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More About Hotels and Inns on the North Wales Coast

Give a morning to the Great Orme above Llandudno, and an afternoon to the walls at Conwy. Then a day inland to the Vale of Clwyd, where the castles at Rhuddlan and Denbigh see far fewer visitors than the seafront. If it rains there is the Welsh Mountain Zoo above Colwyn Bay and the waterpark at Rhyl.

The A55 and the railway both follow the shore from Chester to Bangor. Nowhere on this coast is awkward to reach, and getting from one town to the next takes minutes. Behind it all the ground rises quickly into Eryri, about half an hour from most of the seafront.

Take Gloddaeth Crescent in Llandudno, built up around 1865 as a row of boarding houses. The Imperial Hotel was created in 1872 by amalgamating several of them, and the Tyndale nearby is three former boarding houses knocked into one. The Chatsworth was once Lockyear’s Hotel, joined to four smaller hotels and houses beside it.

So a substantial Victorian hotel here is very often four or five ordinary houses wearing a single name. That is why the corridors do odd things, and the room sizes vary so much from floor to floor.

The other route in was the country house. Nant Hall at Prestatyn was somebody’s home until it was sold in 1879, and it has been a hotel ever since. In Llandudno the grand seafront ones are listed buildings, the Grand, St George’s and the Imperial among them.

What that leaves is a coast where the hotels are part of the architecture, not dropped onto it. The grandest stand right on the promenade at Llandudno, a short walk from the pier and the tram up the Great Orme.

Today they put dinner, a bar and a lounge under one roof, which suits a wet evening or a late arrival. Conwy’s walls and Bodnant Garden are twenty minutes west, the beaches at Rhyl and Prestatyn twenty east, and Eryri (Snowdonia) rises half an hour behind.

Getting around is easier, too. Since the May 2026 timetable the shore railway has run roughly hourly from Bangor to Chester, so a hotel here no longer has to mean a car.