Y Gwydyr in Conwy

We visited the pub that is located in this hotel twice this week. It can only be described as an extraordinary experience. The kitchen is fantastic! This goes for both the Thai as well as the Welsh food. The beer is great, the atmosphere could not be better. The locals are extremely friendly and make you feel welcome as a tourist. The area around is beautiful, the scenery breath taking. What an awesome place! Apart from one other pub we visited during our holidays, this is definitely the best pub we have been to in Wales. To be honest, this is potentially the best pub I have ever visited anywhere.

We had a lovely one night stay. It's a great location for accessing the Eryri Nation Park Trail of Cwm Penamnnen. The staff welcomed us immediately and let us in to our room an hour early, which was nice! We were here on a Wednesday night, and the food on the menu was Thai. It was very authentic Phad Thai and Thai green curry - and extremely delicious! Our breakfast in the morning was wonderful as well! The owner let us leave our bags for the morning for our hike and welcomed us to stay in the bar while we waited our afternoon train. It was very nice of her 😊 A very cute place to stay and very welcoming. Would recommend to anyone who is looking for somewhere to stay in Dolwyddelan!

After an awesome day mine exploring with the ladies. It was great to be able to have a meal here. The Thai food was superb. And we always stop for a cheeky beer on the way home from an underground day in BF. Thank you for your great beer, food and hospitality.

Excellent staff, food and atmosphere. Accommodation was excellent.

What an absolute little gem and where to start with a good review. Arrived hour early and no issues checking in, grabbed 2 ales which were lovely and worth every penny. Shown to room which was big, all new fixtures and fittings, and spotlessly clean. All staff friendly and her helpful. Last but no means least the food was to die for. Chefs special of spicy beef with fresh vegetables, rice, and oriental soup was amazing. Wifes prawn thai curry equally as delicious. Compliments to the chef. Definitely recommend and would book again. Thank you for an amazing stay. Robert and Sophia Hewitt Room 2

Really nice staff. The food was great would highly recommend the prawn curry.

The Prawn Curry was amazing. Like a flavour explosion! And such good value. A lovely friendly pub in a beautiful setting.

Lovely friendly atmosphere, wonderful spicy and flavoursome Thai food as well as an excellent Welsh beef pie and chips. Good ale and lager and espresso to finish off. Definitely coming back. Thanks to our Pub's friendly and welcoming hosts

Wonderful warm welcome in this lovely old pub. The pub has a real local feel in the heart of North Wales and then they serve some of the best Thai food we've ever had! Normal pub staples also excellent. Will definitely be back. Thank you.

Really friendly pub on first arrival. Traditional with lots of space to eat or drink with a family or with dogs. We found a table right by the large fireplace to have our evening meal. The menu looked a little basic at first glance but the food was absolutely delicious and presented with great care. The owner of the pub and chef we understood is a Thai lady - hence the food was really good. Highly recommended the Beef Pie with peas and gravy!

We normally stay and dine in nearby Betws-Y-Coed but this time chose Y Gwydyr in Dolwyddelan because we wanted different walks from our ‘front door’ and had heard great things about the village. We were not disappointed. From the moment of booking we received a lovely, polite communication and when I messaged the hotel, the owner, Namthip (Thai heritage) responded swiftly. On arriving in the bar Namthip and the locals in there were all very welcoming and engaging. Gone are the days of walking into a pub and being stared at and hearing a pin drop - not here; a warm and friendly welcome by all! Even though we were early our room was ready and Namthip showed us up to it. Lovely and clean, soft towels, full bottled Radox toiletries and the whole place smelt amazing! After a few drinks outside (very reasonably priced) and a chat with a local (thank you Mark for the local info!) we headed inside for dinner. My partner had the Welsh beef pie and I had one of Namthip’s special Thai dishes (Thai night is usually Wednesdays) but there is usually a Thai special on each night. Both meals were delicious and very hot! We couldn’t recommend it highly enough. We had a starter each, main each and a bottle of red and it cost just under £60! Service was great too (thank you Beth)! Breakfast was equally superb - see pic! I can’t recommend this place enough - both to stay and eat! Give it a go and skip the bigger hotels in Betws and stay in a traditional Welsh village with great views and walks from the front door with far less people and no crowds - you won’t be disappointed! 😃

