We heard in the news today that a hotel in Kildare is looking for people to live in its rooms for just €100 per month. Are they serious?
Did we hear you right? Can you live in some hotel for just €100 per month in Ireland?
Firstly, it’s not just some hotel and secondly, yes you most certainly can. The über swank Carlton Abbey Hotel, in County Kildare, is seeking people to act as “live-in guardians” to the property.
The cost of such an abode is a measly €100 per month, which isn’t bad considering its sister hotel, the Carlton Millrace Hotel (located a short drive away from the Carlton Abbey), will see you spending €79 per person sharing, per night. So there’s a bit of a saving to be made.
So can you just stroll up to the Carlton Abbey Hotel with €100 and get in?
Not exactly. There is a little more to it than meets the eye. Sadly for the Carlton Abbey Hotel, it was forced to shut its doors on January 2 this year and since then it has been doing little to nothing. Now, the owners of the building want people to be on site 24/7 to ward off burglars and ‘amateur artists’.
It would be too expensive to pay a security man to sit on his hole all day everyday guarding one corner of the place. That’s why they’re looking for five people to apply for the positions and to actually live there on a rent agreement. Basically, the security (you) will be paying the hotel.
You mean I have to apply?
Yep. First you have to fill out a ‘Guardian Application Form’ on the Camelot website. Camelot is the company that’s sorting out the guardians for the Carlton Abbey Hotel. Click here for a look at said application.
Sweet! So if I’m accepted do I get free rein of the hotel?
Well, we can only assume so. But then again, it was previously owned by the Sisters of Mercy convent, which means it’s a fairly historic building. So they might not want you running around in your briefs with a can of Fosters in your hand.
Before it closed suddenly in January, the hotel included an on-site fitness centre, a spa, and a bar located in the original chapel. Not bad for €100 per month we think you’ll agree. But whether you get to use the facilities (for “facilities”, read “bar”), they don’t say.
There has to be some sort of catch?
You mean apart from paying a place to act as security? Well there are some ‘rules and regulations’ but nothing that would shock someone already looking to rent. The only ‘no’s’ on the list include the obvious “no parties and no pets” but there’s also the “no children” rule too, which we’re sure will cross some of you off the waiting list.
Other than that there’s not much else stopping you from signing the temporary lease agreement and moving in, apart from a strict vetting process of course. If you want to live in a four-star hotel at €100 per month for an unspecified amount of time, then click here.
[Image via Carlton Group – Flicker]
