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Rooms From: £ 35
Llanberis, Llanberis, LL55 4TY
`The Hotel at the foot of Snowdonia` In every sense the Royal Victoria Hotel is unique. Situated on the edge of the Snowdonia National Park within 30 acres of woodland, the views are breathtaking.
The hotel offers the perfect base from which to explore the region and welcomes you with warmth and friendliness to make your stay as pleasurable as possible.
All rooms are en suite with tea and coffee making facilities, including television with satellite, radio and all rooms have direct dial telephones.
Choose from the Padarn Restaurant with a variety of delicious menus or take a light refreshment in our large, light and airy conservatory with views over Snowdonia.
Popular with walkers wanting to use the hotel as a base to explore Snowdonia, ride the train to Snowdon, try your hand at rock climbing, abseiling or canoeing or simply walking or pony trekking, we can help you to organise your stay with us.
The dining room invites you to choose from a variety of delicious menus and in the light and airy conservatory you can dine whilst contemplating the magnificent panorama spread before you.
Restaurant Menus Wedding & Function Menus available.
Local Attractions
Welsh Slate Museum (1 km) - The museum holds one of the largest water wheels ever built. The De Winton company built the 15.4 metre wheel in 1870. Water to power the wheel was piped down from Snowdon driving the machinery to produce slates for roof all over Britain.
Snowdon mountain railway (1 km) - This is Britains only rack railway and from the station in Llanberis you can travel to the top of Snowdonia. It may not be fast, but it great fun and exhilarating - and a lot easier than walking!
Electric Mountain (1 km) - This massive hydroelectric power station is built inside Snowdon. The main turbine chamber is said to be the largest underground chamber ever excavated. Take a bus tour from the 'Dragon in the Mountain' exhibition near the hotel.
Snowdonia National Park (1 km) - Walk along the many routes to the summit of the highest mountain in England and Wales, over three thousand feet high.
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Mention LLANBERIS to any mountain enthusiast and they will think of Snowdon . The two seem inseparable, and it's not just the five-mile-long umbilical of the Snowdon Mountain Railway , Britain's only rack-and-pinion railway, which bonds the town, located ten miles west of Capel Curig, to the summit, nor the popular path running parallel to it. This is the nearest you'll get to an alpine climbing village in Wales, its single main street thronged with weatherbeaten walkers and climbers decked out in fleeces, high fashion for what is otherwise a dowdy town. At the same time, Llanberis is very much a Welsh rural community, albeit a depleted one now that slate is no longer being torn from the flanks of Elidir Fawr, the mountain across the town's twin lakes. The quarries, which for the best part of two centuries employed up to three thousand men, closed in 1969, making way for the construction of the Dinorwig Pumped Storage Power Station.
Three of the routes up Snowdon start five miles east of Llanberis at the top of the Llanberis Pass, one of the deepest, narrowest and craggiest in Snowdonia. At the summit, a hostel, café and car park comprise the settlement of PEN-Y-PASS . Frequent, year-round Sherpa buses travel up daily to Pen-y-Pass, and from mid-July to August there is also the #96 Pen-y-Pass shuttle from Llanberis, the recommended approach even if you have a car, since the Pen-y-Pass car park is expensive and almost always full. Use the "Park and Ride"car park at the bottom of the pass, near the Vaynol Arms .
Scattered remains are all that is left of thirteenth-century Dolbadarn Castle (free access; CADW), on the road to Parc Padarn , where lakeside oak woods are gradually recolonizing the discarded workings of the defunct Dinorwig Slate Quarries. Here, the Welsh Slate Museum (Easter-Oct daily 10am-5pm, Nov-Easter Sun-Fri 10am-4pm; free) occupies the former maintenance workshops of what was once one of the largest slate quarries in the world. The line shafts and flapping belts driven by a fifty-foot-diameter waterwheel provide a backdrop to workbenches where former quarry workers demonstrate their skills at turning an inch-thick slab of slate into six, or even eight, perfectly smooth slivers. The craftsmen here operate an ageing foundry, producing pieces for the scattered branches of the National Museum of Wales, as well as repairing the rolling stock belonging to the nearby Llanberis Lake Railway (July & Aug daily 4-10pm; March-June & Sept to early Oct Mon-Fri & Sun 3-6pm), which formerly transported slate and workers between the Dinorwig quarries and Port Dinorwig on the Menai Strait. It's a tame forty-minute round trip with little to do at the end except come back and explore the old slate workings.
In 1974, five years after the quarry closed, work began on hollowing out the vast underground chambers of the Dinorwig Pumped Storage Hydro Station , designed to provide power on demand. If you can bear the thinly disguised electricity industry advertisement which comes before it, you can take an hour-long minibus tour around the enormous pipework in the depths. For this, you need to call at Electric Mountain (Easter-Sept daily 9.30am-5.30pm; Oct-Dec daily 10.30am-4.30pm; mid-Jan to Easter Thurs-Sun 10.30am-4.30pm), by the lake beside the A4086, the town-centre bypass. The museum complex has some tolerably interesting displays on local glaciation, flora and fauna, and an exhibition about mammoths.
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