Merthyr Tydfil

[Dostoyevsky]

Had a bit of a tough week and looking to go away for the weekend. Been looking around for cheap accomodation and found a hotel in Merthyr Tydfil for £15 a night, more money for  Can anyone reccomend decent things to do around this place, aside from sheepshagging?

[Ardiles]

Please tell me you're joking.  (There's a reason they're charging £15/night.)

[Nemo]

I think your options will be Spoons or masturbation, to be honest.

[4D]

Have you ever been there before?  

Leave the town and head into the Brecons

[Dostoyevsky]

Have you ever been there before? 

Not been to South Wales before but it looks pretty scenic. Just need to get away and money is not something i can lavish around. So long as I get a bed for three nights £15 seemed exceptional value.

[Ardiles]

I think your options will be Spoons or masturbation, to be honest.

Click here for a pic of Wetherspoons.  Looks lovely.

[Dostoyevsky]

Please tell me you're joking.  (There's a reason they're charging £15/night.)

I hadn't heard of Merthyr before or the Beacons, just took a random punt on the place. Need to get out of Calne because it's doing my head in.

[yeo]

there has to be some where better to go that's cheap

[Dozno9]

Merthyr isn't the place to go at all. Having been there quite a lot over the past 11 years with work I would stay somewhere else.

Huge unemployment and high numbers in poverty.

http://www.education.gov.uk/childrenandyoungpeople/strategy/financeandfunding/a0069058/tackling-in-work-poverty-in-wales

[Dostoyevsky]

Click here for a pic of Wetherspoons.  Looks lovely.

The Wethers seems alright from the pic, always decent place to chat to locals if your on your lonesome, but I dont think i'll be venturing into that studio bar opposite with the weed strewn frontage. Background scenery looks stunning. Shame megabus dont go direct but i got a fiver deal to Newport from Swindon which is a bargain

[jayohaitchenn]

Merthyr is quality if you like mountain biking, camping, rock climbing or caving.

[Dostoyevsky]

Merthyr is quality if you like mountain biking, camping, rock climbing or caving.

Cheers Jay, will try and take a wander up one of those hills. I like my boxing too and I understand the place has produced some great pugilists. Shame the place is impoverished but I find people in such places very approachable.

[Reg Smeeton]

I hadn't heard of Merthyr before or the Beacons, just took a random punt on the place. Need to get out of Calne because it's doing my head in.

Think Calne, but much worse...I could imagine someone from Merthyr thinking of going to Calne for the weekend.

Reminds me of last year, around May time, before the riots, meeting 3 very fit sistas from Lewisham, who'd taken advantage of the cheap hotel rates in Swindon, for a weekend away...their stories of what life was like there, meant it was no surprise when it kicked off that summer. They thought Swindon a very nice place....I wouldn't go to Lewisham for the weekend.

PS Did see us beat Merthyr 5-1 in the Cup in 65...Keith East scored 4, fortunately it was at the CG.

[Dostoyevsky]

I was in Portsmouth last week and nowhere can be as downtrodden as that shithole.

[Samdy Gray]

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