Description: (From their site) An ideal holiday location especially for families or groups keen to visit The Black Mountains, Brecon Beacons, or walk the Offa`s Dyke Path. The village has The Skirrid Mountain Inn, which is the oldest pub in Wales and was used as Judge Jeffrie`s Court. The scenery is superb with The Skirrid Mountain behind and The Black Mountains just beyond the village.
Site visited: 8th of April 2010.
As seen on the blog: The roads have gone pots.
Pen-y-dre is a nice little site attached to the farm, which also is a self catering farm holiday cottages along with a farm Bed & Breakfast, so a bit of everything. We didn’t see the cottages or the B&B from the inside but from the outside they looked very nice.
I had emailed the owner to hear if it was ok to arrive a bit late since we would be on the train from London via Cardiff, which wasn’t a problem. We arrived around 19:30 and was greeted by a barking dog and a smile by the owner, the dog soon went quite as soon as we said hello, some guard dog :)
We where pointed to the campsite which is on the other side of the to the farm. The site had around eight caravans there with some of them looking like they are there all year round. The shower and loo block was very clean and had clean towels out, a nice little touch. In the shower and loo block also had the washing basing for campers and hot running water.
The site was sandwiched in on two sides by road and on the third a paddock with two lovely horses. One of the roads is the busy A486 running between Abergavenny and Hereford, which made it a noisy night.
Contact Site:
www : http://www.penydre.co.uk
phone : 01873 890 246
Not the best location if you want a quite night, but if you want a great place to start your trip up into the Black Mountains and Brecon Beacons which we did on our tour up and over the Gospel pass to Hundred House.
Not what we expected, was kept up until 7 a.m with music one night, and the road noise is constant all night, the showers and toilets were not up to standard, no loo roll, and the towels were not changed over three days to dry your hands with. one night i woke up in the middle of the night to use the loo to be greeted by two drunk men in the female toilets which was very scary.. infact we went home early due to this.
sorry i wouldn’t recommend…
That was a nasty stay for you, we only had the road noise to deal with.
Hello Woollypigs,
Thank you for your nice comments about our campsite. loved your pictures of the Llanthony priory and Gospel Pass and of Plelli and the horses in the field by the campsite.