Ireland

Lots of buzz surrounding this new, super-posh Irish country hotel restored by American Kevin Mulligan.   Tatler and Town & Country rave about it. ""After 10 years and millions of euros, the lavish late-Georgian manor house has become the Emerald Ilse's most opulent hotel." [Town & Country]   "Ballyfin is bang on target.  It's downstairs-gone-upstairs, a Regency rock 'n' roller.  Of course it's smart.... There's also a wall around the whole property, all 600 acres of it.... The point is this:  Ballyfin is a hotel that doesn't look or behave like one. And, frankly, nothing befits a hotel more." [Tatler]  15 bedrooms, "discoveries at every turn."