Beach holiday in north wales - recommendations?

[Mij]

Anyone got any top tips for good sandy beach locations. Have two DDs, who will be just 6 and 3 by the summer, and will be trying to get a cottage for a week, so looking for somewhere we can spend hours digging sandy holes and wandering around the rocks, but has enough to do elsewhere when we need a change/get blown inland/washed away.

All recommendations gratefully received

Borthy y gest is fab. Little harbour village. you can walk to porthmadog and if feeling energetic from there on to Portmeirion. walk the other way and you come to some fantastic inlet sandy beaches and a few minutes more and you are at Black rock sands. there is loads to do in this part of Wales - castles, shell island, rabbit farm, king arthurs labyrinth, centre for alternative technology, greenwood theme park, mini golf, cadwalladers ice cream i could go on and on. Now that the porthmadog relief road is in it is a lot quieter and hopefully you may pick up a bargain cottage. (did i mention barbecues and picnics on the beach at borth y gest or the little play park there?)

We looked at the Llyn peninsular, looked lovely, nice beaches. Decided on Anglesey on the basis that it will probably rain and it is closer to all the other stuff we want to do......castles, mines, snowdon etc.

I live on Anglesey. I'd recommend - on the west side, lots of sandy beaches, including the heavenly Llanddwyn/Newborough; the fabby sand dunes slightly further up in Aberffraw; surfing in Rhosneigr... There's a big choice of beaches (well, it is an island...). Some great ones on the east coast as well - Benllech is good and accessible. Coastal walks in Moelfre. The lifeboat station there as well. And a great walk down to the lighthouse at South Stack!
Things to do when it rains here as well - indoor play, there's a farm park, the sea zoo. Beaumaris is a bit more chi chi and has a great castle.
Snowdonia is 15 mins away, so you could take a trip up Snowdon too!

So Anglesey is good. Doyouthink it's not that rainy here actually. Seriously! Bangor and Snowdonia is wet, but Anglesey is a bit better. Where are you staying?

Morfa nefyn is beautiful

Staying at Moelfre for a week Princess....can't wait. Last time we stayed near Canaerfon and it rained every day It didn't stop us, we had one of our best holidays ever and can't wait to return. We chose Moelfre because it's right on the seafront and I want to do some running along the Coastal path.

Second week we are staying next to the Llangollen canal.

I am very of you living on Anglesey, must be fabulous. I do love North Wales.

Ooooh thank you thank you guys, that's brilliant. I could stare at a map of Wales for days and still not be any the wiser. Neither DDs are particularly patient travellers so north is best for us these days so north is closest for us, and there's so much choice. We used to go south as a kid and have pottered about Snowdonia quite a bit with DP before kids but never been to the north coast since I filmed there (best place to get a decent sunset over the sea in the UK), and I wasn't interested in holiday activities then, just how to keep sand out of the fecking camera.

I know the PARCIAU cottages on this page & they are lovley. I'm in Snowdonia. They're not near a beach but Dinas Dinlle is about 15 mins drive away.

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This one is really in a lovely spot - very rural!

www.holidaylettings.co.uk/rentals/caernarfon/192909

And this one really does have glorious views!

www.holidaylettings.co.uk/rentals/caernarfon/192908

Hi guys, thanks for more suggestions. Was really hoping for somewhere we could walk to the beach. I know that limits our choice but like to save the car for rainy day trips elsewhere.

Look on the cottages 4 you website, if you follow the link through MN you get 7% discount. Obviously a property near the beach is harder to find but we found a few on Anglesey.

Found a lovely log cabin near Beaumaris on the seafront but no children under 11