New Hostel for Abergavenny
A new youth hostel has opened in the welsh town of Abergavenny. According to the South Wales Argus it’s the first YHA hostel to open in Gwent. If true, that’s a most surprising fact - given the (former) county encompasses the eastern edge of the Brecons and the lower reaches of the Wye valley. Surely there used to be a hostel in Chepstow?
Maybe they mean it’s the first affiliated hostel, rather than a fully in-house YHA one. The hostel’s been hosting school parties for thirty years under the name of the Mulberry House Environmental Studies Centre. A deal with the YHA has made it available to the rest of us.
First in the county or not, Abergavenny’s a great place for a hostel. Good road and rail links make it relatively easy to get to, and the town is surrounded with mountains and other things to do. The opening of this hostel also goes some way to make up for the closing of nearby (but next county!) Capel-y-Ffin last year.
You can find out more about Abergavenny YH on the YHA’s hostel page or from the Mulberry House website.
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I had no luck booking here. We wanted to book a family room for a weekend in February, a room was showing available on the website however as we wanted to pay with Tesco vouchers I couldn’t do an online booking. An email to the hostel went unanswered so I rang, after once again checking on the website. A lady told me she thought all the rooms were gone but wasn’t sure, she would have to go and check and ring me back. She didn’t.
We have now booked at Crowden.
Comment by John Mann — 2 Feb 2008 @ 8:37 am