Beautiful old pub with so much character. We have visited twice on one day. First early afternoon coffee and cheeky drink before checking in to our accommodation and then in the evening for a dinner. Both visits were great and definitely memorable. Service was spot on, we've been looked after from the beginning. Great selection of drinks and very reasonable prices. Food is very good, freshly made by the owner, generous portions, great selection and again good prices. Pub was very busy in the evening, local residents and tourist, but no one was send away, owners found the spaces for everyone. every single person was fed and watered :) Fireplace was on full swing, warm and cosy. I'm sure we will come back next time we're in the area. Thank you for your hospitality :)

Absolutely fantastic place to visit, the food, service and the atmosphere are brilliant.. The hosts of that place are some of the nicest people that I have ever met. Definitely Highly Recommend 👍

Beautiful old pub with so much character. We have visited twice on one day. First early afternoon coffee and cheeky drink before checking in to our accommodation and then in the evening for a dinner. Both visits were great and definitely memorable. Service was spot, we've been looked after from the beginning. Great selection of drinks and very reasonable prices. Food is very good, freshly made by the owner, generous portions, great selection and again good prices. Pub was very busy in the evening, local residents and tourist, but no one was send away, owners found the spaces for everyone. every single person was fed and watered :) Fireplace was on full swing, warm and cosy. I'm sur we will come back next time we're in the area. Thank you for your hospitality :)

everyone was absolutely lovely and very accommodating! I had the garlic chicken stir fry rice which came with a fried egg. the flavour was incredible in a big portion size. would 100% recommend!

So yummy - got the veggie pad thai, so fresh!! ☀️

My family and I visited the pub a few times during our stay in Dolwyddelan and had a great time. We booked a table for the Thai food on the Wednesday which was sensational! Fresh, tasty and authentic, it is highly recommended. Hats off to the chef! The owner, staff and locals were very friendly and add to a really welcoming atmosphere. My son had a brilliant night when he discovered he could load the juke box up with Nirvana songs. The owner even cranked the volume for him and a few joined him in rocking out. This is a proper pub 🍻

Just had the very best Thai food we have ever had! What a wonderful pub, very friendly locals and although we hadn't booked for food, they went out of their way to ensure we were fed and watered. Brilliant and will definitely be visiting again. Also pet friendly, always a bonus 🤩 Thank you 🤗

Just had a lovely weekend in North Wales, staying in a newly refurbished room at Y Gwydyr Hotel in Dolwyddelan. Great place to stay, lovely room, lovely bar, great locals, fab Guinness and amazing Thai food produced by Namthip. We will definitely be returning here and highly recommend this place / area. Dollwyddellan is a short drive from Betws-y-Coed. Trains run between Dollwydellan and Betws-y-Coed every few hours.

This pub has had such a turn around with the owners taking it back over! Namthip, Urien and their team have made this a warm and welcoming place, with delicious food and a great selection of drinks, along with Wednesday's home cooked Thai Food! Da Iawn pawb! Cannot fault at all!

We came here for a few drinks on the way back home from a walk What a beautiful place ,suchba warm welcome Open log fire ,lovely beer and such a nice atmosphere, especially the owner whonis so friendly Lovely to see how it's been done up inside Will definitely be back

Stayed with my family in Dolwyddelan. A local recommended we try the pub, especially the Thai Wednesday food. We decided to book and we were blown away. The chef and wife of the owner cooked some of the best Thai food I've ever had. Pictured is the Thai Holy Basil which was so tasty, we also ordered the Pad Tai, Chicken Satay and Green curry. The latter was a high point, best Green curry I've had o think. Very well priced and the regulars are very welcoming.

A recently refurbished (2024) warm and welcoming village pub. Always guaranteed a friendly reception. Dog friendly. Excellent authentic Thai food on a Wednesday evening.

