A Warm Family Home With Cardiff Minutes Away
There are not many places to stay in Wales where you can step off a train and be through the front door inside a couple of minutes. Dingle Road station sits about 50 yards from Weaver's House B and B, near the top of Windsor Road, and the house is a big white Victorian villa whose bay windows are already glowing by the time an evening train pulls in. Toni and Lewis live here and run the place themselves, and the welcome is the thing guests write about before anything else.
Pick it for a friendly, genuinely cheap base with the railway at the end of the path and central Cardiff a short direct ride away. Skip it if you need your own bathroom, a cooked breakfast, or a room reached without steep stairs, because this is a lived-in family house rather than a hotel.
Three things make it work. The position is the headline: trains from the end of the road reach Cardiff Central in well under a quarter of an hour, and a bus stop stands directly outside on Windsor Road, so you can do the city by day and the seafront by evening without moving the car once. The house then gives you more space than the money suggests, with a 240 square foot triple at the top of the range, garden views from every bedroom, and a shared kitchen, dining room, patio and sun terrace you are free to use as you please. And the hosts do the rest: bags taken early, an earlier arrival arranged when a room is free, the sort of unhurried help that turns a cheap night into a good one. Weaver's House works well for solo travellers, couples and small families who want a warm, low-cost base for Cardiff and the Vale coast, and who would rather deal with real people than a reception desk.
What the Bedrooms Are Actually Like
The bedrooms are plain and generous with colour. Beds are dressed in deep crimson or in a red and cream elephant print, the headboards and bedside tables are pale birch, and the bigger front rooms carry a soft rose-and-script wallpaper that catches the light from the bays. Every room has a flat-screen television, heating, a fan, linen and towels, a socket beside the bed and a window looking over the garden. Nothing here is styled for a magazine. Everything is clean, comfortable and squarely aimed at people who would rather spend their money outside the house than inside it, and the beds themselves draw more praise than anything except the hosts.
Size is the real decision. The Triple Room with Shared Bathroom is the one to hold out for at 240 square feet, roomy enough for three, with extra-long beds over two metres, a dining table, a wardrobe and access to the patio. The two singles are far smaller, 75 and 65 square feet, and the budget one sits under the eaves with a roof window in the slope of the ceiling rather than a wall window. Bathrooms are shared across the house, with a bath or shower, towels, free toiletries and a hairdryer, and two further toilets tucked away for busy mornings. You will climb stairs to most of the bedrooms, and three flights to reach the very top of the house.
Breakfast, the Garden and How the House Works
The heart of this place is the long kitchen and dining room, a stripped-floor space with a pine table, an old cast-iron hearth and a door out to the patio. Breakfast is yours to make: bread, cereals and fruit are set out for guests to help themselves, at whatever hour suits you, with nobody hovering. It is honest rather than lavish, and what appears does vary, so if a cooked plate matters to you the cafes of Penarth town centre are a few minutes up the road and the Busy Teapot is about four minutes away.
Outside there is a garden with seating, a sun terrace and a patio, and every bedroom looks onto it. Inside, you come and go as you like: there is no lock-out during the day and no rule about clearing your room. Quiet hours run from 22:00 to 08:00, which suits a residential street like this one. Bring cash as well as a card, because plenty of guests have settled up that way, and tell Toni your arrival time when you book, since check-in runs from 16:00 to 22:00 and there is no desk to walk up to.
Why Book Weaver's House B and B?
This one suits travellers who care more about being 50 yards from a train than about having a reception desk, and who like the idea of a real Penarth home with hosts who are actually in it.
The station is at the end of the path
Dingle Road station is about 50 yards from the front door, with up to four trains an hour on weekday daytimes and Cardiff Central well under a quarter of an hour down the line.
Hosts who live on site
Toni and Lewis run the house themselves and are the part of a stay here that guests mention first, from early bag drops to arrival times arranged around your train.
Room to spread out, and a garden
The 240 square foot triple has extra-long beds, a dining table and patio access, and every bedroom looks onto the garden, the sun terrace and the outdoor seating.
Free street parking and free WiFi
WiFi runs through the whole house at no charge, and the surrounding streets take free public parking with no reservation needed, which is rare this close to Cardiff.
