Travel Writers
Iskeroon is has been featured in a number of newspaper
and magazine articles – here is a selection:
Condé Naste Traveler, October 2007
There's no finer setting in Ireland than that of Iskeroon, a beach-house
chic three bedroomed B&B in Caherdaniel, set amid four acres
of rambling subtropical gardens on the Ring of Kerry's tranquil
Derrynane Harbour. Indoors, the palette is bold and warm; outside,
the rugged coast gives on to wide, deserted crescents of sand. Seamus,
the family dog, will lead you to hidden paths along the shore in
the peerless morning light.
The Observer, May 2003
This UK Sunday newspaper listed 20 of Ireland's "most elegant,
welcoming and intriguing hotels, B&Bs and holiday homes"
and Iskeroon was listed as number one. "There's beauty in simplicity
and Iskeroon does it better than most in this stunning part of Ireland."
The Washington Post, 2004
David and Geraldine Hare's wonderfully light B&B has an arrestingly
beautiful setting overlooking Derrynane Harbour. It's got the best
of both worlds: tranquil and yet just a short walk to the beach
or a lovely pub, or the pier for cruises to the Skelligs. Breakfasts
are excellent here, too. With only three rooms, this place gets
sold out long in advance, so book early.
Travel and Leisure, June 2005
You can "do" the Ring of Kerry a thousand times and Iskeroon
will never reveal itself. Hidden 2½ miles below the coastal
road at the bottom of a steep, skinny lane bedeviled with switchbacks,
the most adorable B&B in Ireland does not believe in signs,
and why should it? Iskeroon's worldly (not sugary) brand of adorableness
and utterly secluded seafront location ensure that it never wants
for business. It's the kind of place where people have standing
reservations for the same room for the same dates year after year.
What that means for you if you've never stayed there is that your
only hope of getting in is if ... somebody dies. An hour from Kenmare,
in what connoisseurs of the Ring consider the prettiest pocket of
the Iveragh Peninsula, Iskeroon was built in 1936 to accommodate
overflow guests of the Earl of Dunraven and his American wife, Nancy,
who summered in a 19th-century house a few hundred yards up the
shore. (Yes, these are the same Dunravens whose family owned Adare
Manor in County Limerick, before it was sold to Floridians from
Palm Beach and became a luxury resort.) Nancy Yuille, as she was
known before she married, put her famously green thumb to work at
Iskeroon, where foxgloves and the rare Kerry lily grow wild and
in abundance. The nearly four-acre subtropical garden of tree ferns,
palms, hydrangeas, and arbutus she bravely planted among the husky
limestone outcroppings terminates in a private jetty, where you
can help push off David Hare as he heads out to trap lobsters in
Derrynane Bay. Hare, a television producer who takes a briskly laissez-faire
approach to running Iskeroon with his equally unbothered wife, Geraldine,
has known the property intimately for years, having spent all of
his boyhood summers at his grandfather's place up the road. Today
he turns out the scrambled eggs with smoked salmon, silky as charmeuse,
and meltingly good banana-walnut bread. The Hares' management mode,
by the way, is completely welcome. Their B&B is the opposite
of those life-sucking ones where you feel as if you're always being
spied on, and you worry that a few crumbs on the floor or mud on
the mat might get you thrown out. The Irish are exceptionally well
traveled in their own country, and everyone I talked to who knew
Iskeroon said it has the best views their land has to offer. Iskeroon
is a romantic, elemental wind-tossed place that makes it easy to
fall in love with nature, the sea, someone, yourself.
Hotel et Lodge (France) September 2006
Un lieu d’exception pour les amoureux de la nature
Vanity Fair (German edition) November 2007
GEO (Germany) May 2007
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