Hotel building boom will add over 1,300 beds to city centre

BAM’s Sullivan’s Quay development will include a 220-room hotel.

The Maldron Hotel on South Mall and Parnell Place will be the first of the new wave of Cork hotels to open.

Developers Clarendon is building a major new office development on Horgan’s Quay close to Kent Station called HQ. It will include a 136-bed hotel with a rooftop garden.

Sick and Sore Ltd plan to open the hotel and restaurant on a 105m vessel which previously operated as a luxury cruise ship on the River Rhine.

It will add a further 195 rooms through a new boutique hotel facing Patrick’s Quay.

Also in the city centre plans have been lodged to change the former Classic Bar on Marlboro street into a 29-bed hotel.