Snowdon Base Camp Reviews Summary

Location & Views

Pros:

• "Fantastic location and views. We camped next to river, close to shower/toilet block with views of Snowdon."
• "Only around one mile from the beginning of the Rhyd Ddu path, it was in an excellent location in this respect."
• "Beautiful location, has stunning views of Snowdonia and the surrounding mountains; especially Mount Snowdon."
• "Beautiful setting by the lake and Snowdon, which you can walk up straight from the site."
• "The location is nice. Great view of the lake and Snowdon."
• "Stunning location right at the bottom of Snowden and an easy walk in either direction of around 1-1.5k to two climbing paths to the summit."
• "Location: Perfect for walking Snowdon and exploring other parts of Wales. Beautiful scenery and the lake is a huge advantage."

Cons:

• "We came back from a hike at 9PM and we were not able to park the car there."
• "Pub is a scary walk at night along a road."
• "The road in to the campsite a bit dusty as cars go by."
• "There is no control over check in time."
• "Dirty tired facilities and a suspension killing drive and car park/campervan ditch it pitch!"
• "The views are stunning from both fields."
• "The worst place we stayed in Wales, everywhere else was really accommodating and let us stay for on night without a booking, I would never go back."

Facilities & Cleanliness

Pros:

• "Boat hire on Llyn Cwellyn was an added bonus!"
• "Access to laundry room, more than you need when you decide to go camping."
• "Large shower block was clean and tidy, with large communal cloak area, hair dryer (50 pence)."
• "Nice clean showers. Huge trolleys to carry your gear."
• "The site itself is well maintained and clean, with a new shower block with lovely hot showers."
• "There are toilets and showers which were always warm, hot water (which you can control temperature) and clean."
• "The main toilet block is super-clean with outside washing up facilities."

Cons:

• "No recycling area for rubbish. Needs a few more toilets."
• "The toilets & showers are dirty and not cleaned often enough."
• "The toilet/shower block isn't anywhere near big enough for the amount of people camping there on a weekend."
• "Every morning there was a 1-hour queue to access toilets and showers!"
• "The facilities were dirty and wet constantly with not enough toilets to go around."
• "The block was never clean when we went in, often had no toilet rolls or soap to wash you hands."
• "Showers and bathrooms were always dirty with awful odour, and the bins were always overflowing with rubbish scattered everywhere."

Staff & Management

Pros:

• "The owner is very friendly and knowledgeable about the local area and is happy to help you with any queries."
• "The man on his bike is super friendly and helpful."
• "Staff were lovely, man on bike was great, really friendly and funny."
• "Owner very friendly, stopped for a chat every day."
• "The gentleman who owns/runs it is friendly and always stops for a chat when doing his rounds."
• "Graham is a gentleman and the team up at the pub were very helpful, informative and had time to make the stay feel personable."
• "Super friendly staff."

Cons:

• "Also he was very aggressive and throw our fire wood in the lake, because we didn't purchase it from him."
• "Graham was very unprofessional about it and didn't accept responsibility."
• "A grumpy old man on his bike who is probably the rudest person in all of Wales."
• "The worst thing with the site is its organiser who is very rude in their conversation with the visitors."
• "Overall the 3 days of camping trip ruined by the rude owner with his last welcoming sentence being don’t come back! Which we won’t 👍🏻"
• "The man on the bike is unbelievably rude."
• "Operated by a very rude and incompetent staff! The man on the bike has no manner and extremely rude!"

General Experience & Atmosphere

Pros:

• "It’s a dream to 🏕 here, specially if you find a spot at the lake."
• "There is a no music policy which is great with the amount of families on site. Night time is generally quiet."
• "This policy chases away all party animals who make all campsites hell."
• "Really beautiful spot, nestled away, you could easily miss it."
• "The most beautiful, scenic, quiet and grounding place I've camped at."
• "Liked the no music policy as it ensured the site was quiet and relaxed and nobody was stopping us from sleeping soundly."
• "Nestled in the valley and beautiful scenery."

Cons:

• "Didn’t had a goodnight sleep at all during my 3 nights stay because of noise. Some campers stayed up until 2:30 am drinking and laughing."
• "The campsite was overbooked making it challenging to find a parking slot or free space to put your tent."
• "They overbooked the campsite and did not provide a good level of facilities."
• "Was supposed to be a quiet site but the owner lets teenagers check in late and stay up til early hours of the morning."
• "Really noisy, at night is impossible to sleep, we had to leave camping several times to go to camp into the mountains."
• "Doing rounds at 7 am and waking people up is not acceptable."
• "I cannot express how overcrowded it was."