Hotels in Beaumaris

Beaumaris punches well above its size when it comes to places to stay, a legacy of its Georgian and Victorian years as Anglesey's smartest town. At the top end sit a handful of genuinely distinctive addresses: a French-Gothic château overlooking the Menai Strait, a grand Georgian seafront hotel built for a royal visit, and a fifteenth-century coaching inn now run as a boutique townhouse with an award-winning kitchen. These suit anyone treating Beaumaris as the destination rather than a stopover, and most are within easy walking distance of the castle and the water.

In the middle of the market, Beaumaris keeps its pub-hotel tradition alive, with rooms above working bars on Castle Street and the seafront offering straightforward comfort, real ale, and some of the best-value views in town. These properties tend to suit couples and small groups who want a base close to the action without upmarket prices, and they double as some of the town's most reliable places to eat and drink of an evening.

At the more modest end, Beaumaris has a good spread of small guest houses and bed and breakfasts, several in historic townhouses just off the main streets, offering a handful of rooms, personal service and views across the strait to Snowdonia that larger hotels charge considerably more for. These suit couples on a short break and solo travellers who want a quieter, more personal stay.

Because Beaumaris is compact, location matters less for convenience than for outlook: a room facing the strait costs more but delivers one of the best views available from any small town in Wales, while a room a street back can be had for noticeably less without losing the five-minute walk to the castle, the pier and the restaurants. Booking ahead for summer weekends and market Sundays is advisable across every price bracket, since the town's total room count is modest relative to its popularity.