Travel review: This Portrush hotel is a symbol of the town and wider north coast's remarkable renaissance
Portrush once again welcomes The Open this week, and business is booming, nowhere more so than at hotels like the recently opened Elephant Rock.
The newcomer sits among a cluster of townhouses which look out onto the Atlantic at the eastern edge of the peninsula.
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