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Silver Bay, Rynys Lligwy, will now be known as Woodland Falls Rynys Lligwy. Having taken ownership of the holiday park, formerly known as Rynys, and having spent time really understanding the strengths of the park, we feel that Woodland Falls perfectly summarises the beautiful woodland environment, together with the brook that’s synonymous with the location.
Current owners can expect the same high standards and experience from both Silver Bay and Woodland Falls holiday parks in the future, as they have in the past.
Want to discover more about Woodland Falls? Download our latest brochure by clicking on the image above or by clicking HERE.
Want to get closer to the owner experience? Take a closer look at our Luxury Holiday Lodges and Caravans Interested speaking to one of our helpful team, then Request a Callback today.
Anglesey has plenty of cycling routes to choose from, with a range of coastal, forest and mountain views.
So that you can continue to enjoy the stunning scenery of Anglesey in the winter months, we’ve put together some cycling routes more suited for the wetter weather. That way, when you inevitably get caught in the rain, it won’t ruin your cycle.
Parking / transport – Begins and ends at a car park
For a slightly more challenging route, we suggest this loop taking you around Anglesey past a river, through newborough forest, and along Traeth Llanddwyn beach. With it being easily accessible by car, this is a must try cycling route this winter.
Parking / transport – Begins and ends at a train station
Lastly, for the cycling pros who will go the extra mile for a spectacular view, this ones for you. This cycling loop will take you through some incredible mountain valleys, glacial features, and across the menai suspension bridge.
Here at Bulmer’s Holiday Parks we’re delighted to have completed Phase One of our Luxury Holiday Lodge development at Lligwy.
Lligwy Falls combines the premium, luxury experience of a Bulmer’s holiday home, with picturesque woodland surrounds that unite to offer the perfect Anglesey retreat.
To celebrate, we’re offering a one-off small selection of Show Lodges, with site fees until 2024!
Our latest luxury lodges also offer great value, with licences of 50-years. As well as this, they are Eco Lodges, fitted with quality technology, including solar panels and water heat pumps, to help create a more sustainable holiday park, whilst still offering the high standards you’d expect from our holiday homes. The eco technology also means the cost of power is significantly reduced.
All our luxury lodges are fully furnished and ready for you to move into, bringing further value and ease to the owner experience.
The Lodges
We have a number of wonderful luxury lodges waiting for you at Lligwy. Take a look at some of the options below.
The Oslo
Taking inspiration from contemporary Scandinavian design, the spacious, comfortable Oslo offers a welcoming atmosphere for owners and guests alike.
The bright, brilliantly designed open plan lounge-kitchen-diner space is perfect for hosting family and friends at your lodge, with even more space to escape out through the French doors onto the sizeable decking area.
With three bedrooms (two doubles and a twin), plus two bathrooms (one main and an en suite), the Oslo offers ample room for a family to luxuriate in this holiday home.
This stylish, intelligently designed and fully furnished luxury holiday home combines comfort and modern flourishes to create a superb space.
The large living area includes a kitchen-diner plus a cosy lounge space, perfect for welcoming family and friends. There’s also plenty of room to relax on the decking area, accessible from both the lounge or the side door of the lodge.
With two bedrooms (one double, one twin), this beautiful holiday home offers plenty of space during your many stays with us at Woodland Falls.
The fantastic three bedroom Brampton is another perfect space to escape to with family or friends, with ample space to enjoy the company of those you love the most.
Walking through the door, you’ll find a spacious, open-plan living space. Step inside and be greeted by a thermowood vertical brise-soleil partition and refreshing white gloss kitchen with contrasting dark grey island unit. The lounge and dining area is more than big enough to host your nearest and dearest on your many stays with us.
The contemporary theme runs throughout the spacious eco lodge. The master bedroom features a king-size bed, dressing table and stool, walk-in wardrobe and also an ensuite bathroom. The other two bedrooms include 3ft divan beds. There’s also a family bathroom which includes a bath and shower.
We also have a luxury caravan development at Woodland Falls. These stunning holiday homes, which are fully furnished and ready to move into, offer the comfort, space and practicality to make for the perfect Anglesey retreat for you and your family.
