I’ve found Maes Y Mor in Aberystwyth good too @Irina - no food, but do get use of kitchen (including plates, cups, cutlery, cooking pans and tools, and space to store food). There’s also a laundry on site (pay as use), which can be helpful. Prices are cheaper if you can book direct.
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Thanks this can be useful to me as well, for next time! 
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Gisella,
That was so useful - diolch yn fawr mille!
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This is totally incredible @gisella-albertini and you are an absolute star! Diolch for going to so much effort to put this together - it is invaluable and will definitely be going in this week’s email. 
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O yes brilliant Gisella. I might nick (steal, in a nice way) some of these to put in my Places to Stay thread. If OK with you.
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Sure, this is meant to be helpful and shared.
I don’t even get a percentage on sales! 
However, for accommodation it’s just travel notes I presume handy, not necessarily places with Welsh speaking staff (if it’s unclear from the way I wrote it, let me know and I’ll try to explain better).
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Ah, sorry, Gisella. I just scanned over it during lunch break. I intend to do it justice and read properly tonight. So thank you so much (o galon) 
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Diolch! 
p.s. for the low-budget part, truth is I actually secretly aim at becoming an honorary Cardi. 
(I love the region, and the people I’ve met. Then I’ve been told about the stereotype reputation…which, from my experience, I think it’s totally undeserved! But I had fun joking about it with a few locals and we actually agreed on several points about money spending, so…! 
)
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Yes, you remember corrdctly.
Well, there are some facts which went oposite my way so I couldn’t do much though.
- it was high season so naturally flights are (at least here) more expensive then usually.
- I had only (even less than) a month to plan purchase tickets, make plans etc. etc and on top of that it could all crumble into itself if I wouldn’t get extra money (I’ve waited for that to happen or not to happen to practically the last day of departure).
- FlixBus didn’t drive from our country at the time yet. Now this is much easier for sure. We could go with GoOpti vans to (for example) Venice but summa summarum it might not be that cheaper either.
This is very tempting in deed, but there are no insurances included, right? I love low prices but these cheaper flights don’t include any insurances so if something happens you’re on your own. This is the only thing I don’t want to go with though as our health system is way too complicated (to maybe get money back) even without that. And, of course, if things have insurances included this lifts the prices though. And, if I tell you that apart from EasyJet all other plane companies offered the return tickets form the lowest of 450 €, then this was really a good “bargain”. For the overnight sleep in London I have to say million thousands thansk to @margaretnock and her mom who took me under her roof overnight and to Margaret again who took care for me to come safe and sound to Tresaith and bootcamp.
In Cardiff I’ve stayed one week with one really nice lady for a week through AirBNB.
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Well, Tatjiana, I didn’t mean to criticize your choices or say there was something wrong with it - if that’s the impression I gave you (I hope not, and if so, that wasn’t my intention)
I mean, if I were interested, say, in a Music Festival taking place in August, I’d just get what I can get!
Or quite a lot of other things may get in the way, or each person may have different needs or priorities.
I just meant - for you or any reader who might have tried to plan a trip in the past but didn’t manage to find a solution - that in different years or even different moments of the year, opportunities may be different (like you saw, Flixbus which wasn’t there, as you say, just to name one).
And of course I was tempted to tempt you to go back - I always sympathize with fellow continental European learners.
In any case, I think it’s interesting to compare experiences and there’s always something to learn, so thanks for sharing the background story of your trip to Wales!
This is a very useful resource. I just wanted to add that if anyone was thinking of visiting North or Mid-Wales, Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham airports may have more flights available and provide reasonably easy access via train or bus to the northern parts of Wales.
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Potentially more expensive, but another route to N Wales could be flying to Dublin and then ferry to Holyhead which has trains and buses.
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Sorry I gave that impression. it was just pure feedback of what I could get in the certain circimstances which (my later feelings) maybe ton’t belong here though. You provided pure and superuseful informations here for all to use nad I’ve spoiled that flow. Sorry for that.
Since my life drastically changes in a month or so and my budget with it, too, it probably was one time experience for me which as things look now might never happen again. That’s why I’m even more grateful to all who were there for me in that exciting and yet frustrating time of asking questions, making plans etc.
Diolch.
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Don’t worry, you didn’t spoil anything!
Of course it was a feedback, and another point of view. Sorry about the complications that seem to happen in your life, hopefully it’s going to work out alright. 
I just wanted to make sure my answer didn’t sound judgemental of your choices!
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Well, thank you. It actually is not any complication but rather a pleasant thing but one can not have everything in one’s life, can one? So, despite this should be a fairly new and pleasant experience I’m aware of the consequences of low budget it brings with. So, the only option is (for now) to learn Cymraeg on my own with SSi and get in conversation through Skype at least once a week (what I already am doing now).
I hope you’ll update the post every time you come back from Wales with new or changed things so that this super-useful info will always be as fresh as pure water from the mountains.
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Oh, if it’s a pleasant thing it’s alright - despite bringing a lower budget along (it happens, with some choices, yes!).
Maybe…hills…but I’ll do my best!
Actually contributors, especially for the Gog side which I still haven’t managed to reach for various reasons*, are very much appreciated. Thanks @margarethall and @johnwilliams_6 (by the way I have kept en eye on a few other airports, but not enough I see, and never considered Dublin, so I’ll add it to my options)!
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Really helpful info even for me driving from Oxford. Thank you
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If you fancy walking into Wales from the midlands - then you can walk the heart of Wales trail https://www.heart-of-wales.co.uk/experiences
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Thank you - it sounds like a great trail.
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A few more links about walks - in case someone’s interested and also for me cause I’ll be able to find them easily when I go back to Wales! 
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