Château Rhianfa

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8.3 / 10.0

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2 guests · 1 bedroom · 1 bath

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About this country house rental

With a private beach and panoramic views over the Menai Straits, Château Rhianfa is set in a Grade II listed Victorian villa. A tennis court, We also have a wine cellar with wine tasting experiences.

Amenities at Château Rhianfa

Free WiFi/internet

Free Parking

Non-smoking

Heating

Wheelchair accessible

Bar

Balcony/Terrace

WiFi/Internet

Private beach access

Beach access

Shared living spaces

Garden

Accessible Parking

Electric Vehicle Charging Station

Fireplace

Beach front

Family friendly

Smoking allowed

Safe

Accessible by lift

Key access

Contactless check-in/out

Housekeeping available

Fire alarm

Fire extinguisher

Cleaning products

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Nearby attractions

Sgwd Yr Eira Waterfall

103.9 mi

Bwlch Nant yr Arian Forest Visitor Centre

57.9 mi

Small Breeds Farm Park and Owl Centre

86.4 mi

Devil's Bridge Falls

60.8 mi

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Top rated by guests

8.3Excellent

(883 Ratings)

"Beautiful"

Verified guest

Don't miss out! Price and availability may change

$$$$

8.3 / 10.0

Excellent(883 Ratings)

Country House in Wales

2 guests · 1 bedroom · 1 bath

Reasons to book

Guests love it hereGuests give this property a top rating

Top-tier experienceA high end property in this area

Book with confidenceWe partner with the top travel sites so you know you're getting a great deal on the perfect rental

Map of Wales

Nearby attractions

Sgwd Yr Eira Waterfall

103.9 mi

Bwlch Nant yr Arian Forest Visitor Centre

57.9 mi

Small Breeds Farm Park and Owl Centre

86.4 mi

Devil's Bridge Falls

60.8 mi

About this country house rental

Amenities

Free WiFi/internet

Free Parking

Non-smoking

Heating

Wheelchair accessible

Bar

Balcony/Terrace

WiFi/Internet

Private beach access

Beach access

Shared living spaces

Garden

Accessible Parking

Electric Vehicle Charging Station

Fireplace

Beach front

Family friendly

Smoking allowed

Safe

Accessible by lift

Key access

Contactless check-in/out

Housekeeping available

Fire alarm

Fire extinguisher

Cleaning products

Ratings and reviews

8.3 / 10.0

Excellent(883 Ratings)

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7.0 / 10.0

Nice stay but wouldn’t return

Lovely period property. Stunning views and surroundings

We stayed in the lodge. We paid an upgrade to include an en-suite bathroom. The door to the room appeared loose and when walking on the bedroom floor, or when people walked past in the corridor, the door would rattle. We went for a drink in the bar, but despite being residents at the hotel we were not allowed to sit in the large adjoining rooms, which are beautiful and had spectacular views, as they were all booked for afternoon tea guests. The bar seating is minimal with only 2 or 3 comfy chairs and 3 bar stools. Some guests left without purchasing a drink due, to there being no seating. The service was slow, although I do not blame the staff, as they were working extremely hard and were run off their feet serving in the other rooms.

10.0 / 10.0

Stunning rooms amazing staff

Beautiful

Nothing to dislike

4.0 / 10.0

Wouldn’t stay there again

Location

No beer on tap and breakfast very poor

7.0 / 10.0

Lovely hotel in a wonderful location but needing some guidance to be great.

Loved the views and the quirkiness of the hotel and lodge

It could have been great with just a few little touches.. it felt as though the staff lacked guidance, they were young and doing their very best but no one seemed to be in charge.

10.0 / 10.0

Magical Chateau with wonderful views.

A picturesque destination for a peaceful, magical stay. The chateau is perched by the sea with wonderful views. The staff are outstanding and the food is delicious.

The water takes a long time to come through warm...so you need to be patient.

9.0 / 10.0

Lovely, characterful place in the great part of the world

Lovely building with a cracking location; if you’re lucky enough to stay when the weather is fine there are great views across the water to the mountains. Not far (just about walkable) from the town of Menai Bridge which has some good restaurants.

