The Oakeley Arms Hotel

3.5 star property

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Exterior detail
Bed sheets
Shower, free toiletries, towels
Property entrance
Bed sheets

Reviews

9.0 out of 10
Wonderful

Popular amenities

  • Bar
  • Parking included
  • Free WiFi
  • Restaurant
  • Business services

Explore the area

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Tan Y Bwlch, Maentwrog, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales, LL41 3YU
  • Eryri National Park
    ‪6 min drive‬
  • Zip World Llechwedd
    ‪11 min drive‬
  • Llechwedd Slate Caverns
    ‪11 min drive‬

Room options

Family Room

9.6 out of 10
Exceptional
(4 reviews)
  • Sleeps 4
  • 2 Twin Beds and 1 Double Bed

Single Room

8.6 out of 10
Excellent
(14 reviews)
  • Sleeps 1
  • 1 Twin Bed

Twin Room

8.6 out of 10
Excellent
(4 reviews)
  • Sleeps 2
  • 2 Twin Beds

Superior King Room

  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

Deluxe Double Room

9.4 out of 10
Exceptional
(6 reviews)
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

Double Room

9.6 out of 10
Exceptional
(4 reviews)
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed

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About the area

Maentwrog

With a stay at The Oakeley Arms Hotel in Blaenau Ffestiniog, you'll be within a 5-minute drive of Eryri National Park and Ceunant Llennyrch National Nature Reserve. .This hotel is 15.3 mi (24.6 km) from Yr Wyddfa and 3.2 mi (5.1 km) from Cae Bryn Coed.

What's nearby

  • Eryri National Park - 6 min drive - 7.3 km
  • Zip World Llechwedd - 11 min drive - 13.1 km
  • Llechwedd Slate Caverns - 11 min drive - 13.4 km
  • Portmeirion Central Piazza - 13 min drive - 11.3 km
  • Portmeirion Sands - 13 min drive - 11.3 km

Getting around

  • Penrhyndeudraeth Station - 5 min drive
  • John Lennon Airport (LPL) - 128 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪Lakeside cafe - ‬6 min drive
  • ‪On The Lake Cafe - ‬5 min drive
  • ‪DeNiros Cafe Blaenau Ffestiniog - ‬8 min drive
  • ‪Red Chillies - ‬8 min drive
  • ‪Castell Deudraeth - ‬11 min drive

About this property

The Oakeley Arms Hotel

Hotel in Blaenau Ffestiniog with a restaurant and a bar
The Oakeley Arms Hotel offers 14 accommodations with complimentary toiletries. Flat-screen televisions are featured in guestrooms. Bathrooms include showers.
Stay in one of 14 guestrooms featuring flat-screen televisions. Bathrooms have showers and complimentary toiletries.
Take in the views from a garden and make use of amenities such as complimentary wireless internet access.
At The Oakeley Arms Hotel, enjoy a satisfying meal at the restaurant. Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at the bar/lounge. Cooked-to-order breakfasts are served on weekends from 8:30 AM to 10:30 AM for a fee.
Free self parking is available onsite.
Cooked-to-order breakfasts are available for a surcharge between 8:30 AM and 10:30 AM on weekends.
The Oakeley Arms Hotel has a restaurant on site.

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and transport

  • Free self parking on site

Food and drink

  • Weekend cooked-to-order breakfast available 8:30 AM to 10:30 AM for a fee: GBP 12 for adults and GBP 8 for children
  • A bar/lounge
  • A restaurant

Guest services

  • No housekeeping service

Business services

  • Meeting rooms

Outdoors

  • Garden

Accessibility

  • No lift

More

  • Smoke-free property

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Bedsheets provided

Bathroom

  • Free toiletries
  • Private bathroom
  • Shower
  • Towels provided

Entertainment

  • Flat-screen TV

Food and drink

  • Electric kettle

More

  • Heating

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 2 PM; Check-in end time: 10 PM
Contactless check-in available
Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before 10:30 AM
Contactless check-out available

Special check-in instructions

There is no front desk at this property
The host will greet guests on arrival
This property doesn't offer after-hours check-in

Access methods

Host will greet you

Pets

Pets not allowed

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome
Rollaway/extra beds are not available
Cribs (infant beds) are not available

Payment types

Important information

Optional extras

  • Fee for cooked-to-order breakfast: approximately GBP 12 for adults and GBP 8 for children

The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards, debit cards, and cash
Cashless transactions are available

We should mention

This property does not have elevators

Property is also known as

Oakeley Arms Hotel Blaenau Ffestiniog
Oakeley Arms Hotel
Oakeley Arms Blaenau Ffestiniog
Oakeley Arms
The Oakeley Arms Hotel Hotel
The Oakeley Arms Hotel Blaenau Ffestiniog
The Oakeley Arms Hotel Hotel Blaenau Ffestiniog

The Oakeley Arms Hotel Reviews

Reviews

9.0

Wonderful

Rating 10 - Excellent. 192 out of 336 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 104 out of 336 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 27 out of 336 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 11 out of 336 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 2 out of 336 reviews

