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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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Book OnlineGwydyr Hotel
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Gwydyr Hotel

★★★★4-Star

Betws-y-Coed, Snowdonia

  • Sleeps 15+
  • 20 bedrooms
  • 20 bathrooms
  • Pets welcome
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A welcoming, dog-friendly 4-star hotel in the heart of Betws-y-Coed — a superb base for Snowdonia.

★ 8.5/ 10 · Booking.com
From£120 per night
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Royal Oak National Park Hotel

★★★★4-Star

Betws-y-Coed, Snowdonia

  • Sleeps 15+
  • 6 bedrooms
  • 6 bathrooms
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A magnificent, multi-award-winning 4-star coaching inn in the heart of Betws-y-Coed — a historic gem.

★ 4.4/ 5 · Google
From£99 per night
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Ty Gwyn Historic Hotel

★★★★4-Star

Betws-y-Coed, Snowdonia

  • Sleeps 15+
  • 12 bedrooms
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A magnificent, multi-award-winning 16th-century coaching inn in Betws-y-Coed, full of character.

★ 8.8/ 10 · Booking.com
From£86 per night
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Castle Cottage

Harlech, Snowdonia

  • Sleeps 14
  • 7 bedrooms
  • 7 bathrooms
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A historic restaurant with rooms beneath Harlech Castle, with stylish en-suite bedrooms, free parking and an acclaimed restaurant.

★ 9.7/ 10 · Booking.com
From£130 per night
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Plas Dinas Country House

★★★★★5-Star

Caernarfon, Snowdonia

  • Sleeps 22
  • 11 bedrooms
  • 11 bathrooms
  • Pets welcome
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A five-star country house hotel near Caernarfon, once home to Lord Snowdon, set in 15 acres with eleven rooms and a Michelin-Guide restaurant.

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From£150 per night
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Black Boy Inn

Caernarfon, Snowdonia

  • Sleeps 60
  • 30 bedrooms
  • 30 bathrooms
  • Pets welcome
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One of the oldest inns in Wales, built in 1522, within Caernarfon's town walls — characterful en-suite rooms, a bar and restaurant, dog-friendly.

★ 4.6/ 5 · Google
From£99 per night
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Trefeddian Seaside Hotel

★★★★4-Star

Aberdyfi, Snowdonia

  • Sleeps 15+
  • 20 bedrooms
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An award-winning seafront hotel with an indoor pool above the golf links in Aberdovey, overlooking Cardigan Bay.

★ 8.8/ 10 · Booking.com
From£115 per night
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George III Estuary View Hotel

★★★★4-Star

Penmaenpool, Snowdonia

  • Sleeps 15+
  • 10 bedrooms
  • Pets welcome
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A famous historic hotel on the banks of the Mawddach Estuary at Penmaenpool near Dolgellau. Dog-friendly.

★ 4.5/ 5 · Google
From£143 per night
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More About Hotels in Betws-y-Coed

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.

Hotels in Betws-y-Coed — your questions answered

How much do hotels in Betws-y-Coed cost?
The five here start at £75 a night, with £85 about the middle, and four of the five are under £100. There are not many of them, so summer weekends and half term go a long way in advance. Two owners take a booking direct, which is the quickest way to ask about a late arrival.
Can we eat in?
It is the main reason to pick a room here, because you are not driving out again after a wet day on the hill. The listing says what each one serves. Between June and September, book the table when you book the room. There is no bank and no butcher in the village.
Is there parking at the hotel?
Four of the five have their own, which is worth having in a village where the public car parks belong to two different authorities. The National Park one takes card or contactless, never cash. Check the listing before you set off if you are arriving on a summer Saturday, and whatever you read elsewhere, the station car park is not free.
Are they open through the winter?
Check each listing rather than assuming. The National Park notes that some businesses in Eryri close through February, and the village is quietest between November and March. That is the easiest time to get a room at short notice, and the falls run hardest after rain. Ring ahead rather than turning up on spec in midwinter.
What is there to see within a couple of miles?
Swallow Falls is two miles west, open all year and round the clock. It costs £2 at an unmanned turnstile that takes coins or contactless, and the village community council runs it. Lord Ancaster gave it to them in 1913, and the charge paid for the village electricity. The Sherpa S1 bus stops there.
How busy does it get?
Very, in summer. The National Park says visitor numbers can double between spring and summer, and it names this village among the places that feel it. Autumn is much quieter and winter quieter still, though many campsites shut once the season ends. The Eryri Walk Fest is based here on the 3rd and 4th of October 2026.

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.