Breakfast was decent but could be a bit better and I think it could get a bit busy round the toaster when the hotel is full.

6.0 / 10.0

Peaceful

Staff - very attentive especially Erica and Lewis

Evening meal and restaurant - disappointing meal. Overcooked and limited choice. Restaurant very bland and lifeless not what we expected compared to the rest of the beautiful building. Rooms upstairs were very welcoming and stunning views. Maybe need to change location of restaurant to appreciate views more

10.0 / 10.0

Beautiful setting

Beautiful hotel, with so much character. Wonderful views across the straits.

Couldn't fault anything, other than the draught beer being not available.

10.0 / 10.0

Magnificence from a disaster!

We had a disaster at another hotel and ended up here by fluke, best disaster ever! from Clare welcoming us with a lovely log fire, to us upgrading to the beautiful courtyard room in the main house, The Australian/south African bar tender was really great and chatty and my partner had a really good chat with the night porter who was telling him lots about the hotel history. Breakfast was 10/10 and we explored the gardens and the stunning views of the Meani, we will be coming back xx

Loved every minute wish we would have booked here first x

10.0 / 10.0

Beautiful - didn’t want to leave!

Perfect

Nothing

10.0 / 10.0

Romantic Oasis, perfect calm from the storm.

Perfect location, all 8 stages of our Guest Experience met, with exceptional hospitality professionalism from check in, to departure in a snowy morning up the steep drive to the rear of property beside the lodge, there were two female personnel members shivering the snow away from motor wheels and ensuring the drive was salted adequately, cannot thank both of them enough. Hence why we returned for a second stay the following week. Chateau Rhianfa is a very romantic hotel with stunning architecture, beautiful grounds and very comfortable interior. Both of our rooms were very modernised, stylish and very comfortable beds. Perfect infact we give this a perfect five star 10/10 score, best local hotel experience we have had in many years, on par with Bodysgallen Hall & Spa, only more personability and guest care on a down to earth very approachable level. We also loved the Welsh breakfast, especially the flavoursome unique black pudding has to be the best ever tasted. Will most definitely return and highly recommend to all colleagues and friends.

Absolutely nothing, we genuinely love this haven, now a true favourite of ours.

10.0 / 10.0

Absolutely superb

Everything. Superb place superb staff

Nothing. Perfect

10.0 / 10.0

Snowy get away

Everything, excellent venue

There was nothing not to like...

10.0 / 10.0

Just stunning and staff were very friendly and pleasant

Character and stunning surroundings

Nothing

9.0 / 10.0

Staff were so helpful and friendly - the 2 women that shovelled all the snow from the steep road to the lodge went over

Unique setting and architecture- leads to a wonderful experience, like you are sleeping in a castle from a fairy tale

10.0 / 10.0

The perfect treat

Culinary experience in an uniquely fabulous establishment of dramatic settings.

The loud English male voice coming from a group of three women and one male. As my husband's birthday treat arrived, the afternoon tea, the comment of "a heart attack waiting to happen" echoed around the room for all to hear. Incredibly crass I thought! Of course, as this was the behaviour of a male customer it is beyond the establishments means the unpredictable shallowness and ignorance of this man. He absolutely failed to understand the establishments offerings of high quality culinary experiences,

9.0 / 10.0

Great place to stay, the views and character of the hotel exceptional.

Views and location, the style and unique features of the hotel. The staff were excellent.

The evening meal was disappointing, will probably eat out the next time. Breakfast was innovative and really nice.

8.0 / 10.0

Short winter stay in Welsh Castle

Beautiful properly, gardens and setting on Anglesea overlooking the Menai Straits. The room was a good size very clean comfortable and well decorated the turret shower huge. Exploring the building and the rooms was fascinating and you could relax in the huge well furnished rooms (music room etc) The breakfast was fantastic. The waitress at breakfast was very friendly and welcoming.

