Just home from an amazing weekend in Dublin! Stayed in the Academy Plaza Hotel and considering the hotel was under construction this did not affect us at all! The rooms were modern and clean, with super comfy beds!!
The staff were very friendly and accommodating to all our needs. The food served at the hotel was to a high standard and very reasonably priced.
The location of the hotel is excellent and very central to everything, although we were not bothered by noise from the surrounding bars/restaurants!
We had an excellent stay and would recommend this hotel to anyone, we're already planning our return visit!
HERZ US! DUBLIN 08!

Very pleased with the hotel. Spotlessly clean and the beds were extremely comfortable. The only slight irritation was that I was told refurbishment was completely finished but not the case. There was still work going on but not really noticeable. Breakfast a bit chaotic if hotel is full, be prepared to wait a bit. Staff were very helpful at all times.

Abacus Restaurant in hotel was great, food delicious and there is an "Early Bird" offer before 19.30 and very reasonable. Location was excellent for bars etc. Grafton Street area is where the quality places are so worth visiting.

City Bus Tour recommended (can be picked up in front of the hotel) both informative and very amusing. Guinness factory was very interesting and I don't even drink!

Airbus took us from Airport to across to the road from hotel for 17euros return for both of us. Booked a return at the same time and saved money as a single journey is 6euros each way on the bus. Get all information you need from the airport as they are so helpful.

I last stayed here on a Thursday night for a Friday morning meeting in Dublin, but it's the hotel I most often use when visiting Dublin, and I would strongly recommend it.

I have stayed in this hotel before the re-modelling, and the quality of the new fit-out is far above that of the older decor. The beds in particular have improved from being good before to being superb now. The room I had was air-conditioned, I could set the temperature myself, and unlike many hotel a/c systems the unit was quiet enough to leave on at night.

An added bonus - there is free wireless internet access in all of the rooms! Some services are limited for security reasons, but for checking mail, web-browsing or connecting to a company VPN, it works a treat. It's refreshing to find a hotel that doesn't try to gouge its clients for what is becoming a necessity in business accommodation.

Some rooms are a bit tight, but I have seen smaller. (To those used to the cavernous rooms in west-coast US hotels, any Irish hotel room will seem small). I have been informed that when the hotel is fully completed (the older rooms are now being remodelled), there will be more larger-sized rooms available.

Speaking of which, while I was told that there is still building work going on, there was no obstruction to the front of the hotel when I visited, and not a workman to be seen anywhere.

The front desk staff are friendly and helpful - unlike many other places I've stayed, you get the feeling that they're interested. Check-in was quick and efficient, but did require a pre-authorisation of my credit-card. Check-out, which I always think is more important to get right, was quick and faultless.

On the ground floor there's a Chinese restaurant ("Abacus"), and a spacious, modern bar area, with hot food service. I ate in the Chinese, and it was excellent: far, far above the "hotel restaurant" you usually see in this price range. The early-bird menu was excellent value, and service was also top-notch.

Some things still need a bit of work: the hallways and stairwells have not been painted yet, but where it matters: the beds, facilities, the service, and the location, the Academy is right on the money. You'll spend far more in Dublin and get a lot less.

We arrived and didn't think the hotel was open because of all the scafolding and construction that was going on. We had to enter through a side alley that felt very unsafe.
I requested 3 beds in a room for myself and to older teenagers only to find out they don't do that and the rooms are too small for 3 beds in a room.
The rooms are very small with hardly any room to set your suitcase and have space to walk between it and the furniture. The rooms look into another building (we looked into a medical office exam room). Because you are so close to the next building the room was very dark and felt like a cave.
On the plus side the beds were very comfortable and the rooms were recently renovated.
The location in Dublin was excellent and when I complained about the sleeping arraingements with 2 grown teenagers and myself in only 2 beds they did give us an extra single room at no charge.
I'm sure the hotel will look very modern and sleek when finished but it was all construction everywhere but the bedrooms when we were there.