Samsú started with burnout. Founder Rosanna quit her job and built a single cabin on the edge of a Westmeath forest, with one idea: it should feel less like a hotel and more like a warm hug. It worked. There are now three cabins, a cookbook and a steady waitlist, but the premise hasn’t changed — a few slow days in nature, close enough to reach after work, far enough that nobody can reach you.
Each cabin sleeps two and sits alone on private, secluded land. Cucu and Saoirse are in Westmeath; Tigin sits in the corner of a meadow on a 70-acre working farm in Wicklow. Expect a wood stove, a proper bed, big round windows onto the trees and (depending on the cabin) a sauna and an outdoor bath
Days here fill up with slow, analogue things: hand-grinding your coffee, playing cassettes by the stove, a copper bath under fairy lights, s’mores over the fire. The design has caught the eye of BBC Travel, Dezeen and Dwell, and guests come back talking about sleeping properly, hearing the birds and losing track of what day it is.
Samsú also curates a wider collection of considered Irish stays if you want somewhere beyond their own.
Price: €200-250 a night
