Llandovery and the Beacons

Llandovery is the kind of town where everyone says good morning, the bookshop knows what you read last time, and you can walk from the front door to the river in two minutes and to open hill in twenty.

In town: the castle mound and its steel statue, the market square with the clock tower, the Friday market, two good pubs and a restaurant within three minutes' walk, an independent bookshop, the heritage centre and the riverside path along the Towy. The Heart of Wales line stops here between Swansea and Shrewsbury, one of the most beautiful railway journeys in Britain.

Out of town: the Black Mountain, the wildest part of Bannau Brycheiniog, with Llyn y Fan Fach under its red escarpment twenty minutes' drive away; Llyn Brianne reservoir and the Cambrian Mountains to the north; the red kite feeding at Llanddeusant; and the National Botanic Garden of Wales and Carmarthen to the west.

What is included

• Two pubs and a restaurant within three minutes
• The Friday market on the square
• The Heart of Wales railway
• The Black Mountain twenty minutes away
• Llyn Brianne and the Cambrian Mountains
• The riverside path from the door

What it costs

Everything in this page is free to look at. Dafydd's lift to a start point is £15; the folder in each room has the rest. The rooms page has every rate by season and night, and shows which rooms are free on the night you pick.