Butler Arms Hotel

About Butler Arms Hotel

This charming hotel, on the scenic Ring of Kerry, has been run by 4 generations of the Huggard family. Tastefully furnished bedrooms, many with magnificent sea views, cosy lounges, award-winning restaurant specializing in local seafood and the Fishermens Bar with its cosmopolitan ambience. Only 1 mile from Waterville's Championship Golf Links. Renowned salmon and seatrout fishing, sandy beaches, horse riding, hill walking.

Rooms

Our rooms, which include 12 recently?built luxury suites, are impeccably furnished to be your comfortable home from home, and the stunning views from your window will provide an ever?changing vista of ocean, land and sky bathed in subtly?shifting light.

Location

The Butler Arms is located in Waterville, on the Ring of Kerry, County Kerry. It is 70km from Killarney and 90 km from Kerry airport.

Other

Fisherman's Restaurant: The restaurant, awarded 2 red Rosettes by the AA for excellent cuisine, offers a varied menu, specialising in a variety of fresh seafood complemented by an excellent wine list. All of the seafood on our menu is caught daily by local fishermen in the bountiful waters of the upolluted south–west coast.

The Charlie Chaplin Lounge: Relax over a cup of tea in the sunny Charlie Chaplin Lounge, where the photos on the walls recall the many happy visits of the Chaplin family.

Local Attractions: Waterville is renowned for its game angling and it's 18 hole championship golf links but it also a paradise for the hill walker, cyclist, pony trekker, ornithologist, archaeologist, sea and shore angler, water sport enthusiast and indeed for the general holidaymaker. For ramblers and photographers the area is a paradise while the more energetic can indulge in cycling, horseriding, and sea sports. Waterville's Lough Currane is renowned worldwide for the quality of its Salmon and Seatrout fishing. Experienced ghillies with boat and tackle can be arranged. Deep sea angling also available.

The Ring of Kerry, famous throughout the world for its rugged mountains and coastline, placid lakes and many archaeological remains, including Staigue Fort and the monastic settlement on Skellig Michael, just a few miles off the coast. For bird watchers, Little Skellig is renowned as an important breeding site for many threatened species of sea birds, while botanists can marvel at the abundant local flora, much of which is to be found nowhere else in Ireland. The south west coast of Ireland is a mecca for golfers worldwide, with such famous courses as Ballybunion, Tralee, Old Head, Kinsale and Killarney within reach. Waterville's own Championship Links, just 1 mile from the hotel and regarded by many as the jewel in the crown, has recently hosted many of the world's top ranking golfers.