Trearddur Bay, Anglesey

[rst99]

We are thinking about booking a cottage in Trearddur Bay, Anglesey this summer. I have never been to this part of the country. It looks nice.

Does anyone have any experience of this area.

thanks

[j4ckos mate]

Lovely beach, nice warm sea, not much to do around there, especially at night, in the week you can see the jets from raf valley every shooting over every few minutes.

there is a nice beach with a wood right upto the sand a few miles away, and you can always go to portmeirion

id happily do a week there but not much for wife and kids to keep them occupied.


i think if you were there for two weeks, the second week youd be out and about in the car

Edited by j4ckos mate on Sunday 20th March 21:36

[MarvinManUK]

j4ckos mate said:

Lovely beach, nice warm sea, not much to do around there, especially at night, in the week you can see the jets from raf valley every shooting over every few minutes.

there is a nice beach with a wood right upto the sand a few miles away, and you can always go to portmeirion

id happily do a week there but not much for wife and kids to keep them occupied.


i think if you were there for two weeks, the second week youd be out and about in the car

Edited by j4ckos mate on Sunday 20th March 21:36

+1

Sums it up quite well.

I've lived on Anglesey for near enough my entire life. Treaddur Bay is a lovely place to stay when the weather is bright but a rough coast can make it look a little depressing; like a lot of other places, i'd imagine.

As mentioned above, there's not that much to do here on Anglesey but it isn't all doom and gloom. After your first week of staying at Treaddur Bay, you'll no doubt want to get out and explore; like said before

The main things to go out and explore are:

Amlwch - I happen to live here and it has a very rich history in copper mining, this is reflected by various museum and sometimes even events. Because the mining industry was so rich here, Amlwch has a very interesting maritime history. The harbour is well worth taking a trip to in the summer; with a couple of schooner ships paying a small visit.

Bull-Bay is located 2 or so miles west of Amlwch, along the coast line and again, provides some very clear and picturesqe views of the coast. Sadly though, that's about it in terms of things to do but if your a keen golfer, then there's a fantastic golf course that is well worth a visit.

Cemaes Bay - Again, not too far from Amlwch and it share's an even bigger maritime history. It's a very picturesque village with some gorgeous places to stay and eat. Restaurants in particular are a rather nice way to spend the evening, overlooking the very traditional harbour. The only eye sore to Cemaes Bay is Wylfa nuclear power station but if you stick to Cemaes center, it shouldn't be too much of a bother

Located near Cemaes Bay is a small sea-food restaraunt called The Lobster Pot; I cannot recommend it enough, gorgeous food if sea-food is your 'thing'.

Aberffraw/Rhosneigr - This area tends to be quite familiar here at the PH massive, due to Anglesey Circuit being located here; but there are other things to do besides the track.

Aberffraw is a very, very small village but has some very nice, small beaches scattered along it's coast. If it's a very sunny day, I highly recommend popping to Abberffraw and taking a walk along the bike path towards Newborough beach. It's a fairly long walk to the beach and back, but it's certainly quite a pleasent walk due to the brilliant views, endless sand dunes, very well kept walking routes and bike paths. If a long walk is not your thing; there's a free car park right next to the beach.

Rhosneigr has much more active activites available such as golfing, angling, skuba diving, sailing and most popularly; wind surfing. Obviously these are very weather dependant.

Holyhead is the next stop, fairly easy to find being the main route to Ireland. In my personal opinion Holyhead is a little to built up, but I'm more used to country living so Holyhead might just appeal to you. Again, massive maritime history and this is shown in it's various pubs, bars and restaraunts; I'd have to get back to you in regards to what pub, bar or restaraunt is more recommended but a rule of thumb is to stick along the dock/harbour area. The "yoofs" seem to of taken up the outskirts.

A place that's worth coming to take a look at is South Stack island, just off the western side of Holyhead mountain. On a nice sunny day, South Stack is well worth a visit. You can even pop inside the lighthouse after the rather knackering walk down South Stack's infamous staircase.

It's also worth noting that there's a Tesco just as you come into Holyhead. Very handy for supplies, as you may know.

There's quite a few other points that I could go over, but it would take a fair bit of time; plus I'm rather tired . Hopefully I've covered the main points though, just give me a shout if you need some more info. I'd be more than happy to help.

Also if you want, I could plot all the useful places on a Google map for you? If you want, of course.

Links said:

Lobster Pot (Church Bay)
Amlwch, Amlwch Wiki
Rhosneigr, Rhosneigr Wiki
Aberffraw, Aberffraw Wiki
Cemaes Bay, Cemaes Bay Wiki
Holyhead, Holyhead Wiki

Edited by MarvinManUK on Sunday 20th March 23:05

[rst99]

Many thanks for the responses.

[Rouleur]

The White Eagle at Rhoscolyn is a great pub/restaurant, at least once you've finally made it there! http://www.white-eagle.co.uk/index.shtml

Also Ann's Pantry in Moelfre http://www.annspantry.co.uk/ and the Old Boathouse at Red Wharf Bay http://www.boathouserestaurantanglesey.co.uk/ are both great.

If your timing is good you could maybe include a track day..?

[GreatGranny]

Been a few times with the family (wife + 3 kids under 10) and loved it. Great beaches, can be windy but its an island so take the wind break.

Stayed at Home Farm caravan Park and tried most of the beaches on the east/north east coast. I like Benllech, good for the kids, you can park really close and there is a shop/kiosk. Also the last time we went there was a church group doing kids entertainment every day. A lot of the activities had religeous themes but the kids loved it.

Beaumaris castle is good too if you want a break from the beach or its crap weather.