Plas Brondanw Gardens — Attraction in Wales

Upon arrival, a reaaaaally rude lady stared at our little dog and kept staring until I asked what was wrong. Dogs aren’t allowed. She said the gardener had found dog poo in the gardens once. Bizarre attitude and I can’t stress enough how rude she was. We went on a walk while the family looked round the garden. They said it was small and underwhelming and left after 30 minutes. We didn’t realise how unwelcoming and simple the place was until we had paid for parking.

RE owner’s response below: the place was empty when we arrived and funnily enough, we met some fellow visitors in the car park who said they’d only been in for 15 minutes! I think opinions are what this review service is for 😂 Our visit was quite a while ago so I’m not sure how they’re so confident about the way this situation was handled. We also weren’t the only ones who ‘failed to see’ the no dogs signs. It wasn’t really the no dogs thing that made the experience so rubbish, it was the rudeness we all...

A nice little excursion but the weather didn’t do it much justice. Obviously you cannot control the weather, and it was a nice walk through the gardens, even if it was through a downpour.

It costs £5pp for entry, even though you could just simply walk through into the gardens without going to the till to pay, there’s no one manning the door to check if you’ve paid. But we paid, and noticed the gardens were overgrown in places, probably with all the rain we’ve had of late.

You can enter the main house at the back of the gardens where an exhibition was going on. They welcomed visitors with a glass of bubbly, which was really nice.

All in all, the gardens were quite nice, even in the pouring rain. But the weather did spoil the experience, so probably best to visit in nicer weather.

One thing I would recommend is that down the road opposite the car park is a basin filled with water with a statue. I think you could get to the top of the basin but was a bit...

We made this visit purely because of it's connections to being used for filming in the Dr Who episode "the five doctors"

Several scenes were filmed in this magnificent place with connections to the portmeirion estate being the home of the chap whom built portmeirion.

The gardens are lovely and were used for the scene where the first doctor is captured by the time scoop.

Even if you're not a Dr Who fan, this place is well worth a visit as the house and gardens are magical!

Across the road and up a steep hill you reach the plas brondanw tower which was given as a wedding gift.

This tower served as the main backdrop to the scenes in the "the five doctors" as the eye of orion. Again, a very magical place and it's isolation really does give off those 'alien planet vibes'

The creep grotty is a little further down the hill. Check it out!

There are accesible toilets, a lovely house to see...