Located in the heart of the Snowdonia National Park, Y Festri is on the edge of Blaenau Ffestiniog, a small town with a history of slate working. Well known as the terminus of the UK's oldest narrow-guage railway company the Festiniog Railway and a centre for hill-walking, Blaenau Ffestiniog offers the convenience of the market town with the towering presence of the Snowdonia mountains.

Railway travellers arrive about 500 metres from the house in the centre of town. The railway line comes from Llandudno Junction on the main Holyhead to London line. The railway runs through the scenic Conwy valley via Betwys-y-Coed often using historic trains especially operated for visitors. Llandudno junction is just a short ride from Anglesey or the historic town of Chester.

Alternatively railway enthusiasts come on the Ffestiniog Railway from Porthmadog, which is linked in turn to the Mid-Wales line to Shrewsbury and Birmingham.

Y Festri is conveniently located just off the scenic A470 which runs from north to south through rural Wales. Those who come by car join the A470 from the A55 in the North, the A5 in the East, or through central Wales by the A470 itself. It is less than two hours from Liverpoool or Manchester, a little longer from Birmingham. Travellers change down a gear from life in the city and suburbs to the tranquility of North Wales.

There are also bus and coach services to a number of the nearby villages and to the larger towns in North Wales.

Blaenau Ffestiniog is only a small town but it has all the services a holidaymaker needs. Some of its facilities include:

If you don't want to cook at home, Blaenau Ffestiniog offers:

It is only a short drive to one of the best pubs in the area, "The Grapes Hotel" in Maentwrog, recent winner of the 'Freehouse of the Year' award. Incidentally, all the furnishings in this attractive pub came from the old Tabernacl chapel of which Y Festri was part!