The New Inn

I spent a lot of my childhood in Llangynog and have had some great meals at the New Inn over the years. Today, instead of cheese and broccoli pasta bake, we got a few tiny pieces of broccoli and potato in cheese sauce. When I said that there was no pasta in it, I was told that they hadn’t got any!! Whilst we were eventually offered a replacement meal, we did not have the time to wait due to a long journey home. We were offered pudding but only one of us eats sugary deserts. £50 spent and disappointed.

Quiet location, no local shop. Booked due to location inbetween tourist attractions. Staff friendly and helpful. Smoke alarm covered up. Door to bathroom opened inwards so not much room in very small bathroom, hot water tap only trickling, no clothes/ coat hangers. Someone tried handle of door whilst trying to sleep.

Sadly I can’t say much positive. The wifi didn’t work (and there was no phone coverage). Not too much of a problem normally but we needed to drown out the incredibly loud party going on downstairs, including having on the piano… and general screaming! The TV also didn’t work so that was not an option either. Around 40/50 late teens, very drunk, and running up and down the stairs to the accommodation and shouting in the halls. The walls are so thin that we might as well have been in the party. The owner did offer to transfer us to a completely empty building (that was pretty unappealing on walking in) that he told us had no heating on. My daughter was terrified to move over and the rooms were not great, with beds jammed into small rooms (but I guess it was nice to offer to move us). Our room generally was pretty shabby, much like a bunkhouse but twice the price of the bunk houses I’d seen. When we left in the morning I couldn’t find anyone and the pub area was locked with the lights off… when I called to explain where we’d left the key (a fellow guest helped up to find the way out of the building) owner did say he was in the breakfast room, however nobody had mentioned a breakfast room and there was no indication there was one with the fellow guest saying he’d seen the owner leave. We got barely any sleep, had I been alone I’d have asked for my money back and slept in the car! Sorry, wish I could have a nice review.