The Britannia Inn is nicely placed in the centre of Crickhowell. It's bunk house has a nice balcony looking out into the hills where you can enjoy breakfast in the sunshine and the staff are pleasant (unless you find yourselves calling them at 8:30 in the morning because you've locked yourself out of your room) In other areas a little bit of TLC was needed
There were three shower cubicles only one of which had a working lock and the toilets seemed to be intermittently serviced for toilet rolls. The biggest problem we found was that the bunk house was above the pub and only had single glazed windows shielding early nighters from the general yamma of the drinkers in the beer garden below which made it difficult to get to sleep until the pub was shut. Even if you're are nowhere near the beer garden and the pub has a DJ in you'll be treated to the chroonings of Lionel Richie or bass from the latest Lady Gaga tune coming up through the floorboards
The bunk house is probably fine if you want to stay somewhere don't have to walk far to after the pub kicks you out but if you're not much for drinking and like relatively early nights you might want to...
Read moreA bit disappointing, I called beforehand to book and check there were vegan options on the menu, they told me there were at least 4 options which they then doubly confirmed for me, this was perfect so we booked. When we arrived it turned out only 1 of the options was actually vegan and also could not have chips as they were done in the fryer with the scampi.. ! Food was pretty standard for £16 per meal for microwave rice and pretty boring chilli & lasagne. They also added the chips to the vegan meal even after much conversing with bar staff about which meals would be vegan suitable and being told the chips WERE NOT 🙈 Super cramped space for a Friday night with people constantly pushing past our table by the bar and to top it off we then left stinking of dirty fryers 🙃 It was a busy Friday night and briefly catching up with family before heading home to Cornwall or we would have found somewhere else if we weren't short on time. But seemed a popular place to drink so must be doing...
Read moreRude staff, I would avoid this place. We were looking forward to a nice meal and a pint after we spent a nice day out at the river. To be unexpectedly told no ID we can’t serve you. I had my ID but my brothers and their girlfriend did not have their ID on them as we were out all day and not planned to go to the pub. We thought of the idea while we were out anyway at the age of 16 or 17 you can have an alcoholic drink a long side a meal and they said no to this. I’m 32 and my brothers and their girlfriend are clearly not under age as they don’t look 17 in anyway! Bad service ! Rude staff ! And they have no idea of the law. And they should know this as they are running a pub with alcohol so I’d advice them to look the law up about having a drink a long side a meal. Very Bad !, anyway on the upside there was an amazing place we found after this and there was no issue at all. , I’d say avoid this place. Find somewhere else! Theirs much better places to eat and drink...
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