When we decided to go to Killarney from Cork, Ireland, we had no place to stay and were traveling by bus so the hostel, on the map we had, caught our attention. We are quite grown up and had never stayed in a hostel. The Neptune Hostel, if you make reservations in advance, has private rooms with full bath, laundry service, was clean, has free internet (not a small thing in Europe), has a kitchen where you can make your own food and store it, is right in town and the staff is wonderful. My husband is on a special diet so it was helpful when we could just shop and eat our own food. The instant hot water machines were great for tea and cocoa. The location is right in town with shopping, restaurants, pubs within easy walking distance.

The first night the hostel was filled with cyclers from France so we had could not get a private bath and had to use the bathroom down the hall. It was clean, bring your own soap, but not that convenient for older adults who may want to use it during the night. When we arrived, Mike, the manager carried our luggage, without our asking, up the two flights of stairs. When we opened the door to the small room with bunk beds, he grabbed the luggage and moved it across the hall into a room he thought would be better for us. It was a nice room with good beds and good lighting. The next day we had reservations for a room with private bath. He told us to leave our packed luggage and he would move it. We went on the Ring-of-Kerry tour and he carried the luggage down the two flights of stairs into the newer buiding, up two flights there. That night we had a large family room with four beds and a large, clean bathroom with very good shower. There are no outlets, however, in the rooms where we stayed and one has to use to outlet in the hall. A small inconvenience. it isn't the Queen Mary, but it is an adventure, and is a different experience. One meets young people who are traveling around Europe and that was fun. The young people working at the hostel, Mike, Jillian, Nikky, couldn't have been nicer had they been our own grandchildren.
The tour bus for the Ring of Kerry sent a shuttle to pick us up right from the lobby. The cab to the bus/train station was 5 euros, a little higher than the kids told us it would be, makes one wonder if they have different rates for older adults. When we arrived I asked the woman at the bus station where to get a cab and she just called one for us. Do have a breakfast sandwich at the bus station, it will hold you until dinner. As we waited for our cab this man pulled up and said he was "Tony" a cabbie with a cab in repair and transported us in his private van....he may not have been a cabbie but but he was polite, helpful and charged the same as the cab driver when we left the hostel. .