Swansea/Mumbles people?

goldentouch

Can anyone recommend a good hotel on the beach?

Our option so far is the Oxwich Bay which has a fab location but the reviews are not good.

Is there anywhere better? Thanks.

catanna4u

Nicholaston house in Oxwich is very good. peaceful place, run by christians. rooms are beautiful. so is the view :-)

do a google search for them.

davelewis

Depends if you want to stay in Gower or Swansea. Marriott in Swansea is on the seafront and in City - ideal for a bit of seaside and city. For Gower try the North Gower Hotel - fantastic views over loghour estuary and great price/food

pavlovs_dog

be warned that a lot of the places along the main road into swansea - the ones directly opposite the beach - look the the type of places that people enter and never leave alive :eek: :rotfl:

i've never stayed in any of them, but drive past almost every day and TBH they dont look like the most inviting places. and when you can see into the bedrooms and see garden tables and chairs at the windows (to think, they cant even make the rooms people can see into off the street look good :eek:), it doesnt give the best first impression.

unless you are very brave, i'd try for somewhere a bit more upmarket that the seafront B&Bs

pavlovs_dog

although i suppose having said all that, unless you plan on doing more than sleeping/washing and perhaps eating in the hotel, i'd go for the cheapest you can find and spend as little time as possible there.

Swattie

If you are happy with B&B the Beach House Hotel on the Mumbles front - close to the pier is a friendly family run place - around 12 en-suite bedrooms.
Tel 01792 367650.
Overlooks Mumbles Bay.

Can't walk to the Gower Beaches have to drive, but Langland only 5 mins away. Also convenient for all the pubs, restaurants, parks, little shops etc. (just a short walk away so not to be affected by the noise) and across the road is the coastal path for an evening walk.

PS Camped at Oxwich this summer and ate at the Hotel - very overpriced for what you get and the food isn't great. Also if you're stuck at Oxwich for the night there is nothing else to do but go into town or Mumbles.

Would not recommend the B&Bs closer to town.

(Lived in Mumbles for 2 yrs and Swansea for 14 so do know the area)

pavlovs_dog

Tom_Jones wrote:

Slightly derogatory comments there when you haven't even been inside the premisis IMO.

I've stayed in quite a few of the seafront properties the best is the Seahaven, cheap clean rooms, good food and beer and nice owners. **shameless advert removed**.

firstly, my comments were largely said in jest

secondly, as i said if you'll do me the good grace of reading my post, a lot of these places dont do themselves any favours. if im staying in a B&B, no matter how basic, i expect better than plastic garden furniture in the bedroom. and im sorry, but when this is visable fom the street, it is simply unforgiveable. what kind of first impression is that giving to potential customers. well look at it this way...i WOULD have been a potential customer, until i saw that.

places like these are often packed out with contractors and builders who are looking for a cheap place to have a few beers and rest their head after a hard days work. perhaps the OP is going to swansea on a short break, and would like something that offers a little more comfort for her money than some hard, uncomfortable plastic garden chair as an "easy" chair.

regardless of whether you agree with me, i have more than justified why i hold the opinions i do about the place. i never told the OP to "run for the hills", i was offering an opinion, as someone who knows swansea, to someone who perhaps doesnt. someone who therefore, might only have photos on a website of what, from the outside in the present day, appear to be second rate B&Bs. having been on several of the websites (wondering how mch they charge for use of afore mentioned garden furniture :eek: ), many of the pictures of the outside are not a true representation of the current appearence of the hotel. why should the photos of internal rooms be any more truthful? :cool:


and thirdly, i was under the dillusion that promoting your own property on these boards was against the rules and ethos of the site

Tom_Jones

Did I post a link to the website that my property is listed on ?

Personally you sound like a snob to me, never judge a book by it's cover is the old adage, if you don't want to stay in a B+B that you don't like the look of then that's entirely up to you, but many people would be more than happy to stay in the properties on the seafront road to Mumbles and who knows what the budget of the person who asked is.

pavlovs_dog

Tom_Jones wrote:

Personally you sound like a snob to me

Tom_Jones wrote:

never judge a book by it's cover is the old adage

practice what you preach is another

MACacd

The Seahaven hotel is nice, I used to have beans on toast with my granddad there when I was a kid, and so it holds a warm glowing place in my heart.

LukeSkywalker_2

You could stay in the Marriot for a quarter of the cost - use Tesco Clubcard Deals Tokens and a double room (with TWO double beds and other luxuries) with a sea view could be yours for around £32 per night in coupons.

Go gt! (are you the same one from MSE Arms?)