I stayed at the Kingfisher Townhouse for a couple of nights in January, on what was my first visit to the Emerald Isle. I arrived here at around 9.45am, check in was not until 3pm, but i was allowed to leave my small bag with them in reception an come back later to check in. From where you are here on Parnell Street, there is a big Tesco's next door as well as other eateries/shops/bars within stones throw away. To be fair the location was good as you are around the corner from O'Connell Street, which is a major street for shopping/eateries etc and is also where the airport link buses stop. As well as this you are only 10/15 minutes walk from the Temple Bar area. I had a good room on the second floor, the stairs leading up to the room are quite narrow. The room itself was quiet yet it was cold an so had to use the electric wall heater. You have tea/coffee making facilities also in the room. The tv remote control is the strangest remote i have ever used, and the most annoying too - as it does not have any numbers on it just a up an down button which means that when you want to watch the tv you have to scroll through all the tv channels, i had about 400 channels, out of which i guess about half of them worked, an from that alot of the channels repeated themselves, as there was about 12 itv channels all from different regions of the UK. An also a blue rectangular box would come up on the bottom on the screen telling you what is on next which was a waste of time also as it didn't stay on long enough to read it and also it was always wrong as the time on the tv was out by an hour - in all the countries i have been to all over the world, i have never seen a tv or remote like it, its ridiculous. Just program the tv with 5 channels, job done. The room was also a bit dated and the furniture in there was mismatched, like everything was just thrown together, nothing matched. The bed was a small double, an not a standard double, but it was comfortable. If you have Breakfast here, it is served in the Kingfisher Restaurant next door from 9am to 1pm - you have to get a slip of paper from reception prior to going an give it to the waitress/server when ordering. You have a choice from a brief menu, but i can recommend the full Irish Breakfast, it was ideal and just want you want to start the day (see photo). I would get there for 9am every morning and at that time there would be about a dozen people already in there, an it would start to fill up from around 9.30am onwards. Its not that big in size inside, as there is only about 18 tables, some of which only seat two people. The reception is manned 24 hours, and i found that all the staff were always on hand if and when called upon for any questions that i had especially the lovely Morgana, who was very helpful. You have to hand your key in at reception everytime you leave the Kingfisher. I had a 4pm return flight and so i checked out at just before 12pm (check out is up to 12pm), i left my bag at reception an collected it just before 4pm.…