Fantastic pub, excellent food, service and atmosphere. Best pub in Wales in my opinion!

Under new management Namthip has made an outstanding job of overhauling the pub into a vibrant centre for the local community and visitors alike. Serving anything from coffee and cake through to top class Thai food. Great value, service and atmosphere. Lovely garden too.

Some of the best Thai food we've tasted, fabulous value for money, a friendly welcoming atmosphere and a warm cosy fire.... what more could you ask for 😁 We'll definitely be back!

So welcoming and couldn't have done more to help us. We turned up as 5 guys absolutely soaked to the bone, but they happily set us up by the fire, made us some decent food despite the kitchen not being open and then made sure we got home safe during Storm Bert! Superstars!

Lovely cosy pub, very welcome after a long walk in the hills.

Great accommodation and food. Room and bed was lovely and we enjoyed our stay

Super pub, highly recommended, warm and friendly atmosphere

Popped in for coffee and cake with friends lovely welcome good coffee Definitely will go again

First time I have visited this little pub. Excited to return to try out the food.

Long hard walk. Nice to meet the landlady and get coffee and cake which was excellent. Want to come back.

Such lovely people, made a fuss of my son on his birthday and really helpful about the local area, made time to sit and talk to us. Will be back for sure when we are in the area to try the food from the kitchen opening soon x

Didn't sample any food, coffee only. But service and facilities are excellent.

Welcomed us in on a rainy morning on a long hike, to sit by the fire and have a great coffee! Very friendly and welcoming. The pub itself is also beautiful. Highly recommend! Thank you so much :)

Wow! The new look Gwydyr Hotel is fantastic! Friendly, full of character and renovated to a high standard. A lovely interior, great for all drinks and great coffee with a cafe side and a pub side, a lovely beer garden with great views, there's everything there you could want. Highly recommended! Food is due to start soon and I bet that will be wonderful too 😁

Lovely local pub. The owners and locals made us feel very welcome. Will miss them

Lovely place, very quaint. Very kind and friendly staff

Really nice old school pub. Lovely friendly people and the food was nice! Would recommend 👍

charming small pub with home made meals, vegetarian options as well. A nice pint in front of the wood fire. Id recommend anyone to stop by, especially after an adventure in Blaenau Ffestiniog.

Lovely little pub, lovely home cooked food, very reasonably priced, if I lived in the area it would definitely be my local. My only criticism would be that there are just a few too many cobwebs hanging around, oh and better wine would be a bonus.

A solid, quality pub. Pints were fairly priced. The bartender and locals were friendly and chatted a bit. A wood fireplace added a friendly, natural warmth. There is a pool table. Couches were comfortable. Fast wifi. All in all, I enjoyed it and would come back when I'm in the area.

A real pub with real people, packed with big characters. Welsh is the first language of the village and is used freely in the pub, however, everyone is included and welcomed. Beer is really well priced for those wanting a bargain, less than £3 for bitter and the homemade meals are great value with the best chips in Wales, basic but tasty and plentiful. Spent two evenings here and I loved the place and the people, they don't make an effort to include you just feel immediately included. Great banter. There was a wide spectrum of people from a Scouser to a Czech lady and English settlers, In this mix the Welsh language was alive and well. The free-flowing humour between everyone gave the place its infectious character. Particular thanks to Peter and Sarah who run it, (Sarah's chips were slightly better :)) Ellen the barmaid was such great fun. If you would go to Paris and drink in an Irish bar then this place may not be for you, if you want to go to Wales and drink in a proper pub with proper people then roll your sleeves up and go in for a couple of pints, it will be an experience!

Visited this traditional country pub on the day we were viewing a property. So welcoming we stayed for dinner. The home cooked dinner was so nice I ordered it again and had seconds!! No comparison to the month we've just spent in America, dreadful food. Since been back and spent many hours and dinners here, we're almost locals now haha. Yes the fag butt's outside are dire but that's down to disrespectful smokers that think it's acceptable!

