Listening to my children this is not a popular firm with youngsters as they tend to be more…read moreexpensive-and to youngsters every penny counts!!! Do notice the logo on cars around town

Decent service with pretty steep prices.read more

This exposed little station in the heart if student-ville is on the main valley line, and is a good…read moreplace to pick up the train to Barry Island for a budget day out in the summer!

For anyone planning to drive into Cardiff centre this is a valuable service to make use of as…read moreCardiff's streets can get so busy at certain times of the day and parking is a huge nightmare. Especially with Cardiff Council's new responsibility to parking fines. Parking in Cardiff can be very costly if you do not adhere to road markings etc and even if you do, the car parks can charge quite a pretty penny depending when and where you are parking. For this reason, why not simply park here and ride the bus. It's only £3.00 to park at this facility which has ample spaces free throughout the day and then you can ride the bus into town for free. It doesn't really take that much longer and there is a bus every 15 minutes so you never have to wait too long before the next bus. The busses are all very new looking and this service is in operation 5 days a week. Monday to Friday the services start at 7:30am and the last services from the city centre is at 7:00pm except for match days when this changes to 5:30pm.

The Angel Hotel is coining it! It must be if it can afford to have seven persons waiting on just…read moreeight people in the restaurant. More about that later. The Angel Hotel is a former Georgian coaching-inn, now rated three AA stars. It has 32 en-suite guest rooms, plus a Lodge at nearby Abergavenny Castle. The restaurant has an AA rosette, with an award-winning wine list. The Foxhunter Bar has an open fire, original wood panelling from the early 1900's, and interesting old paintings of Abergavenny.There's a good range of beers like The Reverend James and London Pride, plus guest beers, and a half-dozen wines by the glass. Special mention must be made of their superb Afternoon Teas, with scones, cakes and pastries, served from 3.00 - 5.30pm, with is proper bone china and linen. For £6.00 you may have tea or coffee with a small selection of cakes, or freshly-baked scones with jam and cream. For £9.80 you get the pastries plus a selection of sandwiches:Black Mountain smoked salmon, Marinated cucumber and cream cheese, Home-cooked ham, and Egg mayonnaise with cress. Weighing in at £14.80 is the Champagne Tea: copious amounts of all the above plus champagne. The Angel has been awarded membership of the prestigious UK Tea Guild and for 2008 an 'Award of Excellence'. The Angel is one of only six hotels outside of London to have achieved this accolade. The Tea Menu runs to about 6 pages and is a really good read, describing with great affection the wide choice of leaf teas available. The hotel claims currently to be refurbishing their bedrooms. If you intend to stay there, make absolutely certain you ask for, and get, a refurbished room, because the older ones are shabby and unkempt. And the restaurant? Some seriously good food, much of it sourced locally. For Lunch expect £20 per head, Dinner double it; plus wine, from an excellent list containing several by the glass and half-a-dozen half-bottles. The room is L-shaped and the staff, whenever I wanted them, always seemed to be 'round the corner' out of view; and I counted SEVEN of them. Perhaps they were expecting a big lunchtime, but it didn't materialise. They reminded me of the proverbial London Buses - you wait for ages and then 2 or 3 came round the corner simultaneously. But no real complaints - better to have than not to have!

My friend and her family go here for afternoon tea and champagne if someone's done well. Very Jilly…read moreCooper i always think. Anyway i'm not a fan, i went with once and thought it was filled with pretentious idiots who talk to loudly, eat too fast and behave like well, idiots. Now, to me, it's as if the Angel is desperately trying to be something it's not, much like Abergavenny itself. I'm told the rooms are lovely but expensive. I'm told the food is lovely, but expensive, I'm told the place is lovely, but...you guessed it, expensive! So, you can imagine my surprise when i found out everything was not lovely but still expensive. Right on the corner of the High Street The Angel isn't even that pretty. I'm aware many people take their vows down here and i had a sneaky peak at the wedding prices and be Jesus! it's probably cheaper and more fun to fly your whole wedding party (vicar and all) to Vegas than it is to get married here. All in all for people who like to think their posh. Not moi!

Usk is a delightful, historic, small country town in the Usk valley, in Monmouthshire, South Wales…read more Whilst it is home to just a couple of thousand souls, Usk has at least 11 licensed houses, that I know of. The King's Head is the pick of the bunch. It is privately owned, and run by friendly and welcoming young staff. Whilst not the smartest or most chic establishment in town, it is certainly the quirkiest, with an astonishing array of artefacts, accumulated down the years, adorning its walls and shelfs. A labyrinth of little bars, it has comfortable sitting-room type furniture and you can relax on a sofa whilst enjoying your drink. It has en-suite rooms, its own car park, and the Chef, Jose Casas, cooks meals that are a lot more than your average pub grub. Local meat and fish feature on his menus, and you need to be very hungry if you order his 'specials'. A former Gwent Pub of the Year winner, The Kings has a choice of real ales, and a very large range of wines and spirits. An excellent spot to stop and slake your thirst (just 1 mile off the M50-A449 route), or to use as a base if touring the area.

Excellent pub and even better food, good value :) entertainment thursday friday saturday and sunday…read moreone of the few places that can actually put entertainment on and fill the place great night out! only five minutes from junction 37

great food great atmosphere here.popular with locals.do a great sunday lunch.always busyread more

Very bright or gay coloured pub situated in the middle of Herbert Street. The pub derives its name…read morefrom all the hanging baskets outside accentuated by the pink frontage of the building. Inside you have a very traditional drinking mans pub complete with ceramic pottery drink tankards hanging up, bar room mirrors and left over Xmas decorations from a few months ago ! The place does boast Sky Sports & has a separate longe and bar area. Drinks can be expensive i.e. a pint of Guinness costs £3.75. No meals are served but bar snacks are available. Staff are very friendly & helpful. Clintele are very sociable too, as underlined by the pub being very busy despite being a small pub in size. Proximity to main shopping centre & nearby to the Arts Centre make it worth a call in.

good food ,live music ,staff realy helpfull and friendly ,busiest pub in ponty .stayed overnight in…read morethe b&b had a great time will go back .

Arthur Conan Doyle's autobiography will be known as "Arth", and I've been asked to write it, so…read moreI've agreed, in principle, to Pen Arth. So people say it's a separate town that's independent and self-sustaining, but honestly it's really just a suburb of Cardiff named Penarth which is only three miles from Cardiff Central station which kind of proves my suburb point. Anyway, it's a cute little station in the middle of the Suburban town and has regular stations going up to Cardiff. One of the problems is that the car park here is for drop off and pick up purposes only. Also the hours for the ticket office are extremely limited, closing at 2 or 3 in the afternoon, worse even at other times, but still. It makes the station pretty tricky to work with, and difficult. I give it the extra star just because it's got some cheap houses here, but it is pretty run down like the other stations.

Penarth Railway Station is, I've always thought, exceptionally small considering the area it's…read morebringing people to. Penarth is hardly a busy and bustling city station, like Cardiff. This railway station has but one platform, and is the end of the line (at least there's never any confusion). Services run to Tredegar and Bargoed only, but all trains pass through Cardiff Central and Cardiff Queen Street. Trains leave every 15 mins during the day, 30 mins at night until 11pm. Can you tell I use this station a lot? Although it is sometimes staffed (weekdays until 2.30pm), most of the time the main building is closed and passengers have to leave and enter the station platforms via a side gate. This station is small, but functional. At least you'll never be stuck waiting there for too long.