After welcoming over 6,000 guests through their doors since opening on Sunday August 12^th, the Carlton Shearwater hotel, Ballinasloe was a complete sell out for The Joe Dolan Show on Thursday night last. “Demand for tickets surpassed all our expectations, there has been great excitement over the past few weeks, and the show sold out 10 days ago and hotel accommodation is completely booked out by concert patrons” says General Manager, Dermot Birchall.

The show was an all seated, all ticket event, held in the Plaza Suite at the Carlton Shearwater hotel. According to Birchall, the hotel will become one of the prime entertainment events in the Midlands Region, with Pat Shortt already booked to play 4 nights, from October 10^th - 13^th.

The 4-star hotel is prominently located on the main bypass route through Ballinasloe on the Dublin to Galway N 6. The hotel which will provide this important gateway town to the West of Ireland with a state of the art purpose built hotel and dedicated conference and banqueting facility. Along with the recently developed Ballinasloe Marina this 4-star hotel development significantly enhances the tourism infrastructure in Ballinasloe.

The Carlton Shearwater Hotel has 104 fully air conditioned hotel bedrooms including 18 luxury executive suites which are also suitable for families and 2 deluxe suites for special occasions. Included in the development will be one of Irelands most extensive leisure clubs in the West of Ireland and Galway’s first dedicated ‘C’ Spa, Carlton’s own signature spa brand.

The leisure club, now taking membership from €650 features a 20-meter deck level indoor heated swimming pool and designated children’s area. Also included are a Jacuzzi, sauna and steam room. A full service gymnasium facility is fitted out with modern aerobic sports training and fitness equipment. The ‘C’ Spa includes 9 treatment rooms and a dedicated relaxation room.

The hotel’s main function room, ‘The Plaza Suite’, and the hotel business centre is purpose built to accommodate large functions and conferences up to 1,000 guests designed with an innovative and self-contained break-out garden terrace and drinks reception area. The Plaza Suite is flexible enough to split into two smaller function areas depending on the numbers.

The prominent design feature of the Carlton Shearwater Hotel is the glass atrium to the front of the property which also contains a dedicated and self-contained business centre, providing corporate clients with a host of medium-sized meeting room options.

A large majority of the staff are from Ballinasloe and the surrounding area. Our goal, under the able stewardship of our local management team, is to become a mainstay of the local community, both as an employer and as an integral part of the area’s tourism infrastructure.

With the addition of the Ballinasloe Hotel to the Carlton Hotel Group, employment in the group will rise to 800 staff; this also includes a strengthening of the group’s executive team in the areas of finance, operations and marketing, as the group organises the 4-star Carlton brand for further growth. Carlton are actively investigating similar new build and existing hotel opportunities at home and abroad in both city centre locations and resort destinations, throughout Ireland, the UK and Europe.