Awards & Accolades

The Resort: Awards and Accolades

MICHELIN Guide: Three MICHELIN Keys

Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards: #1 Resort Europe

Forbes Travel Guide: Five-Star rating

The Virgin Media Business Gold Medal Awards: Ireland’s Five Star Resort

The Virgin Media Business Gold Medal Awards: Ireland’s Five Star Chef of the Year – Mike Tweedie

The Virgin Media Business Gold Medal Awards: Ireland’s Favourite Play to Stay – Munster

World Travel Awards: Ireland’s Leading Hotel 2024

World Mice Awards: World’s Best Corporate Retreat Hotel 2024

World Mice Awards: Europe’s Best Corporate Retreat Hotel 2024

Leading Courses: Golfers’ Choice Awards 2024 – The Best 18-hole golf clubs (ROI)

Food & Wine Global Tastemakers Award: Best International Hotels for Food and Drinks – Adare Manor #5 of 10

Modern Luxury Travel Awards: Best Golf Course & Recreation Resort – Adare Manor #3

Golf World: Top 100 Parkland Courses in the UK and Ireland – Adare Manor #2

The Resort: Awards and Accolades

Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards: #1 Resort Europe

Forbes Travel Guide: Five-Star rating

Andrew Harper Award: Best Country House Hotel

The Virgin Media Business Gold Medal Awards: Ireland’s Five Star Resort

The Virgin Media Business Gold Medal Awards: Ireland’s Best Fine Dining Hotel Restaurant

Irish Accommodation Services Institute: The IASI 5 Star Supreme Award

Irish Independent: Hall of Fame list after being named No. 1 hotel in Ireland in their ‘Hot 100 list’ in 2022.

Michelin Guide 2023: One Michelin Star – The Oak Room

Hi Style.ie Hair and Beauty Awards: Best Spa Therapist – Jade O’Doherty

Food & Wine Global Tastemakers Award: Best International Hotels for Room Service – Adare Manor #6 of 10

Food & Wine Global Tastemakers Award: Best International Hotels for Food – Adare Manor #4 of 10

The Telegraph: Fairytale Irish castles – 13 best places to stay in Ireland

Ebony: Eco-Friendly Hotels for A Green Travel Experience

Wine Spectator’s 2023 Restaurant Awards:  Best of Award of Excellence – The Oak Room  

Wine Enthusiast: 12 of the Best Hotels in the World for Whiskey Lovers

Hemispheres Readers’ Choice Awards: Top 3 Best European Hotels

Hemispheres Readers’ Choice Awards: Top 3 Best International Spa

Travel and Leisure: T+L 500 list of the best properties worldwide 2023

The Resort: Awards and Accolades

Bar of the Year Awards: Cocktail Bar of the Year – The Tack Room at Adare Manor  

BRIDES: The 10 Most Unique Hotel Proposal Packages Around the World  

Building and Architect of the Year Awards: Building of the Year – The Padel Club  

Building and Architect of the Year Awards: Building of the Year 2022 – Tourism, Leisure & Hospitality – The Padel Club  

Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards: #1 Resort in the World  

Elite Traveler’s 2022 Top Suites:  Gold List 2022  

Food & Wine Restaurant of the Year Awards 2022: Hotel Restaurant of the Year –  The Oak Room at Adare Manor

GQ Magazine: The best hotels in the UK and Ireland to stay in this year  

Health & Safety Excellence Award: Hotel & Leisure – Adare Manor Resort  

Hotels Above Par: The Best Boutique Hotels in Ireland

IMAGE Business of Beauty 2022: Best Spa Silver: The Spa at Adare Manor  

Irish Independent: #1 Hotel in Ireland in the ‘Top 100 Hotels’ list  

Irish Restaurant Awards: Limerick’s Best Hotel and Restaurant 2022  

Irish Tatler Spa Awards: Munster Spa of the Year

Irish Tatler Spa Awards: The Innovation Award  

Irish Times Food Oscars 2022: Sommelier of the Year – Jonathan Jonsson, The Oak Room at Adare Manor

