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Most of Anglesey’s hotels were somebody’s house first. The island’s handsome buildings went up as private property — farmhouses, dower houses, and the villas that Victorian money put along the Menai Strait where the view was — and it was the twentieth century that turned them into places you can book a room in.

Château Rhianfa is the clearest case. Sir John Hay-Williams built it above the Strait between 1849 and 1851 as a present for his wife, in the manner of the Loire châteaux the couple had seen on their travels, and gave it a Welsh name: Rhianfa, the ladies’ abode. It stayed a private house for well over a century, and has only been a hotel since 2012.

The exception is Beaumaris, where in 1829 the town corporation set about building itself a hotel in order to turn the place into a resort. What made that pay was the Strait. Pleasure steamers came down from Liverpool to the pier at Beaumaris and, from 1904, to a second pier at Menai Bridge; the Liverpool and North Wales Steamship Company ran them from 1891 until it went into liquidation after the 1962 season, and its ships were broken up within months.

The Strait still holds the grandest of them, and they still face the sea. The Anglesey Arms at Menai Bridge reopened at the end of 2025 after a substantial refit.

Holyhead’s hotels do a different job: seafront rooms above Newry Beach with Holyhead Mountain behind them, filled as much by people sailing to Ireland as by holidaymakers. Round on the north coast it goes quiet — a family-run hotel at Bull Bay, a Victorian country house looking over Cemaes — while inland there are halls and old farmhouses near Amlwch, Llangefni and Llanfair PG that take guests now.

The practical argument for a hotel here is dinner. The island spreads out, and somewhere that feeds you saves a drive at the end of the day — the cooking is better than that makes it sound, and Sosban & The Old Butchers, on the High Street at Menai Bridge, held a Michelin star in the 2026 guide. It is a very small room and opens for dinner on Thursday, Friday and Saturday only, so it wants booking well ahead. Boats run out from Beaumaris pier through the summer to Puffin Island, where the grey seals lie up on the rocks and the cormorant colony holds better than a tenth of the British population.