9.0/10

Cleanliness

9.2/10

Staff & service

8.4/10

Amenities

8.4/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.0/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

4/10 Poor

Heidi

Stayed 1 night in May 2025

10/10 Excellent

Sophie

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely single room it was spotlessly clean and tidy
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2025

10/10 Excellent

Julie

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed one night. Room very clean and comfortable. Had brought wrong plug for mobile phone staff searched for one and loaned it to me which was a great relief as have elderly mum I needed to check on. Breakfast lovely too
Stayed 1 night in May 2025

10/10 Excellent

simon

Friendly staff and good service, they opened the kitchen for me after it was closed. Good value
Stayed 1 night in May 2025

8/10 Good

DIANE

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good central position for exploring whole of Snowdonia. Extra parking at rear of property. Room spacious and immaculately clean. Unusual and attractive room decor. Personal dislikes were basin in living area instead of bathroom, macerator toilet and lumpy duvet.
Stayed 4 nights in May 2025

10/10 Excellent

Jayne

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Value for Money

Great location great hotel value for money.
Stayed 2 nights in May 2025

8/10 Good

Matthew

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in May 2025

8/10 Good

Teresa

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Nice Historic place

No suitcase stands. Good location, and quiet.
Stayed 1 night in May 2025

10/10 Excellent

Ian

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Lovely welcome and atmosphere. Small public pay and display car park opposite. Good access to shopping and restaurants. Lovely breakfast
Stayed 2 nights in May 2025

6/10 Okay

Lesley

Stayed 1 night in May 2025

10/10 Excellent

Clara

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Amazing
Stayed 1 night in May 2025

8/10 Good

David

Stayed 1 night in May 2025

6/10 Okay

Neil

Liked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Not bad hotel but could improve

We stayed in the room at the front of the hotel which is south facing so gets the sun most of the day, the problem is the 2 bedroom windows don’t open as the sack windows have been painted together, the bathroom window opened but it’s not enough to cool the room down. Had a couple of issues with the bathroom but they were sorted quickly but the shower was a bit of a hit and miss going hot and cold. Food was good with good size portions but they did forget to put the cheese on the house burger and the coleslaw off another meal we had. Staff were very friendly and helpful and the breakfast was good except they didn’t have any cornflakes, had ever other cereal, I did ask but said they didn’t have any.
Stayed 3 nights in May 2025

10/10 Excellent

John

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in May 2025

8/10 Good

Jason

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Was a great location, between two different places of hiking over a two day period.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2025

10/10 Excellent

Akhil

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2025

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Disliked: Staff & service

You get what you pay for.

Stayed for two nights. Room was ok but tired. Food in the evenings was fairly good. Breakfast (eggs Benedict) was really awful and the service was diabolical. Service in the evenings wasnt good either. Don't think that staff training is probably anything that has been heard of here. Having said all that and giving credit where it's due, the evening food wasnt bad, the room was clean and all in all the stay was not expensive so as always I guess you get what you pay for. Didn't have breakfast on the second day as couldnt risk facing the same food or service again.
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2025

8/10 Good

sharon

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Good hotel in an easily accessible location

I've stayed at the hotel previously, it's ideally situated and the staff are very accommodating. The room is comfortable and I would stay again. The only negative point was breakfast, this was the first time I'd had breakfast here and the service was very slow. I arrived at the restaurant at 8:35am, at 9:27am I was still waiting for my food. This was not ideal, given I was meant to leave at 9:30am. If breakfast starts at 8:30am, then all food should be ready to serve from that time.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2025

6/10 Okay

David H

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Disliked: Staff & service

Beautiful hotel but sadly let's itself down

Beautiful hotel, the room was all to an exceptional standard. Sadly the service and food let it down. We were a group of 10. Most of the evening meals were good but the steak, which 2 of the party ordered was so tough it was a challenge to eat. When this was pointed out the waitress was not impressed. After that we were being rushed to finish. In the morning we arrived at 8.30 for breakfast, the waitress in the morning was far more friendly, however, we waited over an hour for the food. The food was clearly locally sourced, sadly the bacon was over cooked and again a challenge to eat. The continental breakfast was not restocked and the orange juice and bread ran out.We heard other guests complaining as well about the breakfast arrangement. One had paid but mislaid the token and another just got fed up of waiting and left. So dissapointing that this Beautiful place let's itself down.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2025

8/10 Good

Wiktor

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2025

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2025

8/10 Good

Marie

Stayed 1 night in Mar 2025

10/10 Excellent

Richard

Liked: Cleanliness
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2025

10/10 Excellent

Robert

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 4 nights in Mar 2025

10/10 Excellent

Peter

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Great location

I arrived early but was able to access my room straight away. I was initially told that my room still had to be paid for but I had prepaid. This was resolved quickly however. The hotel is conveniently located on a regular bus route and I took the opportunity to visit Blaenau Ffestiniog 20 minutes away. The evening meal was excellent with plenty of choice on the menu. My room was fine and extremely comfortable. Some slight traffic noise as it was at the front of the property.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2025