PubHidden gem
Pen-y-Gwryd Hotel
Nant Gwynant, Wales
Climbers' hotel where the 1953 Everest team trained, with a public bar open for tea, cake and light lunches.
- Cost
- Paid
- Booking
- No need to book
- Time to allow
- 60 min
A mountaineering hotel at the A4086/A498 junction at the foot of the Llanberis Pass, where Hillary and Tenzing's team trained before Everest in 1953. The public bar serves tea, coffee, home-made cake and, Wednesday to Saturday lunchtimes, soup and toasted baguettes. Memorabilia from expeditions covers the walls.
Good to know
- Bar open Tuesday to Saturday, and bank holiday Sundays
- Soup and baguettes served 12-2pm Wednesday to Saturday
- Check seasonal opening before a winter visit
- Best time
- Tuesday to Saturday (Sundays on bank holiday weekends); lunch 12-2pm Wednesday to Saturday
- Open
- Seasonal, check website
- Getting there
- Beside the A498 at Pen-y-Gwryd, roadside parking
- Vehicles
- Fine in any car
- Dogs
- Dogs welcome
Facilities
- Toilets
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