Cardiff & Weston super Mare

[Official Old Man]

Looking up hotels for Cardiff I was offered the Travelodge in Western-super-Mare as it was only 14 miles away and a very good price. Can someone tell me if there is some sort of bridge between the two towns or is the Bristol Channel still in the way?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I think the M4 has some sort of a bridge otherwise the cars get very wet.

 

[skipper734]

 

[BensGrandad]

Looking up hotels for Cardiff I was offered the Travelodge in Western-super-Mare as it was only 14 miles away and a very good price. Can someone tell me if there is some sort of bridge between the two towns or is the Bristol Channel still in the way?

According to Google Maps it is 52 miles between the 2 points by road.

 

[essbee]

The Holiday Inn Express in Newport is a cracking hotel - stayed there twice.

 

[essbee]

and I saw a few other Albion in there last time we were down.

 

[GT49er]

Those hotel sites are notoriously bad for locations. I was looking for a hotel in Polegate (don't ask!) and it came up with one reasonably central (The Horse and Groom perhaps?) and then there was another one 0.7 miles further away - looked promising so I looked in more detail. It was in Alfriston!

 

[Official Old Man]

Travelodge Cardiff Llanedeyrn. Stayed there last weekend. Free parking, pub next door (well a Harvester) and £13 taxi ride from the centre of town. And £144 for 3 nights.

 

[Smiley Miley]

Staying in premier inn Cheltenham, wife and junior off to Brum for clothes show, whilst I slip on the fast train to Cardiff £13 return.

Can't beat a premier inn breakfast...

 

[Driver8]

Looking up hotels for Cardiff I was offered the Travelodge in Western-super-Mare as it was only 14 miles away and a very good price. Can someone tell me if there is some sort of bridge between the two towns or is the Bristol Channel still in the way?

Here is a map. As you can see whilst they are opposite each other it's a long way round. 14 Miles is flying, sailing or swimming.

 

[aberllefenni]

Looking up hotels for Cardiff I was offered the Travelodge in Western-super-Mare as it was only 14 miles away and a very good price. Can someone tell me if there is some sort of bridge between the two towns or is the Bristol Channel still in the way?

Living in Cardiff I get this all the time. If you search for anything within 20 miles radius it will invariably list Weston-super-Mare as an option. Up until a couple of years ago you could travel by paddle steamer, but that was discontinued in 2013.

 

[Dorset Seagull]

The Holiday Inn Express in Newport is a cracking hotel - stayed there twice.

Yes the one on the m4 junction is great. And the Dragonfly pub next door has certainly improved when I was there a couple of weeks ago

 

[essbee]

Yes the one on the m4 junction is great. And the Dragonfly pub next door has certainly improved when I was there a couple of weeks ago

Too right - and there is the Tredegar Arms in Bassaleg within a short distance - next to which is the church where my
relatives are all buried. I'm half-welsh. Nice pub as well.

 

[heathgate]

Living in Cardiff I get this all the time. If you search for anything within 20 miles radius it will invariably list Weston-super-Mare as an option. Up until a couple of years ago you could travel by paddle steamer, but that was discontinued in 2013.

Not been a ferry service in the 25 years I have lived here in North Somerset.... some pleasure trips on the Waverley....but that's it.

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[Cowfold Seagull]

Here is a map. As you can see whilst they are opposite each other it's a long way round. 14 Miles is flying, sailing or swimming.

Motorised surfboard perhaps?

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I like the way this hotel service evidently works. By the same token, if I asked it for a hotel in Dover, presumably it might suggest one in Calais or Boulogne, being only twenty odd miles away.