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Benllech is built around one long sandy beach that faces north-east across the bay. The sand runs wide at low tide, and it has long been a favourite with families. In 2025 the sea here was rated Good for bathing water quality.

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The Gazelle with Sea Views

★★★3-Star

Menai Bridge, Anglesey

  • 7 bedrooms
Sea viewsNear a beachBreakfast

A classic seaside inn on the banks of the Menai Strait near Menai Bridge, with some of the best views in North Wales.

★ 9.7/ 10 · Booking.com
From£80 per night
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Orient B&B Near Beach

★★★★4-Star

Holyhead, Anglesey

    Near a beachBreakfastFamily friendly

    A 4-star, family-run guest house in the heart of Holyhead — handy for the ferry, South Stack and the beaches.

    ★ 4.7/ 5 · Google
    From£191 per night
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    More About B&Bs in Benllech

    The Anglesey Coastal Path runs right along the front. Walk north and it climbs to the cove at Traeth Bychan, then on around the headland to Moelfre and its lifeboat station.

    Benllech grew as a seaside resort in Victorian times, and the older houses on the hill behind the sand date from then, when the first visitors came for the beach.

    The guest-house trade on this bit of coast is older than the beach holidays. For most of the 1800s Benllech itself was, by one local account, a poor straggling village with a few cottages down by the shore. Round the corner at Red Wharf Bay, though, there was already a hotel taking paying visitors.

    It was run by a woman called Margaret Roberts, and she is worth knowing about. She was born at the Min-y-don, one of twenty-one children, and went into domestic service before coming back to take the place on. She built it up through the Victorian years until it had fifteen bedrooms, a bar, stables and a croquet lawn; when the freehold went to auction in 1881 it was described as being frequented by visitors from England, Ireland and the Continent of Europe.

    She was still known as the Queen of Red Wharf when she died in 1905, at ninety-three. Before the chapel at Saron was built in the 1830s, the Calvinistic Methodists — Mrs Roberts among them — used to meet in an outbuilding a little along the shore that the old maps still label Hen Gapel, the old chapel.

    What she was running then is not far off what a B&B does now: a few rooms, a proper breakfast, and somebody behind it who knows the coast. The difference is the scale: fifteen bedrooms then, three or four now.

    The village has enough to it that the car can stay where it is for most of the week — shops, a couple of pubs, cafés along the front and a beach at the end of the road. For a family that is most of the argument for staying here rather than somewhere prettier and further out. Down at Red Wharf Bay, the Ship Inn came under new owners in 2025, and the Boathouse has cooked on the sand there for over fifty years.

    B&Bs in Benllech — your questions answered

    Are the B&Bs close to the beach?
    Yes — Benllech is a small village, so the beach and the shops are both within a walk. That is most of the reason people stay here rather than further out.
    How many B&Bs are there in Benllech?
    Very few, which is worth knowing in July and August. If they are booked there are self-catering cottages in the village, and more guest houses along this coast at Moelfre, Amlwch and Beaumaris.
    Is it a good base for a family?
    It suits families well. The beach is the main event, and the coast path goes right through the middle of Benllech. There are no RNLI lifeguards on any Anglesey beach, so keep children in sight in the sea.
    Can we bring the dog?
    Usually — check the listing before you book. One thing to know for the summer: a marked stretch of the main beach is closed to dogs from May to September, with leads required on the promenade.
    Is breakfast included?
    At most of them, and the listing tells you which. Ask what time it is served when you book, because a small place cooks to a set hour rather than whenever you come down. Say if you want an early start.
    What is there to do on a wet day?
    Oriel Môn at Llangefni costs nothing to walk into and is shut on Mondays. Beaumaris has the castle, the old gaol and the courthouse, all partly under cover. Plas Newydd, the National Trust house on the Strait, is another indoor afternoon.

    B&Bs go early here, so if the dates matter it is worth booking soon. Benllech beach is a short walk down from the main road, and Beaumaris, Amlwch and the Menai bridges are all about twenty minutes away by car. The village's self-catering cottages are the other option, or see everything we have in Benllech.

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