Our Kilkee Hotels + Accommodation Guide: 5 Places Ye’ll Love In 2024

If you’re in search of the best hotels in Kilkee, our Kilkee hotels and accommodation guide should tickle your fancy!

Thinking of booking yourself a holiday in Kilkee? Fab idea! This lovely little beach resort offers a taste of the past (the heyday of Irish holidays in the late 19th and early 20th century).

There’s plenty of things to do in Kilkee, from its natural swimming pools, spectacular vantage points, expanse of golden sands, the Kilkee cliff walk and much more on offer.

Below, you’ll find everything from some very fancy Kilkee hotels to some gorgeous guesthouses where you’ll feel right at home.

Our favourite hotels in Kilkee

The first section of the guide contains our favourite accommodation and hotels in Kilkee. These are places that one of the Irish Road Trip team has stayed in and raved about.

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1. Kilkee Bay Hotel

The Kilkee Bay Hotel is a fabulous base that will help you make the most of your stay in the town. You’re close to the beach and the cliff walk and you’re a stone’s throw from many of the best places to visit in Clare, too!

The airy, spacious rooms include TVs, tea/coffee-making facilities and ensuite bathrooms with free toiletries. Your breakfast can be the full Irish, complete with wheaten bread and mouth-watering sausages or something lighter, if you fancy!

Darby’s Bistro and Pub prides itself on the selection of fresh, locally sourced food it provides to diners – steaks, mussels and more. The pub and bistro features occasional live music and there’s a large-screen TV showing sports.

If you’re in search of Kilkee hotels that make the perfect base for an adventure, you can’t go wrong with a weekend spent here.

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2. Bay View Hotel Kilkee

The award-winning, family run Bay View is one of our favourite hotels in Clare and it has been in the Hickie family since the 1880s and is a great place to unwind.

Beautifully decorated, the double rooms offer visitors spectacular views of the beach and are ensuite with free wi-fi. To eat, you can opt for the Pier Restaurant run by head chef, Aidan Feeney. The restaurant looks out over the bay and has its original parquet flooring.

The perfect spot for an intimate meal deux a deux, the menu offers diners locally sourced, traceable ingredients with everything cooked to order. Choose from seafood chowder, the Black Angus beefburger or the Wild Atlantic catch of the day.

Hickies Bar is a lively, traditional Irish bar, where you’ll be able to listen to live music every Saturday night, and more often in the summer months. If you’re in search of Kilkee hotels for a special occasion, you can’t go wrong with a night at the Bay View.

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3. Kilkee Town House

After a boutique hotel experience? The Kilkee Town House is a refurbished hotel that offers its guests quality, comfort, fine food and personal service.

The rooms and bathrooms are tastefully decorated, and it makes a great base from which to explore the beautiful surrounding countryside.

Make sure you book in for an afternoon tea – home-made fruit scones, fresh butter and local preserves, accompanied by tea sipped in a gentile room that will take you back in time.

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4. BlueTit Lodge 

Okay, no sniggering at the back there, please! Titlodge is a Kilkee bed and breakfast accommodation with a wonderful garden and free wi-fi throughout.

It has spacious rooms and the breakfast served to guests offers home-made produce. It is in a secluded location, while close enough to facilities, so offers visitors peace and quiet to make the most of their stay in Kilkee. 

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5. Hilltop B & B

Hilltop B & B is located in the Centre of Loophead Peninsula, and is an eye-catching property, furnished and decorated to a very high standard.

Some of its rooms feature views of the sea or river, and there’s a shared lounge where you can exchange experiences with your fellow tourists.

Guests rave about the breakfasts – home-made wheaten bread, and fresh, wholesome foods. Packed lunches and sandwiches are also available should you want to prepare yourself for cliff walks or a day’s bird watching. 

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What accommodation in Kilkee have we missed?

I’ve no doubt that we’ve unintentionally missed out on some brilliant accommodation in Kilkee in the guide above.

If you have any places to stay in Kilkee that you’d like to recommend, let me know in the comments section below.

FAQs about the best hotels in Kilkee

Since publishing our guide to the best things to do in Kilkee many years ago, we’ve had questions asking everything from what are the best hotels in Kilkee for a special occasion to which ones have a pool.

In the section below, we’ve popped in the most FAQs that we’ve received. If you have a question that we haven’t tackled, ask away in the comments section below.

What are the best hotels in Kilkee?

So, there are only 3 hotels in Kilkee: the Bay View Hotel Kilkee, the Royal Marine Hotel and the Kilkee Bay Hotel.

What are the best places to stay in Kilkee if you’re visiting for the first time?

If you’re going with a friend or as a couple, I’d argue that one of the Kilkee hotels are your best bet. If you’re travelling on your own, one of the B&Bs in Kilkee will act as a nice home from home.