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The three-star, 22-room Anchor Guesthouse, situated at the south end of Lower Gardiner Street's hotel hub, features a subtle nautical theme. Owners Joan and Gerry Coin have been running this tidy hotel for more than a decade, and it's a well-run ship with a convenient location.
While the Anchor's exterior is late 19th-century brick, the interior is à la today, with cheerful yellow walls and modest wood furniture. And like many of the Georgian house-hotels in Dublin, the Anchor is comprised of a more than 200-year-old building in the front and a separate, 6- to 7-year-old "purpose-built" building in the back. The pros and cons of each are pretty self-evident. But we'd like to point out that the newer extension has an elevator and is accessible by car from a back alley. There's no ramp to the original home, and windows are quaintly original, read: not soundproofed.
In the end, both "wings" offer clean, comfortable rooms. It's up to you whether you require horsehair in the mortar of your walls or not. Yes, they really used to put horsehair in the walls. (It provide good insulation and smells good too!)
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