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Hotels in Snowdonia — your questions answered

How much do hotels in Snowdonia cost?

Rooms start at £52 a night across the 28 listed, with £100 about the middle. Sixteen are under £100 and only two are over £150. Expect the mountain places to tighten up over bank holidays and through the summer. Every listing shows what a room costs.

Which is the best base?

Depends what you came for. The old places in the passes put you at the foot of the walking. Caernarfon and the Conwy valley suit anyone wanting castles and a town in the evening. Bala is the one for the lake, and Barmouth, Harlech and Aberdyfi are for a week that is as much beach as mountain.

Do they look after walkers?

Twenty of the twenty-eight include breakfast in the rate, which is the part that counts when you want an early start. Drying space, an early breakfast and a packed lunch vary from one to the next, so ask when you book. Nine are marked as family friendly and eleven take dogs.

Can we get dinner without going out?

The listing tells you whether food is served, and it is the first thing to check on this page. In high season, sort dinner out at the same time as the room. At road junctions like Capel Curig and Nant Gwynant the nearest alternative is over a pass, which is a long way to go on a wet evening.

Which of these are inside the National Park?

Not all of them. Caernarfon and Barmouth sit just outside the boundary, and Conwy is well outside it. Betws-y-Coed and Capel Curig are inside, along with Beddgelert, Bala, Harlech and Aberdyfi. The line is a planning boundary rather than a fence, and the walking is the same on either side of it.

What is the difference between the old inns and the town hotels?

The inns began as farmhouses at the heads of the passes. They are small and plain, and they put you where the paths start. The town hotels give you shops, a choice of places to eat and an easier drive home. Five of these are at Bala and five at Betws-y-Coed, with three each at Caernarfon and Aberdyfi.

There are 28 hotels and inns listed across Snowdonia — Caernarfon and Bala, Betws-y-Coed, Harlech and Aberdyfi are where most of the walking starts. Snowdonia hotel accommodation ranges from an old coaching stop at the head of a pass to a country house in its own grounds, and 25 of the 28 have parking on site. Fifteen of them let you deal with the owner yourself, and the rest go through the listing.