Yha St Briavels Castle
Tuesday: 10:00 - 22:00
Wednesday: 10:00 - 22:00
Thursday: 10:00 - 22:00
Friday: 10:00 - 22:00
Saturday: 10:00 - 22:00
Sunday: 10:00 - 22:00
About Yha St Briavels Castle
Whether travelling independently, with a family or friends, or with a larger social group, St Briavels Castle is a venue with a real “WOW” factor.
Yha St Briavels Castle Description
Whether travelling independently, with a family or friends, or with a larger social group, St Briavels Castle is a venue with a real “WOW” factor that will amaze and inspire young and old alike. The Castle is over 800 years old, with bags of character and remarkably well-preserved features throughout, and a basic charm that promotes social interaction and historical interest in equal measure. You enter this remarkable and unique YHA site through a triple portcullis gatehouse into a secluded courtyard and walled garden, and then enter through the grand wooden period door into the West Tower to a warm welcome fit for a King or Queen. Take a walk through time within this former hunting lodge of King John from the 13th century, spend a peaceful moment in his Chapel, rest your feet in his bed-chamber, and wonder who spent time in the debtors prison and met their grizzly end on the Castle gallows. The Castle is a Grade 1 listed ancient monument, a rich piece of our heritage and an inspiring location at amazingly affordable prices. The perfect background for weddings, private parties, family holidays, activity breaks, as well as school visits (where students really do “learn outside the classroom” as they are transported back in time to Medieval world of King John and the Magna Carta).
Access to the hostel is limited during the day. The castle has two huge traditional gates that are locked at 11. 30pm.
Reviews
- 1 day! See tomorrow!! 🤩🤗🎭🎉
Last Sunday, Forest and Wye after trying to attack, in vain 😎, our walls 🏰. They tried to lure us out with the smell of BBQ ...
They Won.😅 😋🍔
... {We apologize for the photo, but one of our archers suffers from myopia.}
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- 2 days!
- 3 days!
Thanks to i-escape.com for including us on their recent blog of the 6 best places to see autumn colours: https://www.i-escape.com/blog/britains-be st-autumn-colours/
Dean Forest Wye Valley
Discover a true hidden gem of the Forest! St Briavels Castle dates back to the 12th Century and is remarkably well preserved. The YHA operates a youth hostel inside the Castle (since 1947). Join their costumed staff on free Castle tours or explore the nooks and crannies at your leisure. Have a go at archery or a range of activities and crafts, or simply relax within in the ancient walled gardens and enjoy a cake and cuppa from the cafe.
Saturday 8th &Sunday 9th September 11...am to 4pm •Free Entry •Free Castle Tours •Free Crafts & Activities •Archery (donation fee) • Refreshments
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Our advice is to write this postcode GL15 6RG 😎😇😇 (😈🧐🤭)
6th to 9th September St Briavels caste :) Take a note!
#heritageopenday #yha #stbriavels #castle #englishheritage
Every young person should get a chance to spread their wings. Because where you go changes who you become.
You are still in time to join!! Don't lose the chance 😁 😎🏰🥕🍻🍖🍗🍲🍰🐝
Siege warfare has afflicted many of the mighty castles in our care, the cunning and violent tactics involved becoming the stuff of legend so often portrayed on screen. But how much of this is actually true? We uncover some little-known facts about English sieges: https://eht.social/2MGypo8
70 year of YHA ST BRIAVELS <3
Happy birthday!!!!
Did you know that you can now refill your water bottles for free at our hostels? 🥤
We have recently joined Refill, a national free tap water initiative and our locations are now listed on the the Refill scheme website and app!
Learn more ➡️ http://socsi.in/N5fW2
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We had an amazing stay for a 40th a few weeks ago, and to top off our stay the friendly staff recovered our ipad that we managed to leave behind!?
We had an amazing stay at Saint Briavels on Saturday 12th August. We didn't want to leave! It is a beautiful castle in a stunning setting. All the staff were friendly and extremely helpful. Medieval banquet...food and entertainment was fab and we all loved being the head table for the night to celebrate Sam's 9th birthday! Castle tour was fab (...as was YHA's Chris...the oobly boobly man..!!.). Archery lesson rounded off our weekend perfectly. I also feel quite privaledged to have heard was turned out to be 'Tom' rolling his stones around...eeekk...exciting! Thankyou all for a fantastic and memorable time!
We had a lovely time here. Really exciting to stay in such an historic building, with beautiful surroundings and good friendly service to boot.
Very impressive ! Some great surprises in the castle ! Staff do a great job in providing entertainment, we've had medieval banquet, historic tour, bedtime stories with a Knight ! And archery !
Rooms are amazing
Our class adored our residential to St Briavel's and haven't stopped talking about it since. The archery and castle tour in particular went down really well. All of the staff were brilliant but Chris went above and beyond- from giving us helpful directions for our minibus the day before we arrived to dressing up as a medieval constable and leading us in our banquet. An unforgettable and faultless experience.
Just a night, king john, breakfast, while up to see the museum of the moon installation at Tintern Abbey. Great acoustics too, played a couple of tunes, lovely natural reverb to the room
I was there today most beautiful castle over in the church yard my family have got a family plot
Had a fantastic stay here. What a beautiful place, food was first class, bed was so comfy. My word Youth Hostels have come a long way...... A huge 'WELL DONE' to all the staff for a wonderful weekend.
Great place to stay.
Great place but I wish you employed people with more original names.
Great few days working with YHA staff! Great venue in a beautiful part of the country
Brilliant place! I worked here many moons ago and me and my children love to come here to visit and play during the holidays
More about Yha St Briavels Castle
Tuesday: 10:00 - 22:00
Wednesday: 10:00 - 22:00
Thursday: 10:00 - 22:00
Friday: 10:00 - 22:00
Saturday: 10:00 - 22:00
Sunday: 10:00 - 22:00