Couple of us are heading down to Afan for the Nov 13/14th weekend. Any recommendations on places to stay, either b&b, bunkhouse or camping.

Cheers
Damitamit

Afan lodge.

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http://www.mountain-bike-accommodation.com/

10 min spin from either trail head
accomodation is brill
food is better, and well priced too
service has always been great.
free lock up provided, and the rooms have specific boxes for muckyclothes etc.

looking forward to next time we head back, in the near future hopefully.

will be my 5th visit iirc 🙂

Looks great but unfortunately its full that weekend.

Log cabins?
Right on the wall trail and next to the new 4X track. Been promising this to myself for a while.
Bryn bettws I think it’s called?

http://www.thequeensguesthouse.co.uk/.

Nice people, bike lockup, and staggering distance from the Drop Off Cafe…

I can vouch for bryn bettws really nice location next to the trails and with a bike park. Had a great night there earlier this year.

Afan lodge is nice but we stayed a Saturday night in May – £65 for a twin room B&B but last week, on a Monday they wanted £100 for the same room !
We ended up here http://www.castlehotelneath.co.uk/mountain_biking_packages.aspx

http://www.brynteghouse.com/mtb.html

Nice place, nice people
all the usual bike storage/washing facilities
It’s 100m from the trails & 500m from a decent pub

I can’t think of a downside

Another vote for Bryn bettws.
We stayed in the main block in September – great place

+1 uplink , excellent place to stop , been there the past 3 years you can’t go wrong for the cash , we stayed in rose cottage this year , excellent. went to afan lodge for food one night, small portions , overpriced crap , never again . the tea rooms food IS cheap and cheerful and there are a few good.places in maesteg to eat

Agree on all the above, as has been said often!

I can also recommend Luffy’s place – http://www.dropoffcafe.com/links.php

+ 1 for queens guest house I’ve been there a few times.
Stayed at the green lanterns last weekend though – it’s at the other end near the wall – nice place and the bonus of a steak restaurant and bar onsite!
http://www.greenlanterns.co.uk/

went to afan lodge for food one night, small portions , overpriced crap

I wouldn’t say that – the food we had last week was great & the portions were fine.

campiste at the afan trail centre? Stayed there twice before, dirt cheap and can stay about 10metres away from the trails. afan forest park

Its going to be REAL wet!! Its been Raining all day down here! 🙁

perhaps we just caught it on,a bad night.snaps, but none of us enjoyed it , I’m still having nightmares about there spicy parsnip soup, lol.

oh the tea rooms pub is an experience, one of the locals in there insists on telling joke after joke, think his name was ‘wayne’ anyone heard the farmer and the chicken one off him.?

+1 for brynteg guest house.

Bridgend pencoed travelodge, restuarant/pub next door. Next junction down m4 is big sainsburys for brekkie, £29 a double room or could fit 3 if you don’t mind sharing a double bed.

We use it every time we do afan.

We were going to head over to Afan that weekend, but then found out the Welsh Rally stage is going through there…

Trail closures:

http://www.afanforestpark.co.uk/Default.aspx?page=6486

🙁

seems only skyline affected so still plenty you can do there 😀

Skyline
Heartburn/Handy Andy and Grand Canyon still shut due to harvesting operations.

Wales Rally GB will be using the forest roads around the Skyline Trail:

There will be increased activity on and around the Skyline trail with the course being marked out and Marshalls working on the route from Sat 6th Nov – Mon 15th November.

The Skyline trail will be Closed on the 10th November for the competitors to recce the stages.

The Skyline trail will be closed from 9am Saturday 13th Nov to 9am on Monday 15th Nov for the Rally stages.