Wales
Wales Spring Rally
Wales has the best driving roads in Britain. Start the year on them.
12–14 March 2027 · 3 days / 2 nights · From £399pp twin share
South, then north, then home. Three days on the best driving roads in Britain, before the season has even started.
The first trip of the year, and the one that shakes the winter off. Three days across the finest driving roads in Wales — from the Black Mountains to Snowdonia — while everyone else is still waiting for spring to arrive.
South first: the Gospel Pass over the Black Mountains, down into the Wye Valley at Hay, then across the Brecon Beacons and the Black Mountain Pass to Llandeilo. North on day two through the Elan Valley and over Bwlch y Groes — the highest paved road in Wales, the climb manufacturers once used to test prototypes — across the Migneint moor and into Snowdonia. Day three starts with the Llanberis Pass under Snowdon, then home the fast way: the sweeping moorland roads above Denbigh, and down the Horseshoe Pass into Llangollen.
Wales in March is empty. No campervans, no coaches, nobody sitting in the passing places. Just cold air, long views, and roads you get to yourself. Two nights, two hotels we know and trust, and a route no Road Trip Co trip has run this way round before.
Group Road Trip
From £399pp
Per person, two sharing
Solo from £685 with your own room
Deposit £500 per car · balance due 4 December 2026
✓ Two nights hotel accommodation with breakfast
✓ Welcome dinner and dinner on night two
✓ Printed road book with day-by-day directions
Why This Trip
Why March
The roads are yours.
March sits before everything. Bwlch y Groes and the Gospel Pass see almost no traffic, and the passing places are there when you need them rather than full of somebody else.
Winter light.
Low sun across the moors and the reservoirs all day. It is the best month of the year to photograph Wales — and the one nobody thinks to book.
A proper start to the year.
Most people don’t drive anything interesting between October and May. This is the weekend that ends that.
Short days by design.
Nothing over four hours behind the wheel. The route is built around March daylight rather than fighting it.
Price Includes
What’s Included
✓ Two nights hotel accommodation with breakfast
✓ Welcome dinner on night one
✓ Dinner on night two
✓ Welcome drinks on arrival
✓ Printed road book with day-by-day directions
✓ Full on-trip support, hosted throughout
✗ Fuel
✗ Lunches
✗ Travel insurance
✗ UK breakdown cover
✗ Drinks beyond the included events
Day by Day
The Itinerary
Day 1 · Fri 12 Mar
South Wales and the Gospel Pass
Meet at Abergavenny late morning and go straight up the Gospel Pass — the highest road in south Wales, single track over the Black Mountains, with the drop into the Wye Valley waiting at the far end. Lunch in Hay-on-Wye among the bookshops, then south-west across the Brecon Beacons and over the Black Mountain Pass to Llandeilo for the welcome dinner.
Day 2 · Sat 13 Mar
Bwlch y Groes and Snowdonia
The big driving day. North from Llandeilo to the Elan Valley and its Victorian dams, then Rhayader and Machynlleth to Bwlch y Groes, the highest paved road in Wales at 545 metres. Down to Bala, then the B4391 across the wide-open Migneint moor and over the Crimea Pass at Blaenau Ffestiniog into the heart of Snowdonia for dinner, bed and breakfast.
Day 3 · Sun 14 Mar
Llanberis, the Horseshoe Pass, and home
The Llanberis Pass first — a glacial valley between the Glyderau and the Snowdon massif — then a fast final run on roads no other trip of ours uses: the sweeping moorland above Denbigh, with sightlines for miles, and the Horseshoe Pass down into Llangollen, where the trip ends. Easy access to the A5, A483 and the motorway network in every direction. Home for Sunday dinner.
The Route
Drive it before you decide.
Tap the days to see each leg, the stops, and the overnight towns.
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