Castle Hotel
Ruthin, Clwyd

The Castle Hotel, with its fine Georgian facade, commands a prominent place in St. Peters Square. Located in the heart of The Clwydian Mountains, Ruthin provides a gateway to Mid and North Wales. The Castle is ideally situated to take advantage of all this area has to offer and combines high quality accommodation and restaurant facilities with friendly and attentive staff, creating an atmosphere of comfortable ambiance in which to enjoy your surroundings. The hotel consists of 19 en suite bedrooms, all with tea/coffee facilities and satellite TV.

Ruthin is located around a hill in the southern part of the Vale of Clwyd - the older part of the town, the Castle and Saint Peter's Square are located on top of the hill, while many newer parts of the town are on the floodplain of the River Clwyd (which became painfully apparent on several occasions in the late 1990s -- new flood control works costing £3 million were inaugurated in autumn 2003). The name 'Ruthin' comes from 'rudd' or red and 'din', the Welsh word for fort, and refers to the colour of the old red sandstone which forms the geologic basis of the area, and from which the castle was constructed in 1277-1284.