Lloyds has been providing hospitality to visitors to Llanidloes for over 130 years. It is located at the "top o' town", as the locals put it. The building is unpretentious, with no claims to architectural fame, yet sits happily alongside the other businesses and homes that make up one of mid-Wales most endearing market towns.
Since acquiring the business in late 1992, we have steadily and entirely transformed the interior, and continue to make improvements as time (mostly in our regular two-month winter closure) and finance permit. Starting with no stars at all under the tourist authority's scheme, we climbed the ranks to achieve three-star hotel status in 2001, and four-star guest accommodation status in 2007.
Recommendations and returning guests are our main source of business. Since 2004 we have belonged to Great Little Places, a collection of small, personally-run hotels and guesthouses in Wales. We have a glowing (unsolicited) reference in the current edition of The Rough Guide to Wales, and in 2011 appeared for the first time in the Good Hotel Guide.
We cannot provide dinner unless it has been pre-booked, and depending on bookings and business commitments, will designate some evenings as bed and breakfast only (see Availability). Our five-course dinner (see Our restaurant) is based on a surprise, no-choice menu, served at a set time (7.30 for 8pm), and is not to be hurried (generally it is well after 11pm before guests retire). There are three and more (depending on the day of the week) alternative eating venues within a short walk.
All bedrooms are non-smoking (as are our public rooms, of course). Bedroom windows have secondary glazing or are double glazed, however being in a town, sometimes noise of vehicles and people can be heard. We do not accept pets (except guide dogs).
If you should ever go to Wales
O'er the hills, or
through the vales
In need of a quiet interlude
With first class wine and
delicious food
Where wondrous stories are always told
Where your every
day care can be put on hold
Where you are met by attentive hosts
Then
really, there is just one choice
And that is Lloyds of Llanidloes
You made us very comfortable and we loved your Fairtrade town.
... although I joke about Llanidloes being 'the ancestral homeland' you guys are so welcoming and create such a warm and cosy base of operations that it does, indeed, feel like coming home. Thanks for that!