Dinner prices are quite high so we ate out. Reception only had 1 staff member to check-in who was on the phone for quite a while dealing with a prospective wedding booking (this appears to be priority wedding bookings) this delayed checking in quite a bit. Another younger member of staff was very welcoming and chatted whilst we waited.

10.0 / 10.0

Beautiful location and a comfortable room

The chateau was a stunning location and the staff were excellent

The history and architecture of the chateau, breakfast was lovely

10.0 / 10.0

Wonderful - a true experience, with delightful friendly staff.

Breathtaking location, views, rooms and grounds.

Perhaps a wider menu choice, less formal dining options? Le Dragon Rouge offers excellent food but no alternative such as bar food?

4.0 / 10.0

Very expensive considering the quality

The chateau and grounds are in a great location and incredibly beautiful, it was definitely worth staying to be able to see the chateau and we think it would probably be a fantastic wedding venue. The staff were truly lovely.

I've been unsure whether to leave a review as I have worked in hospitality myself and I know that chefs and hospitality workers work really hard. However, I worked extra shifts at my low paying NHS jobs to be able to afford this trip and it was supposed to be really special for my husband and I, and unfortunately there were a few things that just spoiled the experience. Firstly, the three course meal was bad value for money. At £70pp we expected a lot better. The menu described all these fancy dishes but the food barely tasted of anything, and the duck only came with one miserly piece of potato. We were actually shocked at the quality and wondered what breakfast would taste like. I ordered scrambled eggs with chorizo and weirdly, again, it just didn't taste of much. We even briefly wondered if we had lost our sense of taste but we had snacks in the car that we could taste! The second problem was that we were unable to sleep all night due to noise in the pipes. For a good couple of hours we thought there were fireworks going off in the distance but it turned out to actually be the pipes. We were not in the main chateau but the lodge. In the morning we did tell the lady on reception and she was apologetic and said we could have rung to change rooms, however we were unaware that the front desk was manned 24/7. So what was meant to be a romantic weekend turned into a sleepless disaster.

7.0 / 10.0

Would liked to have had more time at the Rhianfa!

Very beautiful hotel steeped in history. Amazing views across the Menai Straits. Handy location, comfortable room.

Parking was very awkward. Breakfast service was quite late as it didn’t start until 8am so we ended up leaving before we got chance to eat. It would be much better to offer an earlier service from say 6.30am.

9.0 / 10.0

Worked well for us to get ferry in the morning. Quaint property

Easy access to Holyhead ferry in the morning, dinner was good, room with a view was small but pleasant, staff pleasant

All ok, no complaints

9.0 / 10.0

Pleasant

Clean comfy good facilities.

10.0 / 10.0

Great hotel, great staff

Amazing building visually, equalled by the absolutely lovely and accommodating staff (Claire in particular!)

Nothing

8.0 / 10.0

It was very pleasant overall. Several members of staff were outstanding, for us it was Daniel, Lewis & Soniad we thi

The history behind it, the stunning views & the room decor was designed well to suit the style of the chateau.

On arrival, the meet & greet was really poor. We felt unwelcome & dismissed after a 7 hour drive. We arrived at 2pm to be told we couldn’t check in. This was fine but we felt we could have been asked if we would like anything - tea/coffee etc. She just felt cold. I think her name was Clara or Clare. Once it was time to go to the room she was a bit more polite but we felt like maybe she’d reflected on her initial behaviour.

2.0 / 10.0

We wouldn't dream of staying there again!

staff were very good

the room in general, which included it being far too hot due to the array of pipes running around the ceiling. the carpet was soaked, due to a leak from the floor above. a wardrobe with barely any depth to it & no drawers for our clothes! The breakfast was lukewarm & there was no skimmed milk or plain yogurt available.

9.0 / 10.0

Comfortable and characterful hotel

Hotel has loads of character and beautiful grounds down to the river. Comfortable room of decent size. Buffet breakfast was useful for a fast departure for the Irish ferry.

Parking at the front of the hotel is limited and quite tight to get into. It looked as if there might be alternative parking below the hotel.

7.0 / 10.0

Overall a good short break

Lovely historic building overlooking the Menai Straights.The lounge areas were particularly impressive with lots of character. We appreciate the efforts of the owners in trying to preserve the Chateau.