Came here for dinner on the off chance there would be availability since we couldn’t get through to book on the phone. We arrived and were told it would be a 40 min wait for food, since 1 table of 4 has ordered before us… We got drinks to pass the time, served with sparing ice but fine all the same. Fortunately the food arrived in under 30 mins, but unfortunately it wasn’t up to the standard expected. The curry was ok, but looked very unappetising and the lasagne was clearly reheated under a grill and looked past its best. Portion sizes however were decent. Coming from a small village, it’s obviously valued for its charm and authenticity but I wouldn’t recommend it as a regular stop. Probs won’t be returning.

Very friendly, locally run, village pub with good food and good beer. Can't go wrong with a stop here before or after a hike.

Very friendly pub - relaxed crowd of locals. I hadn’t had a drink in this pub for nearly 50 years but it soon felt like yesterday- although they had moved the dart board in the interim! Good value - great pub food - fun night!

Such a shame as this little village pub has huge potential. Seriously lacking in some TLC, decor, cleaning. Everywhere we looked were cigarette ends, weeds, general disrepair. If you're going to have hanging baskets, weed them and put flowers in! Or take them down. The pub was full of dogs, and being only a small place, it felt like we were trapped in a kennel. Food was very below par and although it's menu says 'homemade' I doubt that very much. Personally I'd sack any cook that declared that as homemade. I'd know boil in the bag rice and tinned meat anywhere. The bread was so hard I'm sure I've chipped a tooth! The vegetarian option had probably been found at the bottom of the freezer and tasted and smelt quite old. As there are quite a few excellent reviews, maybe the regular cook was ill? But I'd never go again. Worst meal out we've ever had.

Excellent good old fashioned pub with great atmosphere I really enjoyed it, keep it up

Has a 1 star food hygiene rating on Food Standards website. Yuk.

Meeting long lost family from the States staying in the village, we were tired after a long day visiting local sights, and so settled to eat at Y Gwydir. I'd not been there for about 10 years and was pleased to see how clean and well decorated it was. It busy with locals in the bar, and lovely to see Ellen, whom I'd known many years before, coping so professionally behind the bar! Our food was plentiful, and mine certainly well cooked - my cottage pie was more than enough for me, and was the very best I had ever eaten! The only very minor downside was that they had run out of peas to accompany it, so I had to settle for sweetcorn, of which there was far too much! If I'd thought at the time, I would happily have run over to the village shop opposite and brought back a pack of frozen peas!!

Great little local pub, friendly staff and locals, free pool table too!

Lovely pub, spend just over an hour here. The kitchen wasn't open when I visited at 3:30pm, but they still offered to make me some gamon and chips. It was delicious and very reasonably priced.

Good typical local pub. Not a huge selection of beer on tap but staff were very friendly and welcoming. Sausage & Mash was 10/10

Lovely village pub, really friendly landlord. Villagers welcoming too.

Very nice little local traditional pub, friendly

Came here after a walk up the Glyders and the staff were very friendly and accommodating and cooked us some chips. Lovely sunny garden. Also very reasonably priced drinks!

Had to wait here from 2-8pm one day very friendly and hospitable staff, owner pete is a top dude him and some of the locals helped me out planning my route back to llandudno during rail strikes, 12/10, top banana

Absolutely fabulous find, great service, great home cooked food. Really should visit. Not to be missed.

I can not even begin to tell you how amazing this venue is. The food was freshly cooked and brilliant Definitely worth a visit Thank you so much

Dog friendly, great service didn't stick around for food but a great cozy pub well worth stopping in.

Friendly man who recommended good food to us. Enjoy view there. Beer garden there.

Spent a couple of days nearby, cosy , friendly pub, really tasty food at good prices, Would definitely go again when in the area

Visiting friends and dropped in as this is now his local, very welcoming and friendly. Good prices and decent pub grub. Friendly staff

We really liked this rural, friendly pub. The beer was great and we loved sitting by the open fires after a long day of walking in the mountains. We went there every day while staying in the village.

