Guinness Cork Jazz Festival Room Only The Gresham Metropole Hotel. Enjoy everything the Cork Jazz Festival has to offer when you book the The Gresham Metropole Hotel. Located at the heart of the Jazz Festival you will have unlimited access to all the stages to the exclusive Festival Club here in the hotel. The Met is the spiritual home of the Jazz Festival so when you stay with us you can enjoy all the great live music until the wee small hours and the great craic of the festival.