A true escape! We stayed in this delightful cottage over Christmas and the New Year and despite the usual Welsh winter weather, the cottage was wonderfully warm and cosy and comfortable. Everything we needed for a truly self-catering holiday was available, and the kitchen was like home from home. The beds were great (we tend to struggle with hard beds or poorly supportive soft ones!) as were the couches, making the whole stay relaxing. As for the environment- well, you need to know it’s truly “away from it all”. We loved the quiet! At night the distant sound of the river with its beautiful rapids and waterfalls (which is quite restful - like a quiet white noise) was literally the only thing we could hear and the silence was a huge treat! The owners were fantastic. Generous in their welcome basket and welcoming/helpful but not intrusive in any way. All in all we’d love to return. We stayed with our dog and enjoyed superb walks from the cottage each day without driving out too much. We also bought an EE SIM card for the duration of our stay, and got two bars of 4G if we out the phone in one particular spot in the cottage… so it is possible to get some phone signal, and with EE we had some signal in many places in that valley, but not with O2.

We thoroughly enjoyed our stay at Troedrhiwfawr. The hosts are fantastic people who are extremely generous and welcoming. The cottage itself is lovely, very well equipped and though recently refurbished the cottage still retains its character and charm. The location is serene and picturesque. We enjoyed sitting in the garden looking at the mountains and listening to the stream flowing (which can put you to sleep at night!) only for it to be temporally interrupted by the distant whistle of the steam train which one can get a decent view of when it passes across the valley. The kids went wild swimming (sorry wild paddling as the water was a bit cold for them) every day which is only a few minutes away. A couple walks at your doorstop with one that gets you to Devils Bridge which I thoroughly enjoyed but maybe too much for some as it is steep in some places. Hope to go back in the future!