Want to find out more about our luxury caravans? Click here.
What else can you expect from Woodland Falls holiday park?
As well as our luxury holiday homes and tranquil woodland surroundings, there’s plenty more to enjoy. Our park is just a short walk away from the award-winning Lligwy beach, regularly named one of the best beaches in the UK, and voted no.1 by The Sunday Times.
There’s also the Oaklands, our new leisure complex, offering owners another place to relax, socialise and keep fit. Kick back in the lounge bar with a coffee, tea or alcoholic drink, enjoy a game of pool in the games area or get active in the gymnasium and fitness studio.
Our luxury leisure complex and spa on Anglesey provides our members with a sanctuary for relaxation, health, and rejuvenation. With excellent facilities, featuring a fitness suite & studio, beauty therapy rooms plus a 15.5-metre indoor heated pool with poolside sauna suite, jacuzzi and steam room – No matter how you like to unwind, we’ve got it all. Discover everything available by visiting our Spa page HERE
Memberships to our fantastic facilities are £49 per month and include access to all of the above. There’s also a 10% discount available to membership holders on all Spa treatments you wish to indulge in. If you’d like to browse the Spa treatment offerings, you can so by clicking here.
Nestled into the rich woodland of north east Anglesey, Woodland Falls Holiday Park Lligwy offers the perfect tranquil retreat. With the award-winning Lligwy beach just a short walk away, this site has the best of both worlds and the comfort of our Luxury Eco-Friendly Lodges at its heart.
50-Year Licence
One of the greatest benefits to owning one of our Luxury Eco-Friendly Lodges at Lligwy is the longevity of the licence. Unlike most other holiday parks, we offer a a 50 year licence on all new lodge plots. This gives you both greater value for money in the time you have ownership of your property, and also affords you a greater sell-on value compared, should you wish to sell your holiday home at a later date.
Eco-Friendly and Sustainable
We’re proud to lead the way in offering a more sustainable holiday home experience with our Luxury Eco-Friendly Lodges. Among some of the first in the UK, our lodges offer a more sustainable way of living, with solar panels and water pump technology; whilst not scrimping on the luxurious comfort you’d expect from the Bulmer’s Holiday Park experience. In the current financial climate, our eco-friendly technology provides a more sustainable running cost for our holiday homes.
Our aims go beyond the lodge offering, with targets of reducing our carbon footprint by 50% by 2030. Learn more about our sustainability goals and projects.
Our Eco-Friendly Lodges come fitted with solar panels
Fully Furnished Holiday Homes
Another benefit to our Luxury Eco-Friendly Lodges is that they are furnished and ready for you to move into. Our contemporary furnishings offer you the perfect home away from home, without the hassle from the moment you sign on a property.
An example of the open plan, fully furnished lounge-diner-kitchen space in one of our Eco-Friendly Lodges.
Woodland Falls Facilities
There’s plenty more to Woodland Falls Holiday Park Lligwy than just our Luxury Eco-Friendly Lodges. Our site has a fantastic new Leisure facility for residents to enjoy during their stays. Why not grab a coffee or alcoholic beverage with friends or family at The Oaklands, play a game of pool in the games room or get active in the gymnasium or fitness studio?
Our wonderful island of Anglesey is bursting with exciting experiences for visitors and owners at our parks. With over 130km of coastline, the water around the island has long been the playground of North Walians. And no area more so than the Menai Strait. The 16-mile stretch of water separating Anglesey from the mainland is brimming with exciting excursions and lined with beautiful places to visit.
So, to help you try something new and thrilling next time you stay with us, we’ve put together a number of recommendations along the Strait.
By Sea
One of the best ways to experience the Strait is by boat, with lots of trips available. RibRide is one such provider, offering speedy trips along the Strait, showing you all the sights, including the bridges, directed by knowledgeable guides.
Phil Scott owner of RibRide on their service: “We’ve been operating for 16 years and the experience has never become any less exciting. Due to the unique landscape, the history, stunning wildlife and having one of the highest tidal ranges in Britain, the experience is slightly different every year.
