Llandudno: Guide, Hotels, Map & Photos
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GBP 50 - 150 Kinmel Hotel
 This superb family-run hotel offers excellent value for money and has a prime position in Llandudno overlooking the sea, with views of Snowdonia from … MoreGBP 45 - 69 Shelbourne Hotel
 Seafront family owned hotel, with spectacular panoramic views of the surrounding bay, only 20 metres from the beach. Ideal location to visit the surro… MoreGBP 20 - 100 Jenivore Hotel (Non-Smoking) - B&B
 Now under new management, this charming non-smoking hotel has a great location, just a few minutes’ walk from the town centre, Llandudno's North Sho… MoreGBP 28 - 84 The Grand Ash
 The Grand Ash Hotel is perfectly situated at just a 15 minute level stroll to the promenade, pier and town centre. You can look forward to a warm welc… MoreGBP 38 - 94 Ambassador Hotel
 This traditional, family run, independent hotel offers uniquely styled accommodation in picturesque Llandudno.
Found on the north coast, this is the … MoreGBP 65 - 105 Kensington Hotel
 This family-run seafront hotel, graded as 3-star by the Welsh Tourist Board, offers high standards of service and a very warm welcome.
Situated on th… MoreGBP 50 - 130 The Grand Hotel
 The Grand Hotel is in a Premier position overlooking the town's attractive bay and well kept promenade. A value for money hotel offering fantastic ent… MoreGBP 25 - 60 Elsinore Hotel
 The Elsinore Hotel overlooks lovely Llandudno beach, with the Great Orme on the left and the Little Orme on the right. The Elsinore Hotel is the ideal… MoreGBP 60 - 60 Penn-Sarne Holiday Flats
 Conveniently situated in a peaceful residential area in Llandudno, just a few minutes from the main shopping centre and seafront, these holiday flats … MoreGBP 60 - 84 Trevone Hotel
 Looking out over the bay from one of the finest locations on Llandudno's famous Victorian promenade, the hotel’s grand historic exterior conceals co… MoreGBP 50 - 110 Promenad
 Located on the sea front in Llandudno North Wales, this family-run guest house is set within an elegant 5-storey Victorian building which boasts wonde… MoreGBP 35 - 88 The Royal Hotel
 Set in its own secluded gardens, just minutes’ walk away from the beach and Llandudno town centre, this elegant, family-run hotel provides modern an… More | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Llandudno: Guide
Llandudno is a Victorian seaside resort and town in North Wales. It lies on the coast between Bangor_(Wales)|Bangor and Colwyn Bay, and has a population of about 20,000. Llandudno is just off the main rail line between Chester and Holyhead, the latter being the main ferry port for travel to Republic_of_Ireland|Ireland. Llandudno is served by a branch line from Llandudno Junction.
Understand
Llandudno has the distinction of being the largest seaside resort in North Wales. The resort lies between two notable carboniferous headlands, the Great Orme and the Little Orme with the Irish Sea on one side and the estuary of the River Conwy on the other. It is these headlands and the two waterfronts, the North Shore and the West Shore, that give Llandudno its special appeal.
Although settlements have existed on the Great Orme since the Stone Age and an Iron Age hill fort survives at Pen-y-Dinas, Llandudno was developed as a seaside resort in the Victorian era. As such, it has Victorian charm - large Victorian houses, fine hotels lining the bay, a pier, boat trips round the headland, Punch and Judy on the wide promenade, an excellent lifeboat service, and a fine theatre with ballet, opera, orchestral concerts, ice shows and pantomime in season.
Get in
By train
Through Train from London#By_train|London Euston, Mondays to Fridays 11am (3½ hours).
Through Trains from Manchester, every hour on weekdays (2½ hours).
Trains from Crewe, every hour on weekdays, change at Chester and/or Llandudno Junction.
Trains from Cardiff, every two hours on weekdays, change at Llandudno Junction.
Trains from Holyhead, every hour on weekdays, change at Llandudno Junction.
By car
From England: From the M6, take the M56 in the direction of Chester, North Wales. Take the M53 in the direction of A55, North Wales at the end of the M56. This becomes the A55, stay on this for 30 miles or so until you see signs for the A470 turn off. From here follow signs for Llandudno.
By plane
Nearest airports are Liverpool and Manchester but only Manchester is linked by train (from airport by train to Manchester Piccadily, then change train). By hire car, little to chose between the two - use the above directions.
By bus
Local buses operate from Rhyl (every ten minutes), Bangor_(Wales)|Bangor (six per hour), Caernarfon, Llanberis and Llangollen but there are no daily long distance coach services to Llandudno. National Express have a daily service from London calling at Llandudno Junction (three miles away).
Get around
Take the scenic Conwy Valley Train from Llandudno to Blaenau Ffestiniog.
Gwynedd Red Rover Tickets cost £5 for unlimited day travel on the Conwy Valley train, on all buses in Snowdonia and on all buses in the Conwy Valley and throughout western Conwy, Gwynedd and Anglesey.
See
Ride the traditional tram (built in 1902) to the summit of the Great Orme, enjoy the visitor centre and visit Randolf Turpin's Bar in the Summit Complex.
Then take a taxi (but be warned, competition is fierce!) to Broadway Boulevard, a nightclub set in a huge ex-theatre for a night of cheesy music and good times.
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Bronze Age Copper Mines, ph: (0)1492 870 447 - Recently discovered bronze age mines on the upper slopes of the Great Orme. Tours start off with a brief talk on the mine and seeing tools found in excavations, before heading down into the mines! Great fun and well worth a visit, although the tours aren't very long.
Fossils in the exposed limestone faces of Bishop's Quarry near the summit.
The Victorian Pier, the finest in Wales, second longest in Britain and one of a dwindling number of recreational piers in the country.Do
Go for walks over the Great Orme, perhaps visiting Saint Tudno's church.
Walk, cycle, drive or ride a coach around the Marine Drive. There is a toll of £2.50 for cars but that includes free parking at the summit car park, which is reached by a side road via Saint Tudno's Church.
Take the cable car from the Happy Valley to the summit of the Great Orme.
Walk in the Happy Valley and the Haulfre Gardens and enjoy the magnificent views.
Visit the Happy Valley artificial ski slope ot take the toboggan run from the top...
Ride a donkey or just enjoy the sun on either of Llandudno's two beaches, North Beach and West ShoreBuy
Eat
Drink
Visit one of the bars in the "top of town" (Upper Mostyn Street). These are
Fountain's
The Lounge
The Fat Cat Cafe
Club 147's (membership required)
The Palladium (a J.D. Wetherspoons pub) Sleep
Get out
Conwy - fantastic castle and walled town, just 5 miles away from Llandudno.
Chester - Roman walled city, 30 miles away.