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The Doyle Collection hotels

Irish hospitality gives landmark city hotels the easy familiarity of a private club.

The Doyle Collection keeps a small group of city hotels in the hands of the Irish family that built them. Its roots reach back to Pascal Vincent Doyle’s first Dublin hotel in 1964, and today its addresses in Dublin, Cork, London and Washington combine individual character with a family approach to hospitality.

7 The Doyle Collection hotels in 3 countries on the Luxury Hotels Atlas, each placed on the six LHA Tiers.

• Owned by the Doyle, Gallagher and Beatty families
• Worldwide: 7 hotels across Dublin, Cork, London and Washington, D.C. (The Bristol was sold to Leonardo Hotels in October 2026)
• On the atlas: 1 Core Luxury, 6 Accessible Luxury

History

The Doyle family’s sale of Jurys Inn allowed it to concentrate on its smaller group of city hotels. Refurbishment and a more personal approach to the houses followed. The company’s staff training carries forward P. V. Doyle’s emphasis on a warm welcome, with family ownership remaining part of the collection’s continuity.

Timeline

• 1964 — Pascal Vincent (P.V.) Doyle sells the South County Hotel to finance The Montrose Hotel in Dublin, founding what becomes the Doyle Hotel Group.
• 1969–1978 — The group expands across Dublin with the Skylon, Tara Tower, Burlington, and Berkeley Court hotels.
• 1972 — The Marylebone opens on the London village high street, 257 rooms.
• 1984 — The Westbury opens off Grafton Street in Dublin.
• 1988 — P.V. Doyle dies; his family, led in later years by his daughter Bernie Gallagher, continues to run the company.
• 1994 — The Bristol, a 1966 harbourside building, joins the Doyle hotels.
• 1997 — The family buys the 1947 Dupont Plaza in Washington. A rebirth of about $50 million reopens it in 2009.
• 2012 — The Kensington, an 1872 South Kensington house, joins the collection.
• 1999 — The Doyle hotels merge with Jurys Hotel Group to form Jurys Doyle Hotel Group, combining the upscale Doyle properties with the budget Jurys Inn chain into Ireland's largest hotel group.
• 2007 — The family sells the Jurys Inn budget chain, bought for roughly $225 million in 1999, for about $1.5 billion, an estimated €950 million profit.
• 2008 — The remaining upscale hotels rebrand as The Doyle Collection, dropping the Jurys Doyle name and refurbishing nine of eleven properties to reposition fully as a luxury group.
• 2026 — The family sells The Bristol to Leonardo Hotels UK & Ireland (Fattal Hotel Group), which renames it Leonardo Royal Hotel Bristol.

The houses to know

1. The Westbury, Dublin, Ireland — The 1984 hotel that marked the family's move into a grander Dublin house.
2. The Kensington, London, United Kingdom — An 1872 Victorian house of 150 rooms in South Kensington, with the Doyle Collection since 2012.
3. The Dupont Circle Hotel, Washington, D.C., United States — A 1947 Dupont Plaza facing the circle, reborn in 2009 after the Doyle family bought it in 1997.
4. The Bloomsbury, London, United Kingdom — One hundred and fifty-three rooms in a restored Georgian building, a four-minute walk from the British Museum, opened in 2015.
5. The Marylebone Hotel, London, United Kingdom — A 257-room house on the village high street, opened in 1972.
6. The River Lee, Cork, Ireland — One hundred and eighty-two rooms on a small island in the River Lee, in a 1963 building that became this hotel in 2006.
7. The Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland — Two hundred and fifty-eight rooms in Ballybough, open under Doyle since 2005.

Newest openings

• None of the Doyle Collection hotels selected by the Atlas has a recorded opening year of 2023 or later.

Opening next

• No forthcoming Doyle Collection openings were confirmed in the sources reviewed.

Every The Doyle Collection hotel on the atlas

Ireland

• The Westbury — Dublin · Core Luxury
• The Croke Park — Dublin · Accessible Luxury
• The River Lee — Cork · Accessible Luxury

United Kingdom

• The Bloomsbury — London · Accessible Luxury
• The Kensington — London · Accessible Luxury
• The Marylebone Hotel — London · Accessible Luxury

United States

• The Dupont Circle Hotel — Washington, D.C. · Accessible Luxury

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