Melanie was extremely sweet. She completely opened her home to us. Everything that was in her home was available for our use at any time. Her house is in a beautiful gated community which is a more suburban area of Dublin. It's surrounded by trees and has a very picturesque look to it. The room is upstairs and there is a guest bathroom with a large bath tub. Melanie provides plenty of toiletries, towels, and extra sheets. She also provides bread and jam/butter, fruit, coffee/tea in the morning. She has a sun room downstairs which gets amazing light and is perfect to just relax in and read. She also has a backyard, but weather in Dublin has proven to be a bit unstable so if you get a day in with no rain, might be nice to sit out there for a bit. She lives about a 2-3 minute walk from the light rail (which comes every few minutes) and the last stop is St. Stephen's Green so you're literally a few minutes away from the city center, it's really convenient. I had never been to Dublin and was hesitant that Melanie might live a bit far, but her house was much more convenient to get to the city center than another 5 star hotel that I've stayed at.