Check Availability at Weaver's House B and B
Interesting Points About Weaver's House B and B
- Dingle Road station is about 50 yards from the front door. It is an unstaffed single-platform halt that opened in 1904, and on weekday daytimes it takes up to four trains an hour into central Cardiff, which is why guests keep saying they never needed a car.
- Toni and Lewis live in the house and run it themselves. The change of ownership was announced on the property's own Facebook page on 3 August 2023, and replies to guest questions are still signed by Toni.
- Penarth is in the Vale of Glamorgan, not in Cardiff. Travel listings file the house under Cardiff because that is the nearest city and the old postal county, but the CF64 postcode and the post town are Penarth, roughly three miles to the south.
- Shared here does not mean one bathroom for eight rooms. Alongside the main shared bathroom there are two further toilets in the house, which the host confirmed directly when a family asked what the arrangement actually meant.
- Penarth Pier Pavilion, a fifteen to twenty minute downhill walk, opened in May 1929 as a concrete Art Deco hall with a balcony and seating for around 600. It now holds a cinema, a gallery and a cafe out over the Bristol Channel, and the pier beneath it dates from 1894.
Rooms & Accommodation at Weaver's House B and B
Triple Room with Shared Bathroom
Up to 3 guests · Shared bathroom · 22 m² (240 ft²)
This is the room families and groups of three should hold out for. At 240 square feet it is more than three times the size of the singles, the beds run over two metres so tall guests are not folded up, and it comes with its own dining table, a wardrobe and a door out to the patio and garden. Carpeted, heated, hypoallergenic bedding, a fan for warm nights and a flat-screen TV. The bathroom is shared like every other room in the house, with two further toilets on hand when the main one is busy.
Check Prices
Standard Single Room with Shared Bathroom
1 guest · Shared bathroom · 7 m² (75 ft²)
The right call for a solo traveller who is out all day and only needs somewhere quiet and clean to land. It is a proper single at 75 square feet, small but not airless, with a bed against the wall, an armchair by the net-curtained window, a flat-screen TV, heating, a fan and ironing facilities. Bring a book rather than a suitcase you need to unpack fully. The bathroom is shared, and there are two more toilets in the house for the morning rush.
Check Prices
Budget Single Room
1 guest · Shared bathroom · 6 m² (65 ft²)
The cheapest way into the house, and the one that asks most of your legs. This 65 square foot attic single sits at the top of three flights, under a sloping ceiling with a velux roof window that has no blackout blind, so summer mornings arrive early. In return you get a comfortable bed, a flat-screen TV, heating, a fan, an iron and a genuinely quiet corner of the building. Pack light, take the stairs slowly, and it works perfectly well for a solo traveller stopping one night before an early train.
Check PricesAmenities and Facilities
In Your Room
- Flat-screen TV in every bedroom
- Free WiFi throughout the house
- Heating and a fan
- Linen, towels and hypoallergenic bedding
- Socket beside the bed
- Carpeted floors
- Iron, with full ironing facilities in the larger rooms
- Garden view from every bedroom
- Wardrobe or closet in the Triple Room
- Not available: En-suite bathroom
- Not available: Balcony
- Not available: Kettle or tea and coffee tray in the room
Bathrooms
- Shared bathroom with a bath or shower
- Two further toilets elsewhere in the house
- Free toiletries and toilet paper
- Towels provided
- Hairdryer
- Not available: Private bathroom in any room
Around the House
- Shared kitchen open to guests
- Long dining room with a pine table
- Garden with outdoor seating
- Sun terrace and patio
- Bicycle storage
- Darts
- Golf course within 3 km
- Luggage drop-off when the room is not ready
- Not available: Lift
- Not available: Restaurant or bar on site
- Not available: Swimming pool
- Not available: Spa or wellness centre
Food and Drink
- Self-service continental breakfast provisions: bread, cereals and fruit
- Shared kitchen and dining room for guests to use
- Keyif, a Turkish and Mediterranean restaurant, about 500 yards away on Glebe Street
- The Busy Teapot cafe roughly four minutes on foot
- Not available: Cooked breakfast
