Accommodation & Tourist Info
The accommodation at the university is of a very good standard and offers individual rooms for occupancy. The university offers a safe and comfortable environment for teams to enjoy, with both the University and Team Tours Direct doing all we can to ensure your enjoyment throughout the week.
Shuttle Buses
On both days of the event, a shuttle service (coach transfer) is provided for all teams participating in the event. Coach transfers will operate from the University accommodation and the tournament venue.
Once your schedule for the day of play has finished, please notify a member of Team Tours Direct staff and they will organise for a coach to take you back to your accommodation.
The shuttle service will run continuously from 8.45am through to the end of play each day.
A coach drop off and pick up bay is located at the entrance of the tournament venue.
A shuttle bus service will operate for the opening ceremony on Sunday 20th July. Please make yourself aware of the shuttle pick up points on arrival at your accommodation base. A member of Team Tours Direct staff will be happy to assist you with this.
Map
The map above shows key locations around Aberystwyth Town, the scale shows that it is only a short travelling distance between all of these points. It takes only a few minutes to walk to the town from the accommodation and just five minutes by coach to the tournament venue.
Places to Eat and Drink!
Officially known as 'Yr Hen Orsaf', this typical chain pub is more usually known as simply 'Wetherspoons' or 'Spoons'. In general a successful conversion of the huge old station building. As far as the food and drink goes, it's like any other Wetherspoons with a decent menu and good range of low-priced drinks.
This popular modern Bar & Restaurant has a variety of hot and colds snacks as well as meals, from hot melts to Varsity Buckets or Building your own Chip Bowl to upgrading your meal – check out what's on their tasty menu.
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- Little Italy – Long established and cosy little Italian restaurant
- The Mandarin – Popular, established Chinese restaurant
- Olive Branch – Greek-style restaurant and cafe on the seafront
- Sherlock's – Intimate Portuguese restaurant in an out-of-the-way location
- Shilam – Stylish, modern Indian restaurant
- La Taberna – Small, cosy tapas restaurant
- Treehouse – Organic restaurant with good selection of vegetarian and non-vegetarian meals
- Le Vignoble – A smart, new French restaurant from the owners of the Orangery
- McDonalds – Is the world's largest chain of fast food restaurants
- Royal Pizza – Brings you authentic tasting pizzas at incredible prices
As well as being a historic town Aberystwyth is also known as a lively University hotspot. The students affectionately naming the small town Aber. In Aber there are over fifty pubs not to mention the numerous restaurants and takeaways.
Some of the bars you may like to frequent during your time in Aberystwyth include Bar Essential, Bay Hotel, Flannery's, Pier Pressure, and Rummers Wine Bar. Pier Pressure being a twenty-four hour bar, if you didn't guess on the pier!
There are some great places to eat and drink around Aberystwyth. If eating out isn't your thing then why not visit the Commodore Cinema for all the latest movies on the big screen?