In the know
- Our favourite rooms
- Room names are numbers in Welsh: Dau is two; Naw is nine; Deg is 10. The family suites are the most spacious, with their own kitchenette cubby and huge sofas. Naw has a four-poster. All rooms are sea-facing (bar singles), but suckers for a view should go for upper floors: we loved lilac-hued Dau (pronounced ‘Di’) on the second floor.
- Packing tips
- When the sun shines, it’s glorious, but it’s better to play safe and take a windcheater or waterproofs, although if you do get caught out in a downpour, Llety has a drying room, which is in handy in bad weather.
- Also
- Hire the whole house for £1,000 a night; it sleeps up to 21. Llety can tailor individual packages, such as picnics on the beach, or special-occasion drinks parties for up to 40 and organise accommodation in the village for any extra people.
Current offers
- Smith card offer
- A croeso (welcome) room gift from the hotel’s adjoining homewares outlet, Seld Interiors, plus a 10 per cent discount in the shop
Llety Bodfor
Cardigan Bay, United Kingdom [view map]
- Style
- Boutique bed and breakfast
- Setting
- Hills at the back, sea to the front
Boutique Bed and Breakfast collection. ‘Welsh bed and breakfast’ and ‘contemporary comfort’ are clearly no longer mutually exclusive. This spruce mauve-painted seafront townhouse in Aberdovey (aka Aberdyfi) conceals a bright, wooden-floored living room and a world of vast fresh-linened, sheepskin-cushion-covered beds, huge TVs and brown-leather sofas, and a cheery attention to detail that has become the signature of interior designer Ann Hughes, one half of the husband-and-wife team behind Llety.
Need to know
- Rooms
- Eight individually decorated rooms, plus a self-catering apartment.
- Rates
- £115–£145, including breakfast and a newspaper of your choice.
- Check-out
- 11am. Earliest check-in, 2pm. If the hotel is quiet, they can be flexible.
- Facilities
- There’s a free DVD library and a huge vinyl collection to use in the lounge; car-parking permits available; ISDN in the reception area; adjoining gift/interiors shop. In rooms, widescreen TV and DVD player, minibar, Frette bedlinen, roll-top bath.
- Hotel closed
- Llety Bodfor closes for a few days over Christmas, but otherwise is open all year round.
- Also
- The hotel requires a two-night minimum stay at weekends.
Food & drink
- Hotel restaurant
- Breakfast is a fine spread served on the communal wooden table in the lounge. Specials change daily, with great eggs and smoked salmon on offer, as well as the full Welsh.
- Dress code
- Beach modern (plus woollies, windcheaters and warm socks, just in case).
- Room service
- A Continental breakfast can be served in your bedroom. From 10am to 10pm, snack-friendly soups and sandwiches will be whisked to you in the lounge, to order.
- Hotel bar
- You can fix yourself cocktails at most hours: there’s an honesty bar in the lounge.
Other facilities
- Children
- Free use of travel cot and highchair and even a ‘toddler backpack’ for beach walks, as it’s hard to take a pushchair. Under-fives stay free in their parents’ rooms, and an extra bed or cot can be provided; some rooms combine to form family suites. more info
Smith card offer
A croeso (welcome) room gift from the hotel’s adjoining homewares outlet, Seld Interiors, plus a 10 per cent discount in the shop
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Llety Bodfor
Bodfor Terrace
Aberdovey
Gwynedd