YHA, Portmeirion hotels

"If you’re looking for a historic experience while visiting the castle, you can’t get better than this Inn. It’s obviously been modernized, but eating downstairs has such a tavern feel to it. The portions are huge and the food is delicious especially the welsh pie and soups. Within the castle walls, you’ll have an array of local shops and pubs to frequent after touring the castle. Enjoy a walk along the water. As others have mentioned, there are stairs and it can be a bit of a maze to get to your room. I was worried but this actually did not bother me. As long as you can lift your suitcase up stairs, you’ll be fine. "

"Such a wonderful stay - we only stayed one night and hadn’t overly researched where we were staying but were so pleasantly surprised. Beautiful, comfortable stay and restaurant was great too. The guy who was on reception 26th June about 3/4pm (maybe from Birmingham) who checked us in could not have been more helpful, so friendly and welcoming he really set the tone for our trip. Great customer service x"

"This was my second visit to The Lion. The hotel offers excellent service at a very reasonable rate. The staff are friendly and the food on offer is very good and at a very competitive price. I would highly recommend this hotel."

"Great short stay to access Snowdon. The accomodation was exceptionally clean and very smart. A little bit of work to do in the bedroom to tidy up the damaged walls and skirting board but otherwise faultless and I am being very picky. Great proactive contact and helpful staff with warm welcome. Excellent adoption of technology to make stay more convenient including self serve tuck shop for an early morning. Would definitely stay again and recommend to others!"

"Friendly staff, good pub food, comfy bed, spacious room. Ideal as a base because of the location and free parking."

"We were greeted in a very informal and friendly manner and shown to our room. The room was a lovely room with sea views. It was very very clean and plenty of space including king size bed. Would recommend anytime"

"Dining lounge area , lovely restoration "

"Perfectly placed for a hike up Snowdon. Friendly staff. "

"Everything great apart from room temperature lack of ventilation.windows did not open enough. Were given a small table fan which didn't help much. So had two uncomfortable nights. No aircon but ceiling fan would have been a help."