- Not available: Room service
- Not available: Set breakfast service times
Getting Around
- Dingle Road station about 50 yards away
- Bus stop directly outside on Windsor Road
- Penarth station about 900 yards, roughly a six-minute walk
- Free public parking on the surrounding streets, no reservation needed
- Cardiff Airport about 9 miles
- Not available: Reserved on-site car park
- Not available: Airport shuttle
- Not available: Step-free access to the bedrooms
Policies
- Children of any age welcome
- Cot for children up to one year on request, £5 per child, per night
- Guests aged 18 and over charged as adults
- A parent or legal guardian must handle arrival for under-18s
- Quiet hours 22:00 to 08:00
- Cash and bankcard accepted
- Not available: Extra beds
- Not available: Pets
- Not available: Smoking
- Not available: Parties, hen and stag groups
Penarth, and the Train Into Cardiff
Windsor Road runs along the spine of Penarth, and Dingle Road station is the first thing on it, which is the whole reason to stay at this end of town. Penarth is a Victorian seaside town in the Vale of Glamorgan, about three miles south of Cardiff, and the two work together beautifully: a quieter, prettier, cheaper base on one side of a twelve-minute train ride, and the capital on the other. The Victorians marketed the place as the Garden by the Sea and filled it with holidaymakers off the trains from the Midlands, and the shape of that town is still here in the arcades, the clifftop gardens and the pier.
Walk downhill and in fifteen to twenty minutes you reach the Esplanade, the shingle-and-sand beach and Penarth Pier, with the Art Deco Pavilion sitting out over the Bristol Channel and Flat Holm and Steep Holm visible on a clear day. Turn the other way and the town centre is a few minutes away: independent shops, the covered Windsor Arcade, and a food scene that punches above a town this size. Keyif on Glebe Street, about 500 yards from the door, does Turkish and Mediterranean cooking and is the table locals book for a proper dinner. The Albion is a few minutes' walk for a pint afterwards, and the Busy Teapot is about four minutes away for a coffee before the train.
For Cardiff, the trains do the work. Dingle Road takes up to four services an hour into Cardiff Central on weekday daytimes, putting the Principality Stadium, the castle and the museum inside a half-hour door to door, and Cardiff Bay with the Wales Millennium Centre and the Senedd is under two kilometres away. A bus stop stands directly outside on Windsor Road, served by the Cardiff Bus routes that link Penarth with the city and Barry. Driving is the only fiddly part. There is no car park here, spaces on Windsor Road itself are few and cannot be reserved, and on-street restrictions apply across parts of Penarth, so read the signs before you walk away from the car.
- Dingle Road station: About 50 yards. An unstaffed single-platform halt on the Penarth line, up to four trains an hour into Cardiff on weekday daytimes.
- Windsor Road bus stop: Directly outside the door. Cardiff Bus routes link Penarth with the city centre and Barry.
- Keyif: About 500 yards, a few minutes' walk. Turkish and Mediterranean grills on Glebe Street, the table locals book for a proper sit-down dinner.
- The Albion: A few minutes' walk. A traditional town pub for a pint after the seafront walk.
- Windsor Arcade and the town centre: A few minutes' walk. Independent shops and cafes around a covered Victorian-style arcade.
- Belle Vue Park: About 900 yards. The nearest green space, with a bandstand and mature planting above the town.
- Penarth Pier and Pavilion: A 15 to 20 minute downhill walk. An Art Deco pavilion of 1929 holding a cinema, gallery and cafe out over the water.
- Penarth Esplanade and beach: Beside the pier. Shingle and sand with clear-day views out to the Flat Holm and Steep Holm islands.
- Alexandra Park: A short walk. Penarth's first public park, opened in 1902, with topiary and a clifftop cenotaph looking out to sea.
- Cardiff Bay and Mermaid Quay: About 1.9 km. Waterfront restaurants beside the Wales Millennium Centre and the Senedd.
- Cosmeston Lakes Country Park: South of town toward Sully. Over 100 hectares of nature reserve with a free recreated medieval village set in the year 1350.
- Cardiff Castle: About 6 km. A Norman keep wrapped in lavish Victorian Gothic interiors.
