I've stayed here a few times for business and the hotel is fantastic. Great location - if a little remote - fabulous views, well equipped rooms. The restaurant serves great food but is expensive, as is the bar.
Can't speak highly enough of the staff, all of whom are excellent. Breakfast in particular is a real treat as you are often given an impromptu Welsh language lesson!
Only the food/bar prices and lack of local alternatives stops it being a 5!

Just got back from a one night stay.My husband and I had a lovely stay.Our room was lovely,it was very large the bed was massive!
Although there were a few minus points:
We were booked into the resturant at 8pm which was fine but we ordered our food we got most of our courses but it was 10pm before we got our main course! It was very busy but I do think this was a very long time to wait.
This has not put us off returning but I think maybe on a busy night there should be more staff.All the staff were very polite .

Large comfortable room. Lovely staff. Roaring fires. Great food.

This hotel is in the Handpicked chain, which we have found to be good and reliable. The hotel has been developed from an old farmhouse, with the barns being converted into the rooms and leisure complex.

We stayed in a junior suite, which had views over the grounds and countryside on two sides, from windows with wrought iron balconies and good thick curtains. The room was spacious and furnished with Far Eastern dragon and pearl carved rosewood furniture, including sofa and chairs, coffee table, wardrobe, dressing table, writing table, hallstand and a large bed with a canopy. It was usefully equipped with one luggage stand (why not two in a double room?), large television, ironing board, trouser press, hairdryer, dressing gowns and slippers and was cosily warm, clean and perfectly quiet. A kettle and tea making facilities were provided, though the coffee was instant. Wifi was said to be available in the room but was patchy.

Minor negative points were that the room was rather dim, with no good light near electric sockets, so hair drying was only possible by dragging the mirrored hallstand across to a socket; and whilst good looking, rosewood furniture is by no means comfortable, neither was the bed, though staff were able to find softer pillows, upon request, as those provided were like rocks.

The bathroom was large, with separate bath and shower, bidet and adequate surfaces for wash stuff, and the shower was good and strong. The pool complex was attractive, though small, with a small gym and a sauna.

The grounds are delightful, and included a formal garden, still retaining a few flowers even in January, a stream, fishing lake, fields of sheep and beyond them the river Seiont, rushing over rocks and boulders. A few intriguing outhouses and bothies and the abondoned farmhouse completed the rural charm.

All staff were very helpful and friendly without ever being intrusive and were able to provide helpful advice about sightseeing in the locality, and for this the hotel is very well located, being only a short drive from Snowdon and many mountain and hill walks, Caernarvon, Bangor and Llanberis.

If you enjoy fine dining, you will find the restaurant is as good as any in this style and probably better. The chef was accommodating, whipping up a smoothie, since, as ever in such restaurants, no fruit or fresh drinks were available with dinner. It seems conformity is essential for chefs to win awards. However, I very much deplore this style of cuisine, with its homogeneity and scant regard for nutrition and will be glad when fashion allows the return of individuality, fresh vegetables, fruits, a variety of textures and an understanding of nutritional balance. Current fine dining menus with their ubiquitous soft textures, veloutes, foams, reductions, emulsions and beetroot with everything have long since palled.

Breakfast, on the other hand was pretty good, with both a buffet, including several cereals, fruits, and a couple of Welsh specialities, and a choice of cooked foods.

All in all, it was well worth almost a whole days drive each way to spend just one entire day in this lovely setting.