Royal Marine Hotel to Close
This Story: October 11, 2004
For a few years now there have been persistent rumours that the Royal Marine Hotel in Dun Laoghaire is to close down. The RMH was the home of Octocon for many years, and more recently the regular venue for the regularly held Dublin Toy & Train Fair. I grew up around Dun Laoghaire, too, and went to a number of things in the RMH. Discos in the seventies, god help us, were amongst the earliest events I went to, but I spent a lot of good times there, between one thing and another. So, out of curiosity, and bearing in mind that I knew that they weren’t taking any bookings beyond the summer of 2004, I decided to write to them to ask what the story was. Michelle Costelloe replied to my query thusly:
I wish to advise you that the Gresham Royal Marine Hotel will be closing on the 31st October 2004. The Hotel has been sold for the last three years and the new owners are taking it over in October. They are going to do a lot of work upgrading the Hotel and it will be closed for approx 1 – 2 years. It will still remain a Hotel.
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