Things to Do
Rainy day ideas on Anglesey
Anglesey gets its share of Atlantic rain — but that doesn't mean your trip is over. Aquariums, museums, galleries, and cosy pubs keep things moving.
Family Brynsiencyn, Anglesey
Anglesey Sea Zoo
Britain's largest natural seawater aquarium sits on the shores of the Menai Straits at Brynsiencyn, showcasing the marine life of the surrounding Welsh seas through tanks that hold live lobsters, rays, seahorses, conger eels, and shoals of native fish.
Family Brynsiencyn, Anglesey
Foel Farm Park, Brynsiencyn
A working farm at Brynsiencyn that doubles as Anglesey's finest family attraction, Foel Farm Park lets children feed lambs, meet pigs and ponies, and follow the seasons of a genuine dairy operation with views down to the Menai Straits and Caernarfon Castle across the water.
Family Menai Bridge, Anglesey
Pili Palas Nature World
A tropical butterfly house and nature world near Menai Bridge, Pili Palas (Welsh for 'butterfly') houses free-flying exotic butterflies, parakeets, giant tortoises, and a collection of snakes, lizards, and insects in heated glasshouses that stay open year-round.
Family Beaumaris, Anglesey
Beaumaris Gaol
Built in 1829 to designs by Joseph Hansom — who also invented the Hansom cab — Beaumaris Gaol is one of the best-preserved Victorian prisons in Britain, its original treadwheel, dark punishment cells, condemned cell, and execution room still intact inside the pale limestone walls on Bunkers Hill, a short walk from the castle.
Family Llanddeusant, Anglesey
Melin Llynon Windmill
Melin Llynon at Llanddeusant in northwest Anglesey is the only working windmill in Wales, restored in 1986 from a derelict shell and now grinding flour with its original stone mechanism when the wind allows — producing wholemeal flour for sale on-site at a rate that remains unchanged from its 1776 construction date.
Family Beaumaris, Anglesey
Beaumaris Pier
Beaumaris Pier — a Victorian cast-iron structure extending 147 metres into the Menai Strait from the town's seafront — is one of the gentlest and most rewarding free activities on the island: crabbing from the railings with children, watching seals surface in the channel below, or simply taking in the view across the water to the mountains of Snowdonia with the 13th-century castle framing the left-hand side of the picture.