Burlington Hotel (Dublin)

Clayton Hotel Burlington Road
The Burlington Hotel, pictured in 2008.
Location within Central Dublin
Former names	Burlington Hotel, DoubleTree by Hilton Dublin – Burlington Road
Hotel chain	Clayton Hotels
General information
Classification	[1]
Address	Burlington Road Upper Leeson Street Dublin 2
Coordinates	53°19′50″N 6°14′55″W / 53.3305869°N 6.2486434°W / 53.3305869; -6.2486434
Current tenants	Dalata Hotel Group[1]
Opening	1972
Renovated	2014
Owner	DekaBank[2]
Other information
Number of rooms	502[1]
Number of suites	2[1]
Number of restaurants	1[1]
Website
doubletree.hilton.com/Dublin

The Burlington Hotel, currently operated as Clayton Hotel Burlington Road, is a hotel in Dublin, Ireland. Opened in 1972 and nicknamed "the Burlo" by Dubliners,^[3] it is the largest hotel in central Dublin,^[4] and the second largest in County Dublin after the CityWest Hotel.

The hotel was purchased by property developer Bernard McNamara in 2007 for €288 million.^[5] Following the post-2008 Irish economic downturn, Bank of Scotland (Ireland) took possession of the hotel from McNamara.^[3] It was sold in 2012 to The Blackstone Group for €67 million, in what was Ireland's biggest property transaction since the start of the downturn.^[3] It was redeveloped by Blackstone in 2013 as DoubleTree by Hilton Dublin – Burlington Road, as part of the DoubleTree chain.^[4] In 2016 Blackstone sold the hotel to the German investment bank DekaBank in 2016, and a 25 year lease to operate the hotel was granted to the Dalata Hotel Group, which rebranded it as part of the Clayton Hotels chain in November 2016.^[1][2]

The hotel's former nightclub, Club Anabel, gained notoriety in 2000 when the death of Brian Murphy took place during a fight outside the premises.

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