OUR PICK - QC’s

The five rooms in Kate and Andrew Cooke’s restaurant with rooms, QC’s, are the grooviest in all of Kerry.

You don’t just want to stay in these rooms, you want to possess them, such is their astute luxury, their beyond - good finishing, their sense of escape. One of the secrets of their success maybe that the rooms and furnishings are slightly larger - than - normal - life, there is space for lying, lounging, bathing, sleeping, dreaming, sharing breakfast in the room.

God dammit, you can even stretch out and do your pilates and tai - chi

The coolest escape of 2012 no doubt about it.

pp 88  Ring of Kerry -- Caherciveen