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 Llandudno, Image © Wales Tourist Board
Llandudno is part of a tradition of great British, ‘beside the seaside’ resorts that succeeds where many fail in retaining some of its Victorian atmosphere.
 Llandudno town
The town grew from the Victorian seaside tourist tradition, apparently from an idea of its town fathers drawn up in a leaky beach hut in a heavy downpour, ironically enough! A broad promenade was created, tall sea facing stucco Victorian terraces were built and a grand pier was constructed and the tourists came in their droves and still do in the summer time.
Unlike many other British resorts Llandudno hasn’t been degraded by over commercialism and decay. Its seafront entertainments evoke the golden age of beside the seaside holidays, Punch and Judy and donkey rides on the beach rather than the ugly arcades and burger bars and its mainly older clientele maintain a more genteel atmosphere.
Llandudno is situated on a small peninsula beside the dramatic rocky headland of the Great Orme 207 metres tall. This limestone landmark was the site for Bronze Age copper mines dating back to 600 BC, now a visitor attraction and the Great Orme Country Park is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, with a multitude of bird life and wild flowers, rewarding hardy walkers with spectacular panoramas from the Orme’s summit.
 Great Orme Headland
It was a favoured summer destination of the Liddell family in the Victorian era, the young Alice Liddell being the subject of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. However tenuous the connection there is an impressive statue of the White Rabbit on the West Shore.
With over 400 hotels and guesthouses, more than any other town in Wales , Llandudno is a town built entirely for that strange quirk of the British at leisure, that ‘we do like to be beside the
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