Portrush Adelphi

About Portrush Adelphi

The Adelphi occupies a handsome Victorian building a short walk from Portrush harbour and was reopened after a full restoration by Marine and Lawn Hotels, the group behind a small collection of properties beside championship links courses. The design leans into that heritage without becoming a museum: bold colour, club-room panelling, golfing prints and heavy fabrics, with the scale kept intimate rather than corporate.

Rooms are individually finished, generally quiet given the town-centre position, and geared towards couples and pairs of golfers rather than large families. The bar and restaurant are open to non-residents and have become a fixture of Portrush evenings, with a menu built around local seafood and grilled meats and a drinks list that takes Irish whiskey seriously.

Royal Portrush Golf Club, host of The Open in 2019 and 2025, is a few minutes away, and Portstewart and Castlerock links are both within a short drive. For non-golfers the appeal is simply position: the East and West strands, the harbour restaurants and the railway station are all walkable, and Dunluce Castle, Bushmills and the Giant's Causeway are inside twenty minutes by car. Expect rates at the upper end of the coast, particularly during tournament weeks and in high summer.