] In 2016, Blackstone sold the hotel to the German investment bank DekaBank, and a 25-year lease to operate the hotel was granted to the Dalata Hotel Group, which rebranded it within their Clayton Hotels brand as Clayton Hotel Burlington Road in November 2016.[9][1][2]
The hotel's former nightclub, Club Anabel, gained notoriety in 2000 when the death of Brian Murphy took place during a fight outside the premises.
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