Getting to Key Locations
Photo: Stephen McKay, CC BY-SA 2.0
Dingle Road Station
A single unstaffed platform opened in 1904, tucked into a cutting at the end of Windsor Road and close enough that the walk from carriage to front door is measured in yards. Up to four trains an hour run into Cardiff Central on weekday daytimes, which is why guests here rarely bother with a car.
View on Map
Photo: Ben Salter, CC BY 2.0
Penarth Pier and Pavilion
The pier dates from 1894 and the white Art Deco Pavilion at its landward end opened in May 1929, seating around 600 under a balcony. It now runs a cinema, a gallery and a cafe out over the Bristol Channel. Fifteen to twenty minutes downhill from the house, and the best reason to walk rather than take the train.
View on Map
Photo: Dominic Nelson, CC BY-SA 4.0
Cosmeston Lakes Country Park
Over a hundred hectares of lakes, meadow and woodland south of the town, opened to the public in 1978 and a Local Nature Reserve since 2013. The free medieval village inside it is reconstructed as it would have stood in 1350 and has doubled as a filming location for Doctor Who, Merlin and Galavant.
View on Map
Photo: Dominic Nelson, CC BY-SA 4.0
Cardiff Bay
Under two kilometres north, and the reason a lot of guests pick Penarth in the first place. Mermaid Quay puts waterfront restaurants beside the Wales Millennium Centre and the Senedd, and the barrage walk back to Penarth marina is one of the best short walks in south Wales.
View on MapHow to Get to Weaver's House B and B
- Take the Penarth line from Cardiff Central: Trains for Dingle Road leave Cardiff Central through the day and take roughly eight to twelve minutes. On weekday daytimes there are up to four an hour.
- Get off at Dingle Road: Dingle Road is a single unstaffed platform. Come up onto Windsor Road and the house is about 50 yards along, roughly a minute on foot.
- Coming from Cardiff Airport: Take the rail link from Rhoose Cardiff International Airport into Cardiff Central and change onto the Penarth line, or ride the T9 Airport Express coach into the city and change there. A taxi straight to Penarth is quicker if you land late.
- Driving from the M4: Leave the M4 at Junction 33 and follow the A4232 toward Cardiff Bay and Penarth, then the signs into town and onto Windsor Road. Park on the street and read the signs before you leave the car, as restrictions apply in parts of Penarth.
- Tell the hosts when you will arrive: Check-in runs from 16:00 to 22:00 and nobody sits at a reception desk, so send your arrival time when you book. If the room is not ready they will usually take your bags in the meantime.
Penarth for First-Time Visitors
Penarth is the seaside town Cardiff keeps quiet about. It sits on the headland where the Ely and the Taff meet the Severn Estuary, and the Victorians who built it sold it nationally as the Garden by the Sea. What survives is a genteel grid of villas and terraces climbing away from a pier, with clifftop gardens, an Esplanade, and a town centre of independent shops and cafes around Windsor Road and Glebe Street.
The seafront is the day out. Penarth Pier runs out into the Bristol Channel with the Art Deco Pavilion at its head, the beach below is shingle and sand, and on a clear day you can pick out Flat Holm and Steep Holm from the promenade. Alexandra Park, opened in 1902, gives you topiary and a clifftop cenotaph. South of town, Cosmeston Lakes Country Park adds lakes, meadows and a free medieval village rebuilt as it stood in 1350.
Two practical notes for planning. Late spring to early autumn is the season for the seafront, the Pier Pavilion's programme and the Penarth Chamber Music Festival, which ran from Thursday 25 to Sunday 28 June in 2026 across the Pavilion, All Saints Church, Turner House and the Windsor Gardens bandstand. And Cardiff event weekends, rugby and football in particular, empty the rooms in Penarth as fast as they empty the city, so book well ahead if your dates fall on one.
A Walk Around Penarth
A walking tour of four parts of the town, taking in the Pier Pavilion, Alexandra Gardens, the Penarth estates and Cosmeston Lake.
Is Weaver's House B and B worth it?
