me and my mate are taking a trip over to wales at the end of april. This is my intended itinerary.
I live in Stafford, he lives in Alsager, he has a van, I’ll drive to his and we’ll go from there.
We’re staying in Betws y Coed.
Day 1 Friday, Drive to Betws y Coed, check in accomodation. then drive to Llanberis & do a few road miles or some light XC not more than 10 miles around the area to warm up a bit. Then cycle up that there mountain and then back down again much faster, thinking early evening, descending hopefully just before sunset. Standard route up next to the train and down rangers/telegraph
Day 2 Saturday – Cycle the trails at Penmachno morning, have a late lunch then cycle the Marin trail. then curry or pizza with some premium lager.
Day 3 – Drive home via a loop of LLandegla.
The main decision that could be changed is which trail centre for the full days riding on the Saturday, I’ve plumped for the penmachno and marin over the coed y brenin trails because they are right on the doorstep of where we’re staying and coed y brenin is a 40 minute drive away. This means that we’ll be in the van for an hour and a half when we could be cycling. I could be persuaded to go to coed y brenin perhaps if people think it is vastly superior to both penmachno and the marin and could we get a full day out of the trails there? I’ve ruled out the track at antur stiniog coz we haven’t got full face helmets or armour and we’re both on 120-130 travel hard tails.
Any thoughts on the above or recommendations for pubs/reastaurants in Betws y Coed welcome. 🙂 thanks all.