Betws-y-Coed (North Wales)

I live just outside Betws-y-Coed, and have been moving around the village since I was 8, so I have seen it grow in popularity over time. Betws is currently very popular, being as it is at the heart of Snowdonia and having the main road into North Wales running straight through it (A5). This does of course mean that this small village is extremely crowded during tourist season, and with the solitary police officer stationed only occasionally it can feel a little rowdy at times, especially since the pont-y-pair bridge has been known to attract a certain type of person for the extreme sport known as Tombstoning (basically jumping into the water below.... ...  Read the complete review

I recently wrote a review about the Snowdonia National Park in which I mentioned a lovely town called Betws-y-Coed and I thought, since it is such a lovely place, it deserved a review all to itself! Living as we do in Llandudno on the coast of North Wales we often go for a drive through Snowdonia National Park and we regularly stop at Betws-y-Coed for a cup of tea and a mooch round the shops. It is a really easy place to find as the A5 runs straight through the centre of the town. Looking at a map of the area it is pretty much due south from Llandudno and due east from Caernarvon. Web site There is a web site at ...  Read the complete review