SOME CALL THEM "Zombie Hotels" but I like to think of them as quiet and inexpensive four-star beds. You can get a room in the Burlington in Dublin for €79 without breakfast. You can stay in the Berkeley Court for €69 or move up to a junior suiterfor €119 and get ample room plus breakfast with your mid-week booking. The D4 at €50 a night is less than you might pay up for dinner and drinks up the street. As long as builders have to keep their hotels ticking over to earn out their tax breaks, these rock-bottom prices will deflate hotel revenues across Ireland.Ann Marie Hourihane -- "Inside the empty world of Ireland's zombie hotels" in the Opinion section of The Irish Times, 8 Feb 10.
