Hotel review: Great value and two golf courses at five-star NI getaway

Lough Erne has been retuning its offering in sympathy with its surroundings, adding a new subtlety to the five-star getaway The turreted exterior of Lough Erne Resort in Co Fermanagh “It’s like the forgotten county,” says Gareth Byrne, Lough Erne Resort’s manager. “But that adds to the charm. Everyone welcomes you to Fermanagh.

.. and Fermanagh time.



” Donegal may contest the description, but having just driven through the lakelands, past bending reeds and storm-tossed trees on roads that nip and tuck along squiggly shorelines, it’s hard to disagree. And here, at the heart of it, is a hotel and golf resort that seems finally to be leaning fully into its private, 600-acre peninsula..