The dining room lacked character and atmosphere. It felt drab. The hotel itself would benefit from a little TLC.

10.0 / 10.0

Great location friendly staff very relaxing

Lovely building staff friendly and helpful found the hotel easily

Lots of stairs difficult with walking stick but mannahed

8.0 / 10.0

Great hotel super food and staff

Beautiful building excellent dinner great breakfast. Staff great and location with fantastic views would recommend.

Housed in annex which was nice but room. small and very little storage, OK for couple of days but over that would have be an issue as not enough clothes storage.

6.0 / 10.0

As above. Was considering it as a wedding venue- not now due to service and standard of evening meL

Great location, rooms lovely

No a la carte menu on Sunday. Few staff on ; not very professionally run. Evening meal very average, just needed more staff and the sort of service you would expect of such a hotel

10.0 / 10.0

The location of this hotel was amazing. To wake up in the morning and have such a beautiful view.

The location was absolutely amazing. We will be looking to return to this gem very soon.

No problems come to mind.

10.0 / 10.0

Very nice and friendly staff

The staff were amazing and the hotel was clean. The room was lovely.

3.0 / 10.0

From what we thought hotel was poor

Breakfast poor standard on cold selection the full Welsh breakfast small only one piece of bacon restaurant no ambienc

Hotel was cold outside gardens and decking and flowers need attention

8.0 / 10.0

Great location with views and great food.

Our room was in the new lodge, small but well equipped with great views from the bedroom of the river. The bathroom was very clean with nice toiletries. We had a lovely meal in the restaurant and the staff were very attentive. Good breakfast. The grounds of the chateau and well maintained.

There are quite a lot of steps to access the lodge, if you park at the top car park by reception. There is a lower car pack with slops leading up to the lodge and chateau.

9.0 / 10.0

Special!

A special place to stay. I especially loved the balconies, gardens and reading nooks!

The only negative aspect of this stay was that the Welsh breakfast was provided buffet style and was too cold.

6.0 / 10.0

Disappointing but charming location and exquisite dining

A beautiful unique and idyllic romantic place to stay full of history. Exceptional food and dining service. A charming chateau full of character and nooks for exploring. Beautiful grounds overlooking the estuary.

The room we stayed in the lodge was not the cleanest - bugs in bathroom and around windows, mirror not clean, would benefit from a makeover. Restaurant is in desperate need of makeover and renovation, and the furniture in the drawing rooms needs updating by new owners. Needs some investment to take hotel forward over next 5 years

10.0 / 10.0

Perfect for our romantic 31 year anniversary get away

Like a movie set with amazing staff and the best restaurant in wales!

Nothing!

8.0 / 10.0

Excellent location and friendly staff. Views to die for.

The location is outstanding

The breakfast was often cold and the lift could be a nuisance

FAQs

Does this property follow enhanced cleaning procedures?

Yes, this country house has implemented enhanced cleaning procedures and processes to keep you healthy and safe.

Is parking included with this country house?

Parking is not specified as an available amenity at Château Rhianfa. For more information, we encourage you to contact the property about where to park.

Is there a pool at this country house?

We didn’t find pool listed as an amenity for this country house. It may be worth double checking if a pool is important for your stay.

Is Château Rhianfa pet friendly?

Unfortunately, this country house is not pet-friendly. Try searching again and filter for "Pets Allowed"

What amenities are available at Château Rhianfa?

We found 26 amenities for this rental. This includes free wifi/internet, free parking, non-smoking, heating, and wheelchair accessible.

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Château Rhianfa

Country House in Wales

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About this country house rental

Amenities at Château Rhianfa

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Nearby attractions

Country House in Wales

Reasons to book

Map of Wales

Nearby attractions

About this country house rental

Amenities

Ratings and reviews

FAQs

Does this property follow enhanced cleaning procedures?

Is parking included with this country house?

Is there a pool at this country house?

Is Château Rhianfa pet friendly?

What amenities are available at Château Rhianfa?

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