Every aspect of our stay at Melanie's house was spectacular. Her house is beautiful exactly as the pictures show and our favorite room was the sunroom next to the kitchen where we spent our mornings drinking coffee and tea while we planned our day in Dublin. On 2 occasions were late leaving because it was such a nice setting especially in the morning. Melanie works and left every day before we got up each morning.

From the moment we arrived, I knew this was going to be a special place because she has a book on her counter with literally everything you need to know about Dublin to have a great time including all the practical information about the train to town (a 3 to 5 minute walk) restaurants both in town and also several places nearby.

The first thing I did was make photos of all the interesting pages of her book which we constantly used during our stay.
Our room was great with a large comfortable bed and an exceptional amount of storage/ closet space which was important because I'm sure we won the award for the most luggage. The guest rooms have a private bathroom and Melanie truly opens her entire home up to guests.

She also leaves a great variety of food for guest each morning (yogurt, cereal, fruit, etc.) and of course a sheet of paper on the counter with a list of everything. She is a lawyer so there is information for every possible thing you could need.

With all this being said what will make your stay as good or better than anywhere you have every been is Melanie. She is smart, funny, interesting, and extremely well traveled and generous. Each evening when we came back from the city she was awake and we had time to chat with her a bit about our day and a variety of interesting and wide ranging topics and that time with her was by far the best part of our trip. We actually went to the criminal court building on our last day and observed a few very interesting trials.

She helped us in many ways regarding transportation, taxis, mailing packages home to the US and I don't think we ever ask her anything she didn't know.

I was raised in a home that had many parties and frequent guest over the years and I thought I knew a fair amount about being a good host. Melanie takes it to a new level. Do yourself a favor. If at all possible book some time with her. It will be one of the best decisions you ever made and you trip will be better also.