Access to the Bodnant Estate is very easy,
whether by road, rail or air:
Distances
Llandudno:
7 miles
Bangor:
21 miles
Chester:
48 miles
Liverpool:
64 miles
Shrewsbury:
74 miles
Manchester:
87 miles
London:
235 miles
Road
The A55 Expressway along the North Wales coast from Manchester and Chester is dual carriageway throughout, and the Bodnant Estate is only about 10 minutes drive off the A55, with Bodnant Garden/Gardd Bodnant well signposted from the junction of the A470 and the A55.
The A5 through Wales from Shrewsbury
to Holyhead comes within about 10 miles of the Bodnant
Estate.
The A470 (the main trunk road from North
to South Wales) runs along the Conwy Valley at the foot
of the Bodnant Estate.
Rail
The mainline railway from London to Holyhead (for the ferries to Ireland) runs along the North Wales coast. All trains stop at Llandudno Junction, which is only 15 minutes drive from the Bodnant Estate. The journey from London Euston to Llandudno Junction takes only about 3 hours.
There is a local line from Llandudno
Junction to Blaenau Ffestiniog, with a request stop at
Tal-y-Cafn (in the heart of the Bodnant Estate).
Air
Manchester International
Airport is only about 1½ hours away along the M56
and the A55 Expressway.
Liverpool John Lennon Airport is about
the same distance away.
Hawarden Airport and Caernarvon Airport
are each open to private aircraft, and each is only about
40 minutes away.
Car-hire
Cars are available for hire:
from all the major car-hire
companies at Manchester International Airport and Liverpool
John Lennon Airport; and
from Avis at Aberconwy Filling Station,
Conwy Road, Llandudno Junction (telephone number 01492
585101).