A Hostel A Week – Pen-y-Pass

The hostel was adapted from the celebrated mountaineers’ Gorphwysfa Hotel, often also identified as the Pen-y-Pass Hotel.

Gorphwysfa (Gorffwysfa) is Welsh for resting place (legend describes a cairn, perhaps a burial place, at the summit) while Pen-y-Pass is an anglicised invention suggesting head of the pass.

It lies at the summit of the Llanberis Pass, at 1178ft (360m), with the hostel on the north side of the road and the restaurant and car park on the south side… Read more.