Browns Hotel

Renowned as Dylan Thomas favourite watering hole, this high-quality boutique hotel offers an elegant mix of modern comfort, charming touchstones, Welsh excellence and a thoroughly warm welcome. Built in 1752, The Browns' worldwide reputation is founded on the inspirational role it played in the later life of Dylan Thomas. Its 1940s and 1950s heyday was a time when conversation, community, coffee and cake would regularly set the world to rights. To enter Browns Hotel today is to step back into a memorable, simpler, slower time of reassuring certainties. Recently refurbished and lovingly restored, it combines the best of the past with the convenience and comfort of modern facilities - including complimentary Wi-Fi access.

It was at this very bar that the poet, writer and notorious drinker Dylan Thomas spent much of his time. Visitors can stand at the bar where Dylan ordered his Buckley's ale and sit in the airy bay window where he read the daily newspapers, sat to moulder and write at a wrought iron table, played cards and entertained friends. Thoroughly modern, yet favouring a subtle hands off approach to design, the bar is an unpretentious homage to the spirit of a gentler, less complicated era. Offering a selection of light bites and nibbles as well as a tempting range of Welsh ales and Penderyn whisky, it is the perfect place to enjoy a relaxing drink and a memorable conversation with friends old and new. The town of Laugharne features plenty of local restaurants and public houses and the Hotel is more than happy to help guests find a suitable place to enjoy a hearty meal.

For those seeking a retreat from the frantic pace of everyday life, the snug reading room opposite the bar offers comfortable lounge chairs and a lovingly collated library of Dylan-related books.

The Hotel also offers conference facilities for groups of up to 20 people with food and refreshments available. Comfortable, exclusive and within inspirational settings it is perfectly equipped for todays business needs.