Yes, if what you want is a cheap, friendly base with a railway platform 50 yards away and a direct train into Cardiff. The hosts are the strongest part of the stay, the beds draw consistent praise, and the shared kitchen, dining room and garden are genuinely useful. Say no if you need a private bathroom, a cooked breakfast or step-free access, because bathrooms are shared, breakfast is help-yourself and some rooms are three flights up.
What Guests Say About Weaver's House B and B
Scores and review counts are aggregated from verified guest bookings on major travel platforms.
Very Good
Two things come up in almost every review: the hosts and the position. Guests describe Toni and Lewis as warm, quick to help and happy to take bags early, and they keep pointing out how little walking it takes to reach either the platform or the bus stop. Beds get praised often, and so does the value for what you pay. The recurring caveats are honest ones. The stairs to the top rooms are steep, the single rooms are genuinely small, breakfast is a help-yourself arrangement that some guests found bare on the day, and the shared parts of a lived-in family house are not always as tidy as a hotel corridor.
A lovely stay, in her summary: the house was spotless and the host could not have been kinder.
Janaya
A lovely stay, in her summary: the house was spotless and the host could not have been kinder.
2026-06-24Called it excellent value and said the hosts could not have done more for him. He would book the place again without hesitating.
2026-03-30Wanted other travellers to understand that this is a private home with the owners living in it, not a hotel, and said she was made to feel genuinely welcome. It suited her perfectly for one night close to Cardiff Bay.
2026-03-02Praised a really comfortable bed, a big television in the bedroom and the bus stop just outside. He found the climb up to the room punishingly steep, and on his visit there was nothing laid out to eat and nothing to make a hot drink with.
2026-04-26Summed it up as a fine place to crash: fair value and staff he had no complaints about. His only gripe was that the room felt cramped.
2026-06-27A couple's trip that came in well under budget. She found the house clean and the welcome friendly, and rated the bus connections highly.
2026-02-21A lovely welcome that made him feel at home, and a strong base for reaching the centre of Cardiff. He would like blackout blinds fitted to the roof windows and thinks the house could do with a tidy.
2026-04-17Liked the size of his room, the position, a comfy bed, a good shower, the kitchen diner and the handful of spaces to leave a car right outside. He thought it dear for what it was, and said the downstairs toilet by the kitchen badly needed cleaning.
2026-04-14Messages were answered well and an early arrival was accommodated on the day. His one suggestion was to have somebody around at breakfast time, since a few guests seemed unsure where to find things.
2026-06-30Good to Know Before You Book
The hosts are on site, so tell them your train
Toni and Lewis live in the house, which is why the welcome scores so well, but it also means there is no reception desk to walk up to. Check-in runs from 16:00 to 22:00 and they ask for your arrival time when you book. An earlier arrival can often be arranged if the room is free, and they will usually take your bags if it is not.
Bathrooms are shared, and there are spares
None of the eight bedrooms is en-suite. The main shared bathroom has a bath or shower, towels, free toiletries and a hairdryer, and there are two further toilets elsewhere in the house so the morning rush is manageable. One guest did report the downstairs toilet needing attention, so it is fair to say tidiness varies.
Breakfast is help-yourself, not cooked
Bread, cereals and fruit are put out in the shared kitchen for guests to make their own, at whatever hour suits, and there is no set service time or member of staff on hand. What appears has varied, and at least one guest arrived to find very little laid out. If a cooked breakfast matters, the cafes of the town centre are a few minutes up the road.
Some rooms are up steep stairs
The staircase is the original one and it is steep, with three flights to the very top of the house. There is no lift and no ground-floor guest room, so this is not a stay for anyone who struggles with steps. The attic rooms have velux windows in the sloping ceiling with no blackout blinds, which matters in June.
Parking is free on the street, not reserved
Public parking around the house is free and needs no reservation, but the handful of spaces directly outside on Windsor Road cannot be held for you, so later arrivals sometimes end up a short walk away. Restrictions apply on some Penarth streets, so read the signs. Most guests find the train easier than driving into the city.
Bring cash, and check your rate terms
The house rules list bankcard and cash, but the payment summary on the listing says cash only and several guests describe settling up that way, so arrive with notes as well as a card. Cancellation and prepayment conditions vary with the room and rate you choose, and the exact terms are shown for confirmation before you book.
