The Westbury in Dublin 2 hosts conferences, board meetings, product launches, private dinners and receptions for groups from two people up to 200 guests. The hotel has seven meeting and event rooms on its first floor, led by the Grafton Suite, a ballroom of 224 square meters. It stands on Balfe Street in central Dublin and is run by The Doyle Collection.
Seminars and company events
The hotel presents its rooms for think-tanks, high-profile conferences, private dinners, fashion shows and gala evenings. All rooms carry conferencing technology and Wi-Fi, and the walls hold contemporary works from the Doyle family collection. Organisers can ask for the capacity chart as a download or request the brochure. The events team answers by phone and email.
The Grafton Suite is the main room. It takes up to 200 guests theatre style or 150 for a banquet, with classroom, boardroom, U-shape and cocktail layouts also offered. Guests enter through a private foyer with its own cocktail bar. The suite adds two more bars and three balconies, and daylight reaches the room through large windows facing the Creative Quarter and the Powerscourt Townhouse.
Rooms and capacities
All seven rooms sit on the first floor and have daylight and Wi-Fi.
Grafton Suite, 224 square meters: 180 theatre in the chart, 150 banquet, 80 cabaret, 80 classroom, 55 U-shape, 46 boardroom. Kildare Suite, 56 square meters: 45 theatre, 40 banquet, 24 classroom. Suffolk/Dawson Suite, 60 square meters: 40 theatre, 22 boardroom. Clarendon Suite, 43 square meters: 30 theatre, 14 banquet. Wicklow Suite, 36 square meters: 20 theatre, 12 classroom. Trinity Suite, 36 square meters: 20 around a boardroom table or a dinner table. Exchequer Suite, 25 square meters: a boardroom for 8.
The smaller rooms suit steering committees, interviews, breakout groups and private dining for up to 20 guests.
Accommodation
Guests stay in the hotel's own rooms and suites, from classic rooms with a king bed or twin beds to deluxe rooms and suites, including two and three bedroom suites and the P.V. Doyle Suite. The site does not give a total bedroom count, so ask the team how many rooms can be held for a group. The hotel also lists a transfer service at Dublin Airport.
Catering
The hotel's culinary team prepares the food for each event. Options run from lighter breaks to plated dinners, with cocktail and canape receptions in the Grafton Suite. The house restaurant is WILDE, with Balfes Bar and Brasserie and The Sidecar as other places to eat and drink. The hotel says it sources ingredients from local producers, and its meeting rooms have recycling bins, tap water in place of bottled water and lights switched off when empty.
Getting there
The address is Balfe Street, Dublin 2, D02 CH66. The hotel is in the center of the city, so most guests reach it on foot or by short taxi ride from the main stations and from Dublin Airport.
