Areas: where to base yourself
- Mumbles: restaurants, sea views and easy buses.
- Swansea Marina and city centre: hotels near the station and museums.
- Rhossili and Port Eynon: the far end of Gower, for beaches and sunsets.
- Reynoldston and Oxwich: inland quiet in the middle of the peninsula.
Food and drink
Try laverbread (a purée of seaweed) and cockles from Penclawdd, traditionally fried with bacon for breakfast, Gower salt-marsh lamb and Mumbles ice cream. Swansea Market is the place to taste them.
Tides and safety
Worm’s Head and several coves are cut off by fast tides. Read the tide tables, and only swim at lifeguarded beaches in season. Rip currents are common at Rhossili and Llangennith.
Surfing
Llangennith, at the north end of Rhossili Bay, is the best-known surf beach in Wales; surf schools rent boards and wetsuits.
Sample plans
One day
Morning walk at Three Cliffs Bay, lunch in Mumbles, and the afternoon and sunset at Rhossili.
Two days
Add Swansea Market, the National Waterfront Museum and an evening on the bay, or cross to Worm’s Head at low tide.
Three days
Drive west to the Dylan Thomas Boathouse in Laugharne and on to Tenby.
