Trefeddian Hotel

Firm as a rock do I stand
Surveying both the sea and the land.
I've increased in girth and in height
So now am a monarch of might.
Put all the brochures aside
There's only one place to reside.
Open the door and enter right in
Just cast all your cares in the bin.
Sign the book and pick up the key.
Enter the lift and come up and see
Which room will be yours.
I now have four floors
My staff are all willing and anxious to please
So relax and just feel at your ease
From seven o'clock your dinner awaits
Amazing what comes on the plates
Most of my guests are very old friends
Their love for the place never ends
Coming again and again and again.
So great is my frame
My future's secure for a hundred years or more
So pick up your case and enter the door

E. Benson and K. Manistre

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Trefeddian Hotel Centenary Year

Happy Birthday

Between The Hills and Golden Sands
A Hundred Year Old Gwesty Stands
For Golfers Driving off the Tee
For Children Paddling In the Sea
For Walkers on Their Hill Side Tracks
(With Lots of Rain Water in Their Packs)
For Those Who Think the Seas Too Cool
There's Pleasure in the Heated Pool
Guests Find a Welcome, Feel at Ease
With Friendly Staff Who Seek to Please
Gaze at the Dyfi, Sand and Waves
And Raise Your Glass To the Cave-Browne-Caves

Donald and Iris Harris, Shrewsbury, grateful guests of 20 years.

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Trefeddian Hotel, 1904 - 2004

When Edward o'er an Empire reigned
With Boer War battles lately fought,
When folk with massive fortunes gained
From industry refreshment sought;
Where Meirionydd tranquil lay
And Dyfi's gushing rivers split,
O'er Cardigan's majestic bay
The finest Welsh hotel was built.

Through wars, depressions, storms and strikes
Trefeddian would stand supreme:
Deliveries arrived on bikes
While guests by Cambrian Railway came.
Then, with our Forties' ration book,
For sun and sand we'd scrimp and save,
And so each year in August took
Our hols with Mrs Cave-Browne-Cave.

No lifts or en-suite bathrooms then,
No special off-peak weekend deals;
But morning tea to bedrooms bought,
Shoes cleaned outside our rooms by night:
The very highest standards sought
To each and every guests delight.

And on the pristine putting green,
Beneath the national flags unfurled,
For years we've played our rounds serene
Oblivious of the troubled world,
Or simply on the terrace sat,
With glass in hand or cup of tea,
To gaze in awe and wonder at
The views across the Irish Sea.

Another century now looms,
E'en more Trefeddian excels:
Each year we seem to find new rooms,
And tasty tales each menu tells;
Efficient, ever helpful staff
All understand our needs so well;
The service comes with smile and laugh
And still its Wales's best hotel

Geoffrey Piper, 2003

 

 

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