Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Tourist Office
( 01286-672232;
www.visitsnowdonia.info
; Castle St; 9.30am-4.30pm Apr-Oct, 10am-3.30pm
Mon-Sat Nov-Mar; )
Opposite the castle's main entrance. It incorporates the Pendeitsh
Gallery, which hosts art exhibitions and a permanent display on Caernarfon's history.
Getting There & Away
BUS
Buses and coaches depart from the
bus station
(Pool Side)
.
hour) and London (£34, 9½ hours), via Bangor (£6.40, 25 minutes), Llandudno (£7.90,
one hour) and Birmingham (£29, six hours).
Buses include 1/1A to Bangor (22 minutes), Plas Menai (three minutes), Criccieth (50
minutes), Tremadog (56 minutes) and Porthmadog (one hour); 5/X5 to Bangor (30
minutes), Conwy (1¼ hours) and Llandudno (1½ hours); 12 to Parc Glynllifon (12
minutes) and Pwllheli (45 minutes); and 87/88/89 to Llanberis (30 minutes).
Snowdon Sherpa bus S4 heads to Beddgelert (30 minutes) via the Snowdon Ranger (19
minutes) and Rhyd Ddu (21 minutes) trailheads.
CAR & MOTORCYCLE
Free street parking is at a premium but you might snatch a park in the walled town (try
Church St) and there are highly contested free parks by the water on the south embank-
ment of Victoria Dock.
TRAIN
Caernarfon is the northern terminus of the
Welsh Highland Railway
( 01766-516024;
www.festrail.co.uk
)
tourist train, which runs to Porthmadog (£34 return, 2½ hours) via Rhd
Ddu (£21 return, one hour) and Beddgelert (£26 return, 1½ hours) from April to October.
The station is near the river on St Helen's Rd.
TOP OF CHAPTER
Bangor
POP 16,400
Like the jaunty one-hit wonder from 1980 suggests, a
Day Trip to Bangor
is plenty of
time to see this unassuming little city's sights, and even that is enhanced by drinking cider.
Dominated by its university and some rather large shopping centres, Bangor is the largest
city in Gwynedd and a major transport hub for North Wales, with plenty of onward con-
nections to Anglesey and Snowdonia.
