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What a historic place, the home town of Dr William Price, pioneer of cremation and one of the greatest Welshmen. The old bridge was the envy of the world when built. Lots of great cafes and pubs and the people are so friendly. Ynysangharad Park is the jewel in the crown. Clwb y Bont is great for live music and the Llanover Arms is full of history, and the local pub of Evan and James James, composers of Hen Wlad fy Nhadau.

Very comfortable room, not too small. Really good water pressure in the shower. Nice bathroom. All very clean. Friendly and helpful receptionists. We enjoyed our evening meal and breakfast. The coffee was pretty food for a machine (2 Italians in our group).

I liked everything about my stay in Pontypridd, both the town itself and the hotel. The hotel has a sister property, which is a bar and restaurant and this was excellent for food. The town has a wonderful park in its' centre, with a beautiful Lido.

Pontypridd surprised us, in a good way! It had very vibrant indoor and outdoors markets which offered a huge variety of items. The meat stalls looked wonderful. The shopping centre was equally diverse with some 'chain' stores but many independent stores too. There were some lovely shops selling unusual baby clothes and a fantastic flower shop, Elyn Boutique Faux Wedding Flowers, which specialised in wedding arrangements and flowers which had the most amazing display outside. As we were staying there so we could attend a wedding celebration nearby we really did not see the shops in detail but were amazed at the diversity of shops. The park was a beautiful place to spend some relaxing time and it was lovely to be able to look at the river and the birds on it from a number of bridges. The one way system and roads that were only accessible at certain times was challenging, but we managed to get around at the times we needed to. Parking rules were unclear to us so we parked in a carpark that the hotel gave us a permit for. The town was very clean apart from some areas in the evening, but the areas were cleaned up each morning. The town is vibrant and therefore noisy at night so a central hotel will come with the noise of music and loud shouting, laughter etc which might disturb some people. We had a meal in Alfred's Bar and Grill and were very pleased with the excellent quality of service, ambience and food. It was nothing like we expected to find in the area. I would highly recommend eating there. We would happily return to Pontypridd and spend more time there.

Views around the hotel probably is the only thing that I would recommend Our room number 7 with unacceptable terrible damp smelling mouldy a broken rotten window frames carpet badly soiled dirty ruffled health and safety would have something to say and probably would advise not using this room, bedlinen looked like it hadn’t been changed , dirty very dusty we wrote our names on the shelves very low standard both the bedroom and the bathroom, I could go on much more but I would say £220.50 for that room and without breakfast is shameful, I arrived in my camper van and seriously thought I’d been happy to stay in it .

Good shopping street, varied outlets, close to Cardiff and M4 links. Beautiful scenery in the Rhondda Valley. Lots of local historic attractions. Mining history and Brecon Beacons on your doorstep. Fabulous South Wales.