Pontcanna Inn

About Pontcanna Inn

The Pontcanna Inn is a pub with rooms in the truest sense: a busy neighbourhood bar and dining room downstairs, ten individually decorated bedrooms above. It stands on Cathedral Road at the point where the Victorian villas give way to Pontcanna proper, a fifteen to twenty minute walk from Cardiff Castle either along the road or, more pleasantly, through Bute Park and across the Taff.

Downstairs the kitchen turns out pub classics and Sunday roasts, there are screens for rugby and football, and the outside terraces fill on a warm evening. Both the bar and several of the rooms are dog-friendly, and the whole place is relaxed about children, which makes it an easy option for families who would rather not stay in a large hotel. Part of the Young's group, it maintains a consistent standard without feeling corporate.

Pontcanna itself is the reason to choose this over a city-centre room. The surrounding streets hold independent delis, coffee shops and some of Cardiff's better restaurants, Sophia Gardens and Llandaff Fields are minutes away, and the Taff Trail runs past for walkers and cyclists. Expect noise from the bar at weekends if you take a room at the front, and note that parking is on-street.