Event organisers and meeting planners will find no more dramatic and spectacular a destination for conferences, meetings and events than the ancient kingdom and county of Gwynedd.
This historic, almost fairytale region of north-west Wales provides a truly magnificent and magical landscape perfect for teambuilding events and corporate activities.
Boasting imposing mountains, peaceful valleys, rivers, forests and the breathtaking Snowdonia National Park right at its heart alongside a stunning coastline and the Menai Straits, Gwynedd truly is a natural marvel sure to inspire and impress visiting conference delegates. The impressive ever-changing backdrop will only enhance events held in this awesome region.
With towns such as Caernarfon and Porthmadog as well as Bangor, one of Britain’s smallest cities, able to provide a diverse range of conference venues there is no doubt that Gwynedd offers something for everyone. Academic and sporting venues, country house hotels, historic buildings and castles all offer an outstanding selection of conference and banqueting facilities for any corporate or private event.
Meeting planners know the benefits of choosing a county with good transport links. Gwynedd certainly doesn’t disappoint being easy to reach via A roads from the M56, via excellent rail links and flights into either Liverpool or Manchester airports making it a viable meeting destination for both national and international conference delegates.
Taking pride in their reputation for scholastic excellence, academic venues such as Bangor University, The Management Centre and Coleg Harlech provide a good variety of meeting and training rooms as well as lecture halls and conference and banqueting suites, some boasting capacity for up to 600 delegates. Sporting venues include those catering for teambuilding events and corporate activities as well as the more relaxed Bangor St Deiniol Golf Club which is ideal for corporate golf events. Arts and culture venue Y Ganolfan offers multi-purpose conference and exhibition spaces able to accommodate up to 400 delegates whilst Galeri Caernarfon, situated in the Victoria Dock, is also a flexible venue with multiple spaces for conferences, exhibitions, meetings, events and weddings. A truly unique and unusual historic venue is the enchanting Hendre Hall, which caters for intimate board meetings as well as large conferences and corporate events for up to 300 delegates whilst equally impressive is Penrhyn Castle, a historic venue bursting with ‘wow’ factor! The county offers a number of excellent hotels catering for both business and pleasure such as Portmeirion, with its unique location, country house hotel Craig-y-Dderwen, Bontddu Hall Country House Hotel and the idyllic Seiont Manor Hotel, sitting amongst 156 acres of glorious land ideal for teambuilding events, corporate retreats, conferences and weddings. Major hotel groups represented in the county of Gwynedd include Hand Picked Hotels, Legacy Hotels and Resorts, Magnuson Hotels and Regency Hotel Group.