R and R means repairs and refurbishments! Many people ask us what we get up to when the hotel closes for January, we don’t just close the doors and fly off to the sun. A lot of work is crammed into the time we are closed as we can access all areas without disturbing guests. [...]

Clearing the road to Gliffaes It is snowing again and three of us spent all morning yesterday clearing snow and scattering salt on the hill that leads up to the hotel from the main road in the vain attempt of keeping the road open for our guests, our staff and our suppliers. Susie and I [...]

One of just sixteen hotels in Wales. Yesterday we got the good news that we had won a ‘Gold Award’ from Visit Wales for 2011. Visit Wales is the  Wales Tourist Board and they are the people who carry out star grading of properties, amongest other things, the biggest of which is marketing Wales as [...]

Two New Hives at Gliffaes I bet that headline got you going, well its true, we have two queens living at Gliffaes now. In the beehives at the bottom of the walled garden. Susie and I started keeping bees some years ago when the man who used to keep several hives here passed on. We [...]