TERRIBLE! We had a really bad experience staying at Mary's, with many things that we were not at all happy with. We spent two weeks travelling around Ireland and this by far the worst. Would not recommend at all.
Here are just a few of our complaints:
-When we arrived; the house had a large bin outside, with the rubbish strewn all over the pavement.
-Mary said that we had booked two rooms, not three rooms (as indicated on our booking confirmation slip). When I asked her to say why she thought we had only booked two rooms she went silent on us. On arriving at the house we found only two beds so scurried around looking for extra bedding so one of us could sleep on the sofa in the lounge. Only later, reading through the fine-print, did we see another note saying that there were two showers and from this we eventually discovered the third room out at the back (a separate building altogether) with dirty sheets on the bed and used towels. So, at 11.30pm after long haul flights, we were there making up another bed in a hidden outhouse that Mary had not informed us about.
-The next morning we had a parking ticket that cost $100. Our car had been clamped so we spent the rest of the day sorting that out with the internet not working. Mary was not available and Mary's UK agent was not helpful at all. We wondered WHY Mary had not thought to leave a clear message in the hall or on any of her copious notes about the heating etc that wheel clamping was a very real danger that we should be aware of.
-While we were outside trying to figure out how to deal with the wheel clamp and no internet working at the house, a friendly neighbour, gave us a €1 parking voucher (which only house owners could buy, but Mary either didn't know about or wasn't interested in offering this to her tenants).
-There was no breakfast.
-We couldn't find a way to lock the back doors so slept with the doors unlocked.
-Mary sent copious notes, all with an underlying threat that if a hair was out of place her €80 deposit would be retained
-Mary sent muddled, confusing notes about the house without highlighting or even giving us any of the important stuff we needed to know (ie. parking restrictions)
-She is an absentee landlord, has an agent located in a different country (the UK) and the cleaner on the ground. Between them, the house is not a great place to stay, so all in all, we did not enjoy our time at Mary's. Most of our time in Dublin was spent dealing with issues relating to the house instead of enjoying a vibrant wonderful city.
We suggest you find somewhere else to save yourselves a lot of hassle as we did.