Windsor Lodge Hotel
Swansea, South Wales

The Windsor Lodge is a small family hotel that is undeniably individual. The building is 200 years old, grade II listed and is a rare gem, being one of the oldest surviving properties in the thriving city of Swansea. Although centrally located, just a minutes stroll from the bustling city centre, the Georgian building has an air of peace and tranquility, an echo of the days when it was a country house, with internal decoration that is perfectly in tune with a building of its age and style.

Swansea (Welsh: Abertawe, "mouth of the Tawe") is a city in Wales and a Welsh County. The city of Swansea is situated on the South Wales coast immediately to the east of the Gower Peninsula and is the second largest city in Wales. It grew to its present importance during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, becoming a centre of heavy industry. However, it did not enjoy the same degree of immigration as Cardiff and the eastern Welsh valleys. The name Swansea is believed to come from "Sweyn's Ey" ("ey" being a Germanic word for "island") and to have originated in the period when the Vikings plundered the south Wales coast. Consequently it is pronounced Swan's-y [ˡswɒnzi]) not Swan-sea.