Cardiff Accommodation

  • Cardiff Castle Cardiff Castle
  • Cardiff's Millennium Stadium, Home of Welsh RugbyCardiff's Millennium Stadium, Home of Welsh Rugby
  • Historic Pierhead Building, Cardiff BayHistoric Pierhead Building, Cardiff Bay
  • Dr Who Exhibition in the Red Dragon Centre, Cardiff BayDr Who Exhibition in the Red Dragon Centre, Cardiff Bay
  • Cardiff's Millennium Stadium by nightCardiff's Millennium Stadium by night

Cardiff Tourist Information

There are two central hubs if you like to Cardiff - central Cardiff revolving around Cardiff Castle, the National Museum & Gallery of Wales, Cardiff University, the Millennium Stadium and superb shopping around the Queens Street area. Move about a mile down Lloyd George Avenue towards the water to find Cardiff's other main hub - the Cardiff Bay area. Historically a thriving and multicultural docklands, the workers lived in the Butetown area in appalling conditions. Today Cardiff Bay has been spruced up into an entertainment hub.

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Cardiff is one of the richest cities in the UK for a choice of museums, internally acclaimed art galleries, a booming harbour area at Cardiff Bay with its new opera house come entertainment venue, plus Cardiff central is a superb location for shopping with everything from recognisable high street shopping, indoor markets and specialist shops. Theatres, cinemas, a dramatic castle and plenty of green space in the centre and along the River Taff which runs through the city all add to Cardiff's edge.

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Park Inn Cardiff City Centre Hotel - Cardiff

Contemporary Cardiff hotel in the city centre, close to Cardiff Castle, Millennium Stadium & Cardiff Bay. En-suite rooms, bar, restaurant, limited parking.

From £95 Per room, per night

Cardiff Bay Attractions

The Cardiff Bay area is fast becoming a hotspot for a variety of arts, entertainment, watersports, deluxe accommodation and more. Run down as recently as the 1980s, through the 1990s this area of Cardiff has seen the regeneration money pour in, transforming it slowly into something very different from it's docklands history. Just over 100 years ago the picture was different - Cardiff's Tiger Bay was a thriving docklands built on the back of coal. The area attracted workers from as far away as Somalia. Explore that history at the Bute Art Gallery & Museum, and be reminded of it by the occasional remaining Victorian building such as the Coal Exchange, the Norwegian Church and the Pierhead Building. Contemporary art, the new mammoth Millenium Centre, the Red Dragon Atlantic Wharf Leisure complex and more muscle for attention. Something for everyone's entertainment down here on Cardiff Bay, including plenty for kids - check out Techniquest and don't forget to look in on the Doctor Who exhibition in the Red Dragon Centre!

The Tube, as the visitor centre on Cardiff Bay is fondly known, is worth a visit for the building itself - shaped like a telescope it's got to be one of the most unusual visitor centres on the planet! For tours of the Welsh Assembly Buildings near the Visitor centre Tel: 029 2089 8200, Y Senned, National Assembly Debating Chamber, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff. CF99 1NA. See also the exhibition on the Welsh Assembly in the Pierhead Building (you won't miss it - the looming waterfront red brick gothic revival building). Check the National Assembly for Wales weblink right for more details. Tours of the debating chambers and Welsh Assembly buildings are offered.

Cardiff Bay Visitor Centre, The Tube, Harbour Drive, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, CF10 4WZ. Tel: 029 20463833.

Cardiff City Centre

What a choice of attractions there is now in Cardiff Central. Here's where all the shopping is done, particularly along Queens Street. Cardiff is a university city with a flair for the arts and for specialist clothing shops and more.

Attractions are all within walking distance from each other in the centre, and include the eccentric gothic revival Cardiff Castle and surrounding grounds, the mammoth Millennium Stadium which is the home of Wales Rugby, Cardiff University, shopping centres and indoor markets galore, easy access to the Taff Cycling trail which runs adjacent to the Taff River and Cardiff's crowning glory - the National Museum & Gallery of Wales which holds some of the most prestigious art in the country including work by Picasso, Van Gogh and Renoir, as well as a large collection of Welsh artists' work and Welsh pottery.

Cardiff Tourist Information Centre, The Old Library, The Hayes, Cardiff, CF10 1AH. Wales. Tel: 029 2087 3573.

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Park Inn Cardiff City Centre Hotel - Cardiff

Contemporary Cardiff hotel in the city centre, close to Cardiff Castle, Millennium Stadium & Cardiff Bay. En-suite rooms, bar, restaurant, limited parking.

From £95 Per room, per night