Limerick Chamber Regional Business Awards 2022: Excellence in Customer Experience Award

LUXE Global Awards 2022: Best Authentic Experience Hotel Globally

LUXE Global Awards 2022: Best Luxury Castle Hotel

Men’s Journal: Best Hotel Whiskey Collections to Sample Around the World

Michelin Guide 2022: One Michelin Star – The Oak Room  

Travel and Leisure: T+L 500 list of the best properties worldwide 2022  

Wine Spectator’s 2022 Restaurant Awards:  Best of Award of Excellence – The Oak Room    

World Travel Awards: Ireland’s Leading Hotel 2022

Golf: Awards and Accolades

Golf World: Top 100 World Resorts: #1 in Ireland, #3 in Great Britain and Ireland

ISO’s International Sustainability Standard 20121: The Golf Course at Adare Manor 

LUXE Global Awards 2022: Best Luxury Golf Resort

Quintessentially: The World’s Best Luxury Golf Hotels

World Golf Awards: Ireland’s Best Golf Course 2022

World Golf Awards: Ireland’s Best Golf Hotel 2022

The Resort: Awards and Accolades

Condé Nast Traveler: Gold List 2021

Irish Independent: Fab 50 list of Ireland’s 50 Best Places to Stay in 2021

TripAdvisor: Travellers’ Choice Award 2021

Michelin Guide 2021: One Michelin Star – The Oak Room

Travel and Leisure: T+L 500 list of the best properties worldwide 2021

AA: Inspectors Choice Hotel – 5 Red Star Award 

AA: Rosette Award from Culinary Excellence – 2-Rosette restaurant  

Wine Spectator’s 2021 Restaurant Awards:  Best of Award of Excellence – The Oak Room  

Wine Spectator’s 2021 Restaurant Awards: Award of Excellence – The Carriage House Restaurant 

STELLA Awards 2021: Finalist, Best Hotel/Resort, International and US Territories 

Travel and Leisure: Top 10 Resort Hotels in the U.K. and Ireland 

World Travel Awards: Ireland’s Leading Hotel 2021 

Food and Wine Awards: Best Cocktail Experience 2021 – The Tack Room at Adare Manor  

Signum Virtutis Seal of Excellence: Seven Stars Luxury Hotels & Resort

Whisky Magazine and the Icons of Whisky: Whisky Hotel Bar of the Year  – The Tack Room At Adare Manor

Golf: Awards and Accolades

Golf Monthly: UK&I Top 100 Courses – Top 5 Irish courses & #1 Irish parkland 2021

Golf Digest: Editor’s Choice award for ‘Best Golf Resorts in Great Britain and Ireland’ 2021

Today’s Golfer: Top 100 Ireland Courses & #1 Irish parkland 2021

Golf World: Top 100 Resorts in Great Britain and Ireland: #1 in Ireland, #3 in Great Britain and Ireland

STELLA Awards 2021: Silver Medal, Best Golf Resort, International and US Territories 

World Golf Awards: Ireland’s Best Golf Course 2021  

World Golf Awards: Ireland’s Best Golf Hotel 2021 

IAGTO: Outstanding Service Award 2021

The Resort: Awards and Accolades

Condé Nast Traveler: Gold List 2020

Icons of Whiskey: Hotel Bar of the Year 2020

Irish Independent: Reader Travel Awards for ‘Ireland’s Favourite Hotel’ 2020

IMAGE Business of Beauty Awards: Best Spa, Bronze Medal for The Spa at Adare Manor 2020

Michelin Guide 2020: Sommelier Award – Jurica Gojevic

Michelin Guide 2020: One Michelin Star – The Oak Room

World Travel Awards: Ireland’s Leading Hotel 2020

Elite Traveler: Top 100 Suites

Travel + Leisure: World’s Best

Red Spa Guide: Best Spas of 2020

Brides: Most Romantic Ireland Hotels of 2020

The Points Guy: Best Hotels in Ireland

Suitcase: Best Hotels to Stay in Ireland

Golf: Awards and Accolades

Golf Digest Ireland: Top 100 Ranked Irish Golf Courses – No.10

Golf Digest US: Editor’s Award for ‘Best Golf Resorts in GB and Ireland 2020’