“Customers regularly feedback a number of things once their ride has finished; usually expressing their love of the wildlife on show, their excitement of the RibRide experience and their fascination with the stories and history we offer on the region and the two bridges during the trip.” If you’re interested in their experiences, click HERE.
For those of you who like to get in the water, you may be interested in Plas Menai – The National Outdoor Centre. Situated on the mainland shore, close to Caernarfon, the amazing activity hub offers a huge range of experiences to get involved in. From Kayaking to paddle boarding, windsurfing to sailing and much more. Learn more HERE. Note – The centre is currently closed for a major refurbishment until April, but activities can be pre-book for its reopening.
If you’d like to enjoy the Strait at a more gentle pace, then there’s plenty of other boat trip options, such as Seacoast Safaris. Setting sail from Beaumaris, on Anglesey’s south eastern point, this brilliant boat trip explores the wildlife of the region.
As well as taking in the beauty of the Menai Strait, you can experience grey seals, the Puffins of Puffin Island, dolphins and plenty more. Full details can be found HERE.
Puffins off the coast of Anglesey
By Land
If you wish to experience the region without climbing aboard any boats, there’s plenty to do along the coast. Beaumaris itself is a beautiful town, featuring both a castle and a historic prison, Beaumaris Gaol. If you’re looking for more history but somewhere slightly bigger to explore, then there’s the cathedral city of Bangor on the mainland coast too.
Further west along the Strait there’s the stunning National Trust site of Plas Newydd House & Gardens as well as the Anglesey Sea Zoo. All in all, the Menai Strait offers more brilliant experiences for all the family to enjoy than you can shake a stick at.
So, next time you visit us at either of our sites, remember that the travel time to the Strait and it’s crossings is just a 30 minute drive from Rhoscolyn and a little over 20 minutes from Lligwy.
Keen on learning more about our holiday parks on Anglesey? Click HERE for more info on Rhoscolyn and HERE for more on Lligwy.
Fancy learning more about the history of the Menai Strait? Check out our blog HERE.
What makes Anglesey an island is the Menai Strait. The narrow, 24 kilometre stretch of water separates it from mainland Wales and to many, when spotted, provides the first pang of excitement on the approach to the beautiful island.
However, historically it was seen as more of a logistical inconvenience, one that was eventually overcome, to link the riches of Anglesey and beyond to the mainland more substantially.
Stories of disastrous ferry crossings and even herding livestock across the Strait during low tides finally came to an end in the early 1800s.
Menai Bridge
Completed in 1826, the bridge was designed by famed civil engineer of the day, Thomas Telford. Telford was tasked with finding a way of shortening the travel time between London and Holyhead, for those travelling back and forth from Dublin With Ireland having recently become part of the British Empire (1800), travel and trade had increased.
The Menai Strait proved the biggest hurdle, with only ferry travel available at the time. This was more difficult than the short distance seemed, with the challenge of two different tidal currents and four tidal shifts per day. Telford concluded that a bridge linking Anglesey to the Welsh mainland was the best way forward. His design would become the world’s first major suspension bridge and reduced the London to Holyhead (A5) travel time nine hours, from its then 36 hours, yes 36!
Still in use today, the structure is grade 1 listed and stands opposite the only other crossing to Anglesey, Britannia Bridge (Pont Britannia).
Menai Bridge at night
Britannia Bridge
Completed in 1850 and designed by railway pioneer Robert Stephenson, it was created to connect Anglesey to the mainland rail network to further improve travel to Holyhead. With railways advancing the way we travelled in the Victorian era, further connecting Holyhead London was vital.
The original bridge remained in place until the 1970s, when a fire all but destroyed the original. Years of rebuilding led first to it’s reopening (1972) and then to an upgrade, with a second deck. Opening in 1980, the upper deck was created to accommodate car traffic, with rail traffic running underneath, as it does today.
Both stand as important historical developments, not just because of their ingenuity, but also because of the role they took, and continue to take in linking Anglesey to the Welsh mainland.
The Britannia Bridge
So, next time you visit us at either of our sites, remember that the travel time to the Strait and it’s crossings is just a 30 minute drive from Rhoscolyn and a little over 20 minutes from Lligwy.
