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Ride the cable tramway to the summit of the Great Orme, which has run since 1902 and is the last of its kind in Britain on public roads. Come down through Happy Valley, given to the town in 1887 for Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee and free to walk. On the promenade, Codman’s Punch and Judy has held the same pitch since the 1860s.

Conwy is ten minutes along the coast. Betws-y-Coed is three quarters of an hour up the valley, and Anglesey about the same the other way. The town sits at the end of its own branch line, so trains terminate here.

Llandudno has spent 150 years telling visitors that Alice in Wonderland was dreamed up on its West Shore. Alice Liddell holidayed here in the 1860s, when her father the Dean of Christ Church built a family house on that shore. A White Rabbit memorial went up nearby in 1933, unveiled by David Lloyd George. Whether Lewis Carroll ever came is unprovable.

Llandudno spreads across two shores. The busy North Shore holds the pier and the promenade; the quiet West Shore faces the sunset and the Conwy estuary. Marine Drive loops five miles round the Great Orme above them, free on foot with open sea below the whole way.

The pier is the longest in Wales, a wooden half-mile out over the sea, with kiosks and a bar at the end. Behind it Mostyn Street runs the length of the town for the shops.

For a wet afternoon, the museum on Gloddaeth Street opens Tuesday to Saturday, one five-pound ticket covering the whole year. The MOSTYN gallery is free, and Venue Cymru stays open with shows on while a nineteen-million-pound refit runs to 2028. The free Alice trail threads twelve carved figures through the streets, relaunched in 2025.