Golf Week: Top 40 Modern UK & Ireland- No.26

Golf World: Ireland Top 50 – No.12

Golf World: Top 100 UK & Ireland – No.63

IAGTO: European Golf Resort of the Year 2020

IAGTO: Hotel Experience Award 2020

Irish Golfer: Best 100 Holes in Irish Golf: Hole 15 & 16

Irish Independent: The Top 50 Holes in Irish Golf – No.9 Hole 18

NCG: Top 100 UK & Ireland – No.59

The Stella Awards: Best Golf Resort Bronze Medal 2020

World Golf Awards: Ireland’s Best Hotel 2020

World Golf Awards: Ireland’s Best Golf Course 2020

World Golf Awards: World’s Best Clubhouse 2020

The Resort: Awards and Accolades

AA: Inspectors Choice Award – 5 Stars

AA Ireland: Hotel of the Year 2019

ALCI Landscape Awards: Best Commercial Development 2019

Bar of the Year Awards: Outstanding Whiskey Experience 2019 – The Tack Room

BRIDES: Best Spas in Europe for a Pampering Escape

Condé Nast Traveler Readers Choice Awards: #1 Resort in Europe

Condé Nast Traveler Readers Choice Awards: #5 Resort in the World

Condé Nast Traveler: The 21 Most Romantic Places to Stay in the World

CNN International: ‘Best Castle Stays in Ireland: Where to Live Like Royalty’

Departures: ‘The Best Meal We’ve Had This Year’

Departures: ‘Hotels That Make You Feel Like You’re on the Set of Downton Abbey’

Elite Traveler: 2019 ‘Top 100 Hotels’

Food & Wine Awards: Hotel Restaurant of the Year 2019 – The Oak Room

Forbes: ‘Five Unexpected Leaf Peeping Destinations This Fall’

Grazia: Best Spas in the World Right Now

Icons of Whiskey – Hotel Bar of the Year 2019

IMAGE: Best Beauty Therapist 2019 – Silver Medal (Michelle Lane)

International World Cocktail Championships – Silver Medal – ‘Santa’s Secret Treat’ Cocktail – Ariel Sanecki

Irish Craft Cocktails – 2nd Place, Best Cocktail Bar, Munster – The Tack Room

Irish Restaurant Awards: Best Wine Experience (Limerick) – The Oak Room

Irish Restaurant Awards: Best Cocktail Experience (National) – The Tack Room

Irish Tatler Spa Awards: Munster Spa of the Year

Irish Tatler Spa Awards: Overall Spa of the Year

Limerick Leader: Persons of the Month (August) – Adare Manor

LUX Life Hotel & Spa Awards: Best Luxury Hotel & Golf Resort 2019 – Munster

Quantas Travel Insider: Storybook Places You Can Spend the Night In

Red Magazine: 2019 Spa Special ‘Best of Britain and Ireland’

Robb Report: ‘These 10 Grand, Historic Homes Are Now Hotels That Give Downton Abbey a Run For Its Money’

RSVP Spa Awards: Most Exclusive Spa

Seven Stars Luxury, Hospitality & Lifestyle Awards: Hotels & Resorts – Ireland – Winner

Stylist: 15 gorgeously romantic UK hotels to book for Valentine’s Day

TATLER: 2019 Tatler Travel Guide: ‘101 Hotels’

TheTaste.ie: The Best Spa Destinations in Ireland

Travel + Leisure: World’s Best Awards – Top 5 in UK & Ireland

Trip Advisor: ‘Top 25 Luxury Hotels – Ireland’

Upscale Living Magazine: ‘The Most Lavish Hotels for Solo Travelers’

Wine Spectator: ‘Best of Award of Excellence’ – The Oak Room

World Travel Awards: Ireland’s Leading Hotel 2019

Golf: Awards and Accolades

Golfscape: Top 100 Golf Courses 2019 – Top 10

Golf Digest US: Editor’s Award for ‘Best Golf Resorts in GB and Ireland 2019’

