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Review Day and Short tours to Wales from London.
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Park Inn Cardiff City Centre is located adjacent to Cardiff International Arena and is just minutes walk from the city’s prime shopping districts, and is set right at the heart of the action. The hotel is welcoming, smart, stylish and offers top international amenities. As soon as you enter the impressive Victorian style lobby, you’ll appreciate the original blend of care and imagination that helps to make a stay at this hotel an experience to remember
About Cardiff: Travel to Cardiff railway station and stay for a few days at the nearby Cardiff Park Inn Hotel and explore and discover for your yourself some of it's secrets and beauty. Cardiff is quickly gaining a reputation as one of the coolest cities in the UK - not only is it the Welsh capital but it's also home to Rugby at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff Castle, Cardiff Bay and the National Museum of Wales. Voted Britain's best city for shopping, Cardiff is a treasure trove of small Edwardian and Victorian arcades, picturesque among larger, modern developments, including the spectacular Millennium Stadium. The history of Cardiff stretches back over 2000 years to Roman times when the Romans first established a fortified settlement on the banks of the River Taff. One thousand years later the Normans came to Cardiff. The castle, or keep, which can be seen within the modern walls of Cardiff Castle, originates from this time and William the Conquerer came to Cardiff in 1081. Cardiff remained a small market town for the next few hundred years, but with the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, it would come into its own. The city's greatest period of growth began in the 18th century with the development of the coal and iron industries in the South Wales valleys. In the early 19th century, first a canal and then the Taff Vale Railway linked Cardiff with Merthyr Tydfil and the Rhondda Valleys, at the time the greatest iron and coal centre in the world. Soon, Cardiff would itself achieve worldwide fame as a great coal-exporting ports. The resultant growth in population and the massive coal wealth that was invested in Cardiff helped it win city status in 1905, just as it became the largest coal exporter in the world. As the fortunes of Welsh coal waned in the 20th century, Cardiff transformed itself from a port city into the administrative centre of Wales. Cardiff would become the home of the National Museum of Wales and the Welsh Office. In 1955, it was made Capital of Wales.
This hotel is sometimes used by our walking and cycling tours.
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