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Trearddur Bay's sand is a few minutes south, and the cliff coast of Holy Island starts at the end of the streets.

Book the night before an early sailing and the morning takes care of itself — the port sits right in the town, so nobody starts the day with a drive.

Holyhead has been putting travellers up for longer than almost anywhere in Wales, because for centuries everyone bound for Ireland funnelled through it. Until 1823 the only way onto Holy Island by land was the old bridge at Four Mile Bridge — a crossing recorded there since 1530 — and every coach, cart and mail rider squeezed over it.

Then Telford’s great road arrived. The Stanley Embankment carried it straight across the Inland Sea between the two islands — started in 1822, open the year after — and at the harbour the Admiralty Arch went up in 1824 to mark the road’s end: the point where the route from London ran out and the sea began. George IV had passed through on his way to Dublin three years earlier.

Penrhos, on the way into town, is the green corner most visitors drive straight past: woods and shore walks on the old estate, open and free, with the Inland Sea on one side.

South Stack is the other direction, west past the mountain. The reserve is open all the time; the lighthouse tower is the thing to plan for, because it opens seasonally and shuts whenever the wind tops thirty miles an hour — ring before you make the trip out. It reopened for the season in mid-March 2025, and the seabird cliffs are busiest from April to July.

And the boats themselves are worth watching. Walk the front in the evening and the Dublin ferries swing out past the breakwater while the lights come on along the shore. Storm Darragh wrecked two of the port's berths in December 2024, and sailings ran short-handed until Stena reopened the harbour fully on 1 July 2025.