Golf Inc. Magazine Golden Fork Awards: 2nd place in the New Public Course category

Golf Inc.: Renovation of the Year 2019

Golf WRX: 10 Most Romantic Golf Destinations

IGTOA: Parkland Course of the Year 2019

Irish Golfer Magazine: Top 100 Irish Golf Courses 2019: No. 3

National Club Golfer: The One with the Perfect Weekend

National Club Golfer: Best Conditioning UK & Ireland

World Golf Awards: Ireland’s Best Golf Course 2019

The Resort: Awards and Accolades

ES Magazine: 2018 “Spa For Insomniacs”

London Evening Standard: “The nine spas you need to know about now”

Country & Town House: 2018 “The Spa Guide”

TATLER: 2018 “The Spa Guide 2018 – Best for Beauty”

Harper’s Bazaar: “A dozen of our favourite retreats in the British Isles”

Condé Nast Traveller: 2018 “The Spa Guide”

Country Life: “Where’s hot in 2018”

The Times: “The cool hotel guide”

The Sunday Times: “Hot Hotels 2018”

National Geographic Traveller UK 2018: Big Sleep Awards – The Lord of the Manor category winner

Country & Town House: Great British & Irish Hotels 2018

Condé Nast Traveler: 2018 “Hot List”

Condé Nast Traveler: 2018 Reader’s Choice Awards

Travel + Leisure: 2018 “It List”

Travel + Leisure: “50 Best Places to Travel in 2018”

AFAR: “Where to Go in 2018”

Robb Report: “Perfect 10”

Travel Agent Central: “The Hottest Hotel Renovations in Europe”

Elite Traveler: “New Hotels: Top 10”

Elite Traveler: 2018 “The Hot List”

Brides: “10 Most Stunning Wedding Destinations for 2018”

Departures.com – “Best, Editor-Approved Hotel Amenities”

Vogue – “Luxe Hotels That Cater to House Lovers”

National Cocktail Championships 2018 – Winner (5 trophies including the top award ‘National Cocktail Champion’)

Mattoni Grand Drink 2018 – Non-Alcoholic Cocktail – Winner

Virtuoso Best of the Best Awards 2018 – Hotel of the Year – Winner

World Luxury Spa Awards 2018 – Ireland’s Luxury Spa 2018 – Winner

World Travel Awards 2018: Ireland’s Leading Hotel – Winner

Seven Stars Luxury Awards 2018: Ireland – Winner

Gold Medal Awards: Supreme Winner – Winner

Gold Medal Awards: Ireland’s Five Star Hotel – Winner

Georgina Campbell Awards: Hotel of the Year – Winner

Yes Chef: Restaurant of the Year – The Oak Room – Winner
Yes Chef: Chef of the Year – Michael Tweedie – Winner
Yes Chef: Fine Dining Restaurant of the Year – The Oak Room – Winner
Yes Chef: Afternoon Tea of the Year – Adare Manor – Winner

AA: Star Rating – 5 Star

Golf: Awards and Accolades

IGTOA: IGTOA Golf Resort of the Year winner

World Golf Awards: World’s Best New Golf Course 2018

Golf World: Top 100 Resorts in Britain & Ireland 2018: No.8 Heritage Course

Golf Advisor: 18 Golf Course Renovations in 2018 To Look Out For

Golf Digest: Editor’s Award for ‘Best Golf Resorts in GB and Ireland 2018’

Golfscape: 18 Greatest Golf Courses 2018 – No. 1

Golfer’s Guide to Ireland: Best Golf Resort Ireland – Winner

Golf Monthly: 20 of the World’s Most Incredible Golf Courses

Golf Monthly: Top 100 Courses in the UK & Ireland: No. 25

Chad Clark: Certified 25 experience

GOLF.com: The Best Renovation of 2018 – Winner

Square Mile: Best New Course: British Isles – Winner

Irish Golfer magazine: Top 100 Irish Golf Courses: No. 3