The Wildings Hotel, Llandudno
Overview
The Wildings Hotel is a family-run Victorian seafront hotel on North Parade in Llandudno, opposite the pier. The beach is about a minute’s walk away. Many of the hotel’s 30 individually decorated rooms look out across the bay. Cats are welcome in designated pet-friendly rooms, with up to two pets permitted in total. The hotel also has its own restaurant and bar, Tudno’s, and a front terrace overlooking the bay.
The Property
The rooms were refurbished in 2022. Beds are king-size or twin in most rooms, and there are family rooms that sleep up to five. Every room has a private bathroom, tea and coffee making facilities, luxury toiletries, a TV, a hairdryer, an extra room heater, a fan and Wi-Fi. Depending on the room, bathrooms have a bath with a shower above or a walk-in shower.
Room choices include sea-view rooms on the first and second floors, some with bay windows and window seating. There are also partial sea-view rooms on the third floor and smaller double rooms at the back of the hotel. The Alice Suite is a sea-facing first-floor suite with a bay window, a separate seating area with a double sofa bed and a corner whirlpool bath. The Rhoda Suite is a sea-facing junior suite on the second floor with a king-size bed and a separate sitting area.
Downstairs, Tudno’s Restaurant and Bar serves lunch and dinner daily and welcomes non-residents. Breakfast is served each morning. There is a bar lounge and a coffee lounge to relax in, and in fine weather you can eat and drink on the terrace at the front of the hotel.
The hotel has a rich history. Alice Liddell, who inspired Alice in Wonderland, stayed here as a child in 1861, and the hotel’s suites are named after the story. The hotel does not have its own car park. Pay-and-display on-street parking is available directly outside.
For the Cat
Cats are welcome, with up to two pets permitted in total. Pets stay in designated pet-friendly rooms, which can be requested when booking, and must be supervised. Food and water bowls are available. A charge of £22.50 per pet, per night applies.
Accessibility
The hotel has a lift serving most floors, so most rooms can be reached without using the stairs. A small number of standard rear rooms are reached by stairs. Some bathrooms have walk-in showers.
Location
The Wildings sits on Llandudno’s award-winning North Shore. North Shore Beach is about a minute’s walk away and the promenade is around two minutes. Llandudno Pier is a 3 to 4 minute stroll, and the Great Orme Tramway is about 5 minutes on foot, giving easy access to the Great Orme summit and Great Orme Country Park. Shops, restaurants and pubs are close by. Venue Cymru, for theatre shows and events, is about a 15-minute walk, and Llandudno Station is around 12 minutes’ walk away.
Llandudno lies on the edge of Snowdonia, so the mountains and wider North Wales coast are easy to explore by car. Gwrych Castle is about a 20-minute drive away. Liverpool John Lennon Airport is roughly a 90-minute drive.
