Seiont Manor

We’ve been back a whole week from holiday but haven’t had much time for posting, so catching up  

In North Wales we stayed at Seoint Manor Hotel, and I wrote a bit about it here. 

It’s a fair trek from East London, so  we travelled part way on the Friday night, stopping at some random motel near Northampton, giving us a fresh start for the rest of the journey on the Saturday morning.

We took the A5 (Telford, Shrewsbury, Corwen) route in. I’d been to Snowdonia before, when I was very young, but don’t remember much, so was very and newly impressed when entering the park. The mountain roads from Betws-y-coed to Llanberis were especially pleasing.

So, the hotel. It’s set in its own farmland and a bit isolated. Click the image above for pics. We were ‘upgraded’ from the fancy room we booked to one with a four-poster bed. Whilst this might sound nice, it’s not really. Four-posters are much smaller than a normal King Size bed, but the room itself was nice. The hotel also had a nice, if small, pool. And a sauna. Certainly a very relaxing place.

The access road to the hotel has lots of speed bumps, and the car park a perfect place for an assortment of birds to dump their breakfast on your car.

As mentioned previously, there is nowhere to walk to of an evening (pub, restaurant) so you either have to drive and avoid drinking or take out a new mortgage and buy food/drink at the hotel.

Would I stay there again? Probably not. Having been all over the region now, I think I’d prefer one of the many mountainside or lakeside inns.