Brilliant food, great open fires and lovely staff. Will come back

Looked around on maps for a nice traditional local style pub, chose this one and what a choice, food is delicious, beer tastes delicious, staff are very nice, and the building itself is beautiful, will be coming again 100%

Wow, wow, wow! Hands down the best roast dinner I've ever had in any pub or restaurant. Friendly staff and locals, even did food slightly off the menu for us. Wish I could give more stars. We are not local, but we will definitely be back. XxX

Great pub. Real fires, slate floors local beer, everything a wet and weary walker needs.

Lovely place, extremely competitive pricing, great beer and wholesome food. Perfect end destination after a long cold hike up in the near by mountains. Recommended!

Great food and beer and very good pricing. Really enjoyed ourselves thank you. Paul and Debbs.

A very welcome break on a journey. Food excellent real chips and the owner was so pleasant and friendly. I recommend this pub to everyone.

What a truly local welcoming pub, we were staying in a cottage in the village of Dolwyddelan for a week and made this place our go to for a few drinks each afternoon/evening and even had a meal on our last night as they had just opened the refurbished kitchen and we were tempted by the homemade lasagne and much talked about lamb burger. The landlord Pete and locals were really lovely and made us feel part of the community during our stay. Well worth a visit or two!

Lovely little pub. Really friendly owner.

Lovely drinks on a very warm day sadly no food as they are refurbishing very polite staff and locals friendly

only called in for drinks staff and the locals were very friendly shame they didn't do food due to the kitchen being refurbished a very clean & tidy pub with a good beer garden

Had a great evening in here, very pleasant staff and friendly

Nice pint, good selection of cider & ales, friendly staff, sadly no longer serving any food. The writing is probably on the wall for yet another traditional local pub...hope I'm proved wrong.

Best pub experience we've ever had. Thank you!!

Great little pub with lovely staff and locals are a hoot! The Purple Moose on tap was excellent.

Friendly and cheap pub. Lots of character.

Nice food and beer with friendly service

Seriously good chips! Absolutely no nonsense food and mega tasty, excellent atmosphere if you're looking for a proper local pub. Great beer and friendly. Highly recommend.

Good no nonsense pub, with good beer

On our honeymoon in 1995 we stayed in the village and this was our local. We returned with our 2 children several years later. Lovely pub, staff, food, and atmosphere . Hoping to return soon.

Great. Very friendly and served beer.

Great little locals pub. We stopped in for a quick drink, and pub atmosphere was quite welcoming. Staff was very friendly. When in the area again, we would definitely make a return visit.

Great little locals pub. We stopped in for a quick drink, and pub atmosphere was quite welcoming. Staff was very friendly. When in the area again, we would definitely make a return visit.

Will be great once refurbished complete. Great hospitality in the meantime and difficult circumstances

local pub but very friendly. nice owners but a little rustic!

Quality homemade food, good pub atmosphere. No nonsense, spot on

I know some on here have said don't let the decor put you off, and I know these are hard times for smaller pubs, but I couldn't bring myself to do anything more than have a couple of quite unremarkable pints from a sparsely-stocked bar. The pub has a magnificent beamed ceiling but the rest is badly in need of attention and the place just didn't feel comfortable - and the atmosphere was zero. Has to be said, the food I saw being served did look good but the guy serving it didn't exactly fill me with confidence. I like lots of different types of pubs, however basic, but I struggled to find any redeeming features in this one. Like I acknowledged, these are hard times - hopefully this village pub has a future.

Lovely people, lovely food. Made us feel really welcome. We was rooting for the Welsh today!

Friendly pub. A couple of real ales and basic pub menu -great homemade chips!

Very cost effective but it has to be as decor is rustic to the point of shabby. Good quality hearty roast with good portions but barely any atmosphere.

Home cooked food delicious but inside desperately needs some TLC

Excellent Sunday lunch. Good value for money. Good atmosphere.

Great little place to relax with great food

Visited whilst staying in the village. Great food,reasonably priced. Would recommend but don't be put off by the decor which needs some updating. Staff were friendly as were most of the locals.