If you’d like to learn more about the Menai Strait, or experience it for yourself next time you visit Bulmer’s Holiday Parks, check out our Activities on the Menai Strait blog!
Keen on learning more about our holiday parks on Anglesey? Click HERE for more info on Rhoscolyn and HERE for more on Lligwy.
In the surroundings of beautiful woodland and just a short walk from the famous Lligwy beach, our luxury caravan development is the perfect holiday escape in North Wales.
Brook Views Development
The luxury caravans we have available in our Brook Views development make for the ideal Anglesey retreat. Available fully furnished and with a spacious decking area, you can sit back and relax, surrounded by the tranquil woodland location whilst also in the luxurious solace of one of our holiday homes.
Containing all the modern comforts you hope and expect of a luxury caravan, those available in Brook Views make for the perfect home-from-home whenever you fancy escaping to Anglesey.
Whether you’re looking for something more contemporary or traditional in style, we offer both. There are also two or three bed options available depending on which size fits your needs.
Take a look at the gallery below to get a better picture of what you can expect from one of our luxury caravans at Lligwy.
There’s more to offer than just the great location at our Woodland Falls Lligwy holiday park though. Recently we were pleased to unveil Woodland Falls new leisure complex!
The Oakland’s, at the heart of the site, offers residents a great place to enjoy the company of friends and family with a coffee, tea or even an alcoholic beverage of two if you prefer!
There’s also a games room, gymnasium and fitness studio, giving you plenty of options for activities during each of your breaks.
Just beyond the woodland surrounds of our Lligwy holiday park is the award-winning Lligwy beach! A short walk will bring you to this stunning location. Learn more about Lligwy beach by clicking here.
The award-winning Lligwy Beach is just a short walk away.
Spooky season is upon us! Thankfully, there are plenty of events and activities taking place on Anglesey and nearby to let you celebrate in style. If you’re looking for something to do with the children, or want to experience some more hardcore scares, there’s something for everyone in this list.
Pumpkin Picking at Hooton’s Homegrown
A great way to get little ones involved in Halloween is to go pumpkin picking! Lots of farm shops are now offering the chance to pick your own pumpkins in time for Halloween decorating! Hooton’s Homegrown farm shop on Anglesey, already well known for its produce, is a great place to give it a go.
From Silver Bay Holiday Park, Rhoscolyn: 23 miles, 35 mins approx.
From Woodland Falls Holiday Park, Lligwy: 16 miles, 26 mins approx.
Another great opportunity for families is the Beaumaris Castle Halloween trail. Put on your creepiest costume and head on down to the 13th century castle for a clue based trail leading around the grounds. The castle is certainly more than just a Halloween venue, making it worth the entry fee for a day of exploring this Autumn.
From Silver Bay Holiday Park, Rhoscolyn: 27 miles, 45 mins approx.
From Woodland Falls Holiday Park, Lligwy: 13 miles, 25 mins approx.
A trip inland from Anglesey will bring you to the woodland theme park at Betws-y-Coed, which between 22nd-31st October adds a spooky angle to proceedings. An evening pass gives you access to the transformed Ffear Forest, which includes a ‘Cursed Coaster’ ride, a spooky netted jungle inhabited by clowns, a ‘Screamride’ and more.
From Silver Bay Holiday Park, Rhoscolyn: 45 miles, 1hr, 10mins approx.
From Woodland Falls Holiday Park, Lligwy: 38 miles, 1 hr approx.
Certainly one not for the faint of heart, this midnight ghost hunt is very much for the Halloween die-hards. The exclusive tour, which must be booked in advance, takes you around Beaumaris Gaol, a Victorian era decommissioned prison on Anglesey. This is a serious spooktacular, complete with Ouija boards, EMF meters and more. If you fancy a daytime visit, the Gaol also operates as a museum. More info here.
From Silver Bay Holiday Park, Rhoscolyn: 27 miles, 45 mins approx.
From Woodland Falls Holiday Park, Lligwy: 13 miles, 23 mins approx.
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