
Waterloo Hotel & Lodge, Betws-y-Coed
Betws-y-Coed, Snowdonia
- Sleeps 2
- Pets welcome
A 3-star hotel and lodge in Betws-y-Coed, in the heart of Snowdonia (Eryri), with an indoor swimming pool, a restaurant and bar, and dog-friendly rooms.
Betws-y-Coed sits in a wooded bowl where the Conwy, the Llugwy and the Lledr meet, with the Gwydir Forest climbing on every side. It has been the natural halt on the road through the mountains since the coaching days.
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Betws-y-Coed, Snowdonia
A 3-star hotel and lodge in Betws-y-Coed, in the heart of Snowdonia (Eryri), with an indoor swimming pool, a restaurant and bar, and dog-friendly rooms.

Betws-y-Coed, Snowdonia
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Betws-y-Coed, Snowdonia
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Betws-y-Coed, Snowdonia
A magnificent, multi-award-winning 4-star coaching inn in the heart of Betws-y-Coed — a historic gem.

Betws-y-Coed, Snowdonia
A magnificent, multi-award-winning 16th-century coaching inn in Betws-y-Coed, full of character.
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Give the day to the forest and the falls. The Gwydir Mawr mountain-bike trail is fifteen miles and eight hundred metres of climbing if that is your sort of thing; the Gwydir Bach is under six. On foot, Llyn Parc is a little over four miles from the bridge. Both are waymarked start to finish and start from free car parks in the forest.
Pont-y-Pair, the old bridge over the Llugwy, is where the coaching trade settled and where the walking still starts.
In 1874 Black’s guide to North Wales listed two hotels in Betws-y-Coed. A hundred and fifty years later both are still trading: the Royal Oak and the Waterloo. That is an unusual thing to be able to say about a village this size.
The Waterloo shares its name with the bridge below it, which is worth a look on the way past. Cast iron, put up in 1815 and 1816, it is reckoned to be about the seventh major iron bridge built anywhere in the world, with a span of more than thirty metres. The date cast into the ironwork says 1815 — the year of the battle, not the year the bridge was finished.
The Royal Oak was the artists’ favourite, and it is the reason the village became a resort at all. By the 1880s the railway was bringing hundreds of visitors through the village every summer day.
What you get here now is much what they got: dinner without going out again, somewhere to leave wet things, and a bar with other people in it. The number in the village is still small enough that summer weekends go early.
For a day out that ends somewhere warm, Conwy Falls has a café designed by Clough Williams-Ellis, who built Portmeirion. Parking is free, but the falls themselves cost £2 a head at the gate, and the café serves from nine until five through the season.
Two of the five hotels and inns listed here were named in the Victorian guidebooks of 1874, and both are still trading. Betws-y-Coed hotel accommodation means dinner and a bar without leaving the building at the end of a wet day, with rooms between £75 and £120 a night. Three of the five take dogs. Compare the village's B&Bs and guest houses and holiday cottages, browse everything in Betws-y-Coed, or widen it to hotels across Snowdonia.
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