Activities and Attractions

 

Annual Events,  Activities and Attractions

Annual Events

Wassail and Marie Llywd Chepstow

Chepstow Annual Walking Festival

The Winter’s End Progressive Rock Festival

Wye Valley River Festival

Monmouthshire Food Festival

Hay Festival (books and literature)

VW Vehicle Show at Caldicot Castle

Green Gathering Festival Chepstow Racecourse

Green Man Festival: Brecon Beacons

Chepstow Castle: Events through the summer

Castell Roc: The friendly music festival within Chepstow Castle

Abergavenny Food Festival

Devauden Music Festival

Chepstow (Local Arts) Festival

Cheltenham Festival

Welsh Grand National

Activities

National Diving School:  It also has a Wire Zip Slide,  Giant 3G swing,  Drive in Cinema, Fly Boards, SUP paddle boards, Kayaking, Bungee Jump and Live Music (10 minutes away off the A48)

Monmouth Canoe (30 minutes drive),  Canoe the Wye and Wye Canoes are both based at Symonds Yat West (45 minutes) and Hay on Wye (1 hour).

Kayaking, Gorge Walking plus Canoeing & SUP hire Coleford (28 minutes drive) 

Chepstow Racecourse Racing and Events (10 minutes drive)

Severnvale Equestrian Centre (12 minutes on A48)

The David Broome Event Centre (8 Minutes drive)

Puzzle Tree Alpacas (43 Minutes drive)

Cardiff International White Water Centre  Activities include Canoeing, Kayaking, Air Trail, Bike Hire, Climbing Wall, Rafting, Indoor Wave bodyboarding  and Stand Up Paddle Boarding (50 mins to 1 hr drive)

The Royal Mint Experience  One of the top-rated tourist attractions in South Wales.  You will be able to see special coins and rare historical memorabilia and strike your own coin (extra charge).

Golf courses

St Pierre (2 courses, 4 minutes drive),

Celtic Manor (previously hosted Ryder Cup 15 minutes drive),

Rolls of Monmouth (45 mins drive).

Gardens

The Japanese Garden at Moynes Court, located outside of The Welsh Gatehouse

Wye Valley Sculpture Garden, Tintern

Veddw Garden, Devauden

High Glanau Gardens, Monmouth

Dyffryn Gardens, Vale of Glamorgan

The National Botanic Garden of Wales

Llanover Gardens

Fishing

Fishing on the Wye and the Usk

MATHERN MILL FISHERY is within a few hundred yards: open every day 8am – dusk.  Guests have to bring their own equipment ie rods etc. Contact: 07801 513943, Permit: From Fishery

Gyms 

Delta by Marriott – St Pierre

Celtic Manor

The Hub – Chepstow

Chepstow Leisure Centre

Caldicot Leisure Centre 

Cycling

We are part of Sustrans route 4 cycle route:  https://www.sustrans.org.uk/ncn/map/route/route-4

Also we are very close to routes 32 and 41

National Route 4 – Bristol to Chepstow
National Route 4 climbs out of Bristol via Clifton Down, Westbury-on-Trym and Aust. A highlight of this section is crossing the River Severn high on the Severn Road Bridge. Bristol to Fishguard also forms part of EuroVelo 1.

National Route 4 – Chepstow to Swansea
In Wales, National Route 4 forms the main option of the Celtic Trail East cycle route passing through Newport, Caerphilly, Pontypridd and Port Talbot, on the way to Swansea.  Large parts of the Celtic Trail East are traffic-free.

Theatres

The Drill Hall, Chepstow

The Savoy Theatre, Monmouth

The Blake Theatre, Monmouth

The Borough Theatre, Abergavenny

The Riverfront Theatre & Arts Centre, Newport

The Dolman Theatre, Newport

New Theatre, Cardiff

Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff

Bristol Hippodrome, Bristol 

Bristol Beacon, Bristol

Cinemas

Cineworld, Spytty Park, Newport

Vue Cinema, Cwmbran

ODEON Cinema, Cardiff

ODEON Cinema, Bristol