Photos of Weaver's House B and B
Frequently Asked Questions
Dingle Road railway station is about 50 yards from the front door on Windsor Road. The house is in Penarth, a Victorian seaside town in the Vale of Glamorgan roughly three miles south of Cardiff. Trains from Dingle Road reach Cardiff Central in well under a quarter of an hour, and a bus stop stands directly outside. Penarth station is a second option about 900 yards away.
Check-in runs from 16:00 to 22:00, and check-out is from 07:00 until 11:00. The hosts live on site rather than staffing a desk, so they ask you to tell them your arrival time when you book. An earlier arrival can often be arranged if the room happens to be free, and if it is not they will usually take your bags in the meantime.
Breakfast is self-service and continental: bread, cereals and fruit that guests help themselves to in the shared kitchen. There is no cooked breakfast, no published service time and nobody waiting in the dining room, so treat it as provisions rather than a meal. Provision has varied, and one guest arrived to find very little out. The town centre cafes are a few minutes up the road if you want a full plate.
Public parking around the house is free and needs no reservation. The handful of spaces directly outside on Windsor Road cannot be reserved, though, so a later arrival can mean walking a street or two. Read the signs before you leave the car, because on-street restrictions apply in parts of Penarth. Most guests find the train into Cardiff easier than driving.
Every bedroom shares a bathroom and none of them is en-suite. The main shared bathroom has a bath or shower, a toilet, towels, free toiletries, a hairdryer and toilet paper, and there are two further toilets elsewhere in the house for when it is busy. If a private bathroom is essential to you, this is not the right stay.
Pets are not accepted at this property. The whole house is non-smoking, parties and events are not allowed, and hen, stag and similar groups will not be accommodated. Quiet hours run from 22:00 to 08:00, which suits the residential street the house sits on.
Children of any age are welcome, and the Triple Room is the one that works for a family. Guests aged 18 and over are charged as adults, and younger guests can only be booked in when an accompanying parent or legal guardian handles the arrival. A cot for a child up to one year old can be requested at £5 per child, per night, subject to availability. There are no extra beds, so a family of four will not fit in one room.
From Cardiff Central, take a Penarth-line train to Dingle Road and walk out onto Windsor Road, roughly eight to twelve minutes on the train and a minute on foot. From the airport, catch the rail link at Rhoose Cardiff International Airport into Cardiff Central and change, or take the T9 Airport Express coach into the city and change there. A taxi direct is faster if you land late.
The stairs are steep and there is no lift, with three flights up to the top rooms. No accessible or ground-floor guest room is documented, so the house does not suit anyone who finds steps difficult. The attic bedrooms have velux windows in the sloping ceiling and no blackout blinds, which is a real consideration for light sleepers in summer.
Bring cash as well as a card. The house rules list both bankcard and cash, the payment summary on the listing says cash only, and several guests describe settling up in notes. Cancellation and prepayment conditions vary with the room and rate you choose, and the exact terms are shown for confirmation before you book, so check them against your dates.
The house is in Penarth, in the Vale of Glamorgan, not in Cardiff. Travel listings often file it under Cardiff because that is the nearest city and the old postal county, but the address and the CF64 postcode are firmly Penarth. Central Cardiff is about three miles north, a short direct train from the station at the end of the road.
Other Stays in Wales and Across the Channel
Carnock, Tenby
Pick it over Weaver's House when you want the sea from the window and a self-catering kitchen of your own rather than a shared one. It is a long drive west into Pembrokeshire, so it works for a week away, not a Cardiff overnight.
Four Seasons Budget, Aberystwyth
The choice if your trip is mid-Wales rather than the south coast. Similar value and a similarly small operation, but you lose the twelve-minute train into a capital city, which is the whole point of staying in Penarth.
Savoy Hotel, Weston-super-Mare
Directly across the Bristol Channel, and the better pick if you want private bathrooms and a staffed hotel rather than a family home with shared facilities. Trade the Cardiff train for a Somerset seafront.
Ready to Book Weaver's House B and B?
A warm family home, a garden to sit out in and a railway platform 50 yards from the door. Check your dates and see what is free.
Check Availability