It's not often one extends a dress code to include one's car. But before visiting Ballyfin, I had read a review on their website which mentioned a custom of the staff, led by the butler, of lining ...

Full board rates start at €840 (Sun-Thu) or €965 (Fri & Sat) for two people, and include lunch on arrival, afternoon tea, pre-dinner drinks and dinner itself, Irish breakfast and use of the ...

Another first is that Ballyfin will open this Christmas due to demand from regulars.When the hotel just ... there’s tea in the afternoon, a drinks reception and dinner, then a full Irish ...

CAROLINE ALLEN takes a tour of Ballyfin House. ... If people were coming and going for lunch or afternoon tea all the time, it would lose that,” she says.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Ballyfin House is Conde Nast Traveller's best hotel in the world. Ensconced in a high, velvet-draped four-poster bed in the Butler ...

Generations of Cootes silently keep watch over Ballyfin’s stately Stair Hall. After a 90-year absence, the antique portraits were returned to their ancestral home, now resurrected as a lavish ...

For a few days, you can play at being Lord and Lady Ballyfin. Peak room rates from $815 to $2,173; includes full board, all amenities of the estate, drinks, laundry, unpacking service and WiFi.