Base for Brecon Beacons?

[clayspaniel]

Where would be a good base to explore the Brecon Beacons / Black Mountains? Thinking of going for 2 or 3 nights.

Lots of ideas here www.breconbeacons.org. Brecon itself is nice as is Hay on Wye or Abergavenny. It depends whether you want to stay in a town or be more rural.

I was there yesterday. Beautiful.

Monmouth is nice!

YY to Monmouth too. Or if you want to come more west I've always fancied Craig Y Nos Castle.

Llansantffraed Court Hotel is a lovely country hotel near Abergavenny. The food is great and it's very handy for exploring the Brecon Beacons.

Crickhowell. Lovely place.

Thanks everyone - very helpful!

We've just come back from house-sitting in Herefordshire and we really enjoyed the area. My husband had a 30 min or so drive to the Brecon Beacons for a day of walking. We stayed in a very pretty old village called Weobley, but we did visit Hay-on-Wye a couple of times and it's a fab place. Thursday is market day and the town is busy and interesting. The book, antique and clothes shops are excellent and the restaurants we ate in were all very nice.

I live just outside the national park...

Merthyr- for budget hotels travel lodge/premier inn

Nant ddu lodge- lovely!

castle hotel in brecon is in a greAt location.

if you want smaller villages, within a short distance of penyfan, try ponsticill, talybont. small, but with 2/3 pubs and not much else.

some more....

nice country house, wedding type venues, out in the country lanes, nothing around them (pricy optionss)
peterstone court near brecon
the manor, crickhowell

or
winchfawr lodge, meryhyr...family stay here when home from oz