Snowdon Friscan Inn

The biggest dump I have ever seen
My boyfriend and I decided to go to Snowdon for a couple of days last weekend but we didn’t want to spend too much (big mistake). I came across this place on the internet and judging by the website www.thesnowdoninn.co.uk/index.html I thought this could be the place for us (another big mistake). “Cheap and Cheerful” -- more like cheap and nasty! "What we offer is simple, clean and probably what you’d expect as a rufty tufty outdoorsy type. But you also get a warm welcome, a great location, fantastic view, and a great pub on tap.” What a joke! Simple yes, clean defiantly not! Rufty tufty is putting it mildly -- The door of the caravan was practically hanging off and the pub itself was like an old mans social club with sticky carpets, peeling paint and a really bad smell! The view they speak of is about a mile down the road -- the actual view from the pub is of a main road and a grubby field. I had already paid a deposit of £40 which covered half the total cost of the weekend (four nights). We arrived, looked at the caravan, popped into the pub, stared at each other in disbelief, and made a quick exit! In fact you might even be able to see the skid marks on the driveway still! We went to Caernarfon library and managed to find a youth hotel in Bangor -- Thank god!! I may have lost my £40 deposit but I would have paid an additional £100 not to stay in that hole! Later on I thought about why would anyone stay there at all, then it dawned on me, what an easy way to make a bit of cash -- Get people to pay a deposit, when they turn up and they’re gobsmacked at the state of the place they leg it ASAP! £40 easily made. Great scam! All I can say is please don’t stay there! It’s an awful place and I wouldn’t have been surprised if we’d ended up being sacrificed in some weird local ritual -- It was rather creepy!