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Conwy's train station is just inside the town walls, on Rosemary Lane. Direct services
head to/from Holyhead (£13.50, one hour), Rhosneigr (£13.50, 44 minutes), Llanfair PG
(£7.60, 26 minutes), Bangor (£6.30, 17 minutes) and Shrewsbury (£20, 2¼ hours).
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Llandudno
POP 20,700
Wales' biggest seaside resort straddles a flat peninsula, with long sandy beaches on either
side. The twin humps of ancient mountains, the Great Orme and Little Orme, loom over
the graceful Victorian wedding-cake architecture of the seafront buildings that line the
sweeping 2-mile prom for half its length. Developed as an upmarket holiday town,
Llandudno still retains much of its 19th-century grandeur today. Innumerable B&Bs and
small private hotels cater to mainly mature-aged travellers in the low season, while young
families descend with their buckets and spades in summer.
Alongside the lost-in-time charms of the British seaside (pier, promenade, Punch and
Judy shows), Llandudno's main attraction is the near-wilderness of the Great Orme on its
doorstep. Old-school tram and cable-car rides head to the summit of this striking lime-
stone headland where there are breathtaking views of the Snowdonia range and miles of
trails to explore.
A very tenuous link to
Alice In Wonderland
(Alice Liddell, the real inspiration for
Lewis Carroll's fictional Alice, used to holiday here with her family) has seen statues of
the characters sprout around the town, along with gift shops full of Alice memorabilia.
