The K Club Hotel & Resort
Ratings
Awards
• Forbes Travel Guide 4 Star Hotel 2019 • Best Wine Experience in Leinster 2019 – The Restaurant Association of Ireland • Best Golf Resorts in Great Britain & Ireland – 2019 GolfDigest Editor’s Choice Awards • No. 18 in CVENT’s Top 25 Europe Independent Hotels 2019 • No. 27 in Top 30 Resorts in Europe – 2019 Conde Nast Traveller Reader’s Choice Awards • No. 5 in Best Resorts in Ireland - 2019 Conde Nast Traveller Reader’s Choice Awards • IGTOA Service Excellence Award for Best Golf Course 2019 • Best Luxury Golf Resort in Ireland – The World Luxury Hotel Awards 2019
Venue Highlights
Amenities
Room features and guest services
- Concierge services
- Internet access
- Laundry service
- Luggage storage
- Room service
- View (garden)
Facilities
- Onsite catering
- Onsite gift shop
- Onsite restaurant
- Onsite security
- Rental car service
- Space (private)
- Wheelchair accessible
Business services
- AV capabilities
- Business center
- Video conference
- VIP services
Recreational activities
- Golf course on grounds
- Health club
- Indoor pool
- Spa or salon
- Tennis courts
Venue accessibility
- Bus
- Taxi
- Train
Equipment
- Dance floor
- Loading dock
- Piano
- Portable heaters
- Staging area
Getting Here
Guests & Visitors to The K Club can get here by car using the directions below. Alternatively we would be more than happy to arrange an Airport Transfer. This can be a car for smaller groups or a coach for larger groups. Car- Directions from Dublin Airport - N4/M4 route: Take the M1 from the Dublin Airport and follow the signs for the M50 to the Westlink Toll Bridge. Immediately after coming off toll bridge, exit at junction 7 and head right to N4- Galway/Sligo & The West. Continue on this road past the Lucan Spa Hotel and on to the M4 Motorway. Exit Motorway at Naas/Maynooth signpost and a junction take left for Naas. Continue for approximately 5 miles/8km – cross Clane Road and follow sign for Straffan Past Barberstown Castle and into Straffan Village – continue through village – entrance to Hotel ½ mile/800 m on right hand side.
Parking
- Complimentary parking
- Paid parking
- Valet parking
Distance from airport
24 mi. from venue
The K Club Hotel & Resort Meeting Space
Guest Rooms
Local Attractions
The Irish National Stud Company
The Curragh Race Course
Kildare Village Outlet Shopping
Russborough House in Blessington
Punchestown Racecourse
The Glendalough Valley
Castletown House
The Guinness Storehouse
More
For centuries The K Club has allured, captivated and entranced visionary men and women from all walks of life. Throughout our colourful history we have been a place where courageous folks have hatched bold plans to change the world. Just 30 minutes from Dublin city and airport – we offer an unrivalled choice of meeting and conference rooms where you and your team can be inspired to hatch your own plans. Our resort is a prime setting for top-level meetings, corporate events, teambuilding challenges, boardroom meetings and conferences. Each of our meeting and event options provides a flexible – and often reconfigurable – space for creative collaboration, high-level meetings and innovative conferencing. Our 550-acre resort, unparalleled in its scope and beauty, boasts 128 modern rooms and suites built around a remarkable architectural centrepiece, the magnificently restored Straffan House, originally established – via a trailblazing passion for the good life – by legendary Bordeaux winemaker Hugh Barton in 1832. Captivatingly moreish, varied yet fantastically focussed; dining always comes with a generous dollop of passion and creativity at The K Club. Across our seven different food and drinks spaces, guests are guaranteed superb taste and flavour sensations, thoughtful attention to detail, produce-led dishes and drinks of distinction. Across the resort, an unreasonable amount of leisure, relaxation, active and recreational opportunities await. Encompassed by two Arnold Palmer-designed championship golf courses, The K Club is highly regarded for its unrivalled golfing experience, but it’s not just world-famous fairways, our onsite golf pros are also on hand to offer lessons to both adults and children, while our K Golf World simulators utilise the most innovative and personalised golf training technologies. Set in lush countryside overlooking