CONSUMER
Dublin Four Seasons goes on-line
05-10-2000
by Elaine Larkin
The Four Seasons Hotel may not be opening until early next year, but the public can already take a virtual tour of the most expensive hotel ever built in Ireland.
Visitors to the Four Season Web site www.fourseasons.com can choose between entering the Four Seasons Web site or visiting the newest Four Seasons hotels and resorts. Visitors who click on the latter will find information under future openings on the Ballsbridge hotel, which has 259 guest rooms, including six greenery-filled Conservatory rooms, and 67 suites as well as a Health Club and luxurious spa, with a conservatory with a sunken landscaped garden adjacent to the swimming pool.
A click on the Tour gives the option of viewing the lobby, guestrooms, restaurants and lounges, recreation and meetings and banquets. Visitors are invited to explore at their own pace and zoom in for a closer look by clicking on different parts of the image.
General Manager John Brennan said that photographs of the exterior, guest room and bathroom were all taken in the Dublin hotel. He admitted, however, that the other photographs on the Web site are of the interiors of other Four Seasons hotels.
He denied that use of the photographs for the Dublin Four Seasons was misleading. He pointed out that the same designer has been used for the Four Seasons and that the rooms were the same from a "styling perspective". He explained that the other rooms could not be photographed at the time as they were unfurnished. But, he added, the Web site changes weekly as new photographs and features are made available.
The Four Seasons Dublin hotel can be viewed at: www.fourseasons.com/locations/Dublin
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