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Big pit ex coal mining museum go under ground, free to go in also ironworks and cottages both near each other. Pontypool Park and cafe lovely walk and indoor Market. Abbergevenny a must beautiful scenery and town .

We had very comfortable stay at this hotel. Friendly and secure environment. Great room in very good order. Nice restaurant on 15-20 mins drive. Nice good and fresh breakfast available on good price.

Not much to do in Pontypool other than nice pub and park, but a great base to visit other areas. We went to Newport, Cardiff, Swansea, Abergavenny, Brecon Beacons and even Bath! All within easy travelling distance.

Didn't actually go into Ponty as visiting relatives/kennels down the road in Llanfrechfa. Callum (on Reception) recommended The Open Hearth at Sevastapol for a cheapish dinner which turned out to be an excellent recommendation. Only suggestion if booking hotel would be as this is a Services property, ask for a 2nd Floor room overlooking car park as quieter than overlooking A4042(main road). Otherwise faultless.

Pontypool town was about 15 minutes drive from our cottage, and it's obvious it's fallen on hard times since I lived there. However, it retains enough of it's 19th century grandeur, as the location of Captain Hanbury's country estate, which has now become the magnicient Pontypool Park, with it's vaired landscape, the best rugby pitch in the world, and it's Grotto and Folly, relics of the fascintation with Gothic horrors and romantic castles shared by aristocracy and copied at small scale by the gentry in the 1800's. Also the Park goes on forever, with a lake (it used to be bigger when I was 5 years old), mountains to climb, free-ranging sheep, wonderful views and even an artificial ski hill now. The Park entrance gates (all three) are also worth seeing, as is the Pontypool Museum in the old stables mews building next to Hanbury's house (now St. Alban's Convent School for Girls). The old market is run down and not really a market any more, and the stores of what used to be a busy shopping town for the mining valleys are closed, but it has a combination of melancholy and longing for past glories that is testimony to the the unique character of the Welsh industrial towns and villages that lost their mines and forges.

Pontypool is a lovely little town with lots of places of interest to visit around the area. Pontypool Park is great for a walk and has a play area for young kids. Big pit is just up the road. Also Newport, Cardiff and Abergavenny a short drive away.