elegant gardens and woods, our outdoors options extend well beyond tee boxes and greens, however. Our formal gardens, for instance, feature a forest of important tree species, planted beds and beguiling sculpture, all of which can be discovered via our resort map. You can also discover oodles of the estate’s magical nooks and crannies via The K Trails, a six-kilometre network of riverside walks and cycling trails accessed on foot or via one of our complimentary bicycles. Guests can indulge their passion for angling, paddle boarding, shooting, archery and air rifle, falconry, horse-riding and tennis tuition. While youngsters seem to very much enjoy having their scientific enthusiasm ignited via The K Club’s Junior Einsteins Science Club. Meanwhile, water babies, fitness fanatics and wellness aficionados also have their own dream activities to crave. Dive into our performance swimming pool to push out some lengths or simply take a leisurely dip followed by rejuvenating relaxation in one of our hot tubs, or steam rooms. The K Health & Fitness Centre hosts a gym, juice bar, yoga studio and choice of onsite specialised personal trainers, while The K Spa offers luxurious wellness treatments in serene surroundings. Back indoors there are personalised wine cellar tours, or whiskey tastings available as well as an unparalleled choice of bars, restaurants, dapper drawing rooms and magnificent interiors in which to spend one’s time exceedingly well. Meanwhile, our location: a relative hop, skip and a jump (half an hour by car) from Dublin Airport means that The K Club is as accessible as it is guaranteed to leave you craving more. Welcome to a unique resort where we are always warmly on-hand, ready to encourage you in your pursuit of glamorous escapade or luxuriant relaxation, a place where it’s always Time to Play.
Seasonality
Facility Restrictions
Pets not allowed Non-Smoking
Additional Information
The K Club has been influenced by a long line of visionaries and mavericks – people unafraid to look at things differently. We’ve been trailblazers right from the start. The resort, then known as Straffan Estate, was purchased by Hugh Barton in 1831. Barton had built up an immense fortune via the vineyards he had inherited and expanded from his Irish grandfather, Thomas Barton, in Bordeaux. The dynamic younger Barton’s Bordeaux ambitions were temporarily put on hold, however, when he was forced out of France as an intrus étranger (foreign intruder) during the infamous Reign of Terror period of the French Revolution. Returning to Ireland the entrepreneur invested his remaining fortune into developing the estate, creating a homeplace that would eventually become a much-loved refuge for the dashing exile with a taste for the finer things in life. The extravagant original house built by Barton, now the east wing of the hotel, with its distinctive mansard roof, is said to have been based on a chateau at Louveciennes, located just outside Paris. The estate stayed in the Barton family for multiple generations until it was eventually sold by the last Barton heir, Derick, to dapper motorcycle manufacturer and veteran car enthusiast, John Ellis, whom, at one time, kept Ireland’s largest privately-owned collection of classic and vintage cars and motorcycles on the estate. Straffan then came under the stewardship of the suave, Dublin-born Kevin McClory, a gallant adventurer who had made his fortune as a film producer in London of the 1950s and 1960s. The bon vivant’s most famous and lucrative production, was Thunderball, the fourth, and arguably the most successful film, of Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Subsequent owners included Iranian Air Force founder, Nader Jahanbani (1977), and property magnate Alan Ferguson (1981). In 1988, the estate blazed a trail once again when it was purchased by the Jefferson Smurfit Group, controlled by Sir Michael Smurfit who renamed the resort The Kildare Hotel & Golf Club, better known today as The K Club. This chapter also facilitated the development of the estate’s two Arnold Palmer-designed golf courses; one of which became home to the 2006 Ryder Cup. The K Club’s current owner is gregarious entrepreneur Michael Fetherston, whose passion to continue and enhance the estate’s trailblazing reputation is fuelling the next chapter of this unique destination.