Address
Phone
Website
Royal Goat Hotel, Beddgelert, Gwynedd LL55 4YE
01766 890224
The hotel has 33 en-suite bedrooms, two residents’ lounges, a public bar and two restaurants.
Brief history
The Royal Goat Hotel was originally built as the Beddgelert Hotel in 1802 by Thomas Jones, whose wife had inherited the Beddgelert estate. It was conceived specifically to cater for the increasing numbers of tourists visiting Snowdon. The first tenant manager, David Pritchard promoted the story of Gelert, the loyal hound mistakenly slain by his master and created a monument known as Gelert’s Grave in a nearby field in an attempt to further boost tourism.
The hotel became the Royal & Goat Hotel in the 1870s to commemorate a visit by Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught. Other famous guests who have stayed at the hotel include Casablanca star Ingrid Bergman (while filming The Inn of the Sixth Happiness).
Owners:
1851 Goat Hotel
1865
1878
1909
1939
1990
1998 Nov 25
2001 – 2016
2016 –
Innkeeper Judith Pritchard
David Pritchard
Richard Humphrey
J. P. Pulhan
Hotel Proprietor Winifred M Adams | Hotel Manager Humphrey William Griffiths
Evan and Irenie Roberts
Grade II Listed Building
Ben and Vicky Doodson
David and Michelle Cattrall, directors of Parkfield Snowdonia, who also operate the recently refurbished Saracen’s Head
Also see:
1944: For Sale: The Royal Goat Hotel
1865: Brynfelin and Rhyd Ddu Copper Mines
