John is an excellent host, and serves a generous breakfast. Our room was clean and comfortable. The nearby Bective Abbey is an unexpected treat. We stayed here on our last night of a 9 day Ireland vacation, and the location made for a fairly easy drive to the Dublin airport in the morning. There was fine traditional music at a pub down the road.
There are a couple of minor downsides. There is no WiFi. We did not have cell service, so we were using WiFi each night at our lodgings. This is not possible at John's. Second, the shared bathroom can get crowded, and it means that the stairs are noisy during the night, if guests are going up and down at late hours. Our sleep was a bit interrupted.
We would likely stay here again, because we liked John quite a lot. But it's really a 4.5 star rating by us, not a full 5 stars.