Access Guide
Summary
- View information about opening hours.
- There is not a member of staff available for help and assistance.
- The following are also available: seating, a large map in the car park and an information board in the car park.
- Toilet and changing facilities available include: an accessible toilet for the use of everyone and a standard toilet.
- There are 2 toilets with adaptations for disabled people.
- The toilets with adaptations for disabled people surveyed can be found on the access road down to the beach.
- This toilet with adaptations for disabled people is approximately 240m from the main car park.
- The standard toilet surveyed can be found on the left side on the welcome hut in the car park.
Admissions
- At this location the following are free to access for all visitors: coastline.
- At this location the following areas are free to access for National Trust members but payable for everyone else: car park.
- At this location the following areas require payment from everyone (including National Trust members): none.
Public Transport
- There is not a bus stop within approximately 150m of the site.
- The nearest train station is Pwllheli.
- Pwllheli railway station is located 16 miles away on Station Square.
- For the latest travel options and information you can plan your travel using Traveline (opens new tab).
Parking
- This site has a car park.
- The vehicle route from the main road to the car park includes: uneven surfaces.
- This is an open air car park with a grass and compacted gravel surface.
- Parking is free for National Trust members and Blue Badge holders, but charges apply for all other visitors.
- There are clearly presented payment signs.
- Maps and information boards are available.
- There are 3 Blue Badge parking bays.
- There is no hatched zone.
- The nearest Blue Badge bay is 15m from the visitor reception.
- There are not parent and child parking bays available.
- There is 1 electric vehicle charging point.
- The dimensions of the electric vehicle charging bay surveyed are 340cm x 458cm.
- There is no electric vehicle charging point designated for Blue Badge holders.
Parking (Beach drop-off)
- There is a designated drop-off point with a dropped kerb which does not have tactile paving.
- The drop-off point is located approximately 40 metres uphill from the beach.
Visitor Reception
- There is step-free level access into the area.
- The door is manual, opens outwards and has a low colour contrast with the surrounding walls.
- There is a small lip on the threshold of the doorway with a height of less than 1.5cm.
- At the time of survey the visitor reception was locked and not surveyable as it was out of season.
Picnic Area
- The following information describes the picnic area located near the vehicular exit to the car park.
- There is step-free level access into the area.
- There are picnic tables.
- No chairs have armrests on both sides.
- Adapted picnic tables are not available.
- The standard height for the underside of picnic tables is 70cm.
- The following furniture is permanently fixed: all of the chairs and all of the tables.
- There is step-free level access around the area.
- Some of the surface in the picnic area in the area is smooth and even.
- Where the flooring is not smooth or even, this is due to grass.
Toilet with Adaptations (Beach Access Road, First Toilet - Accessible - Right Hand Transfer)
- This toilet is located on the access road above the beach.
- There is step-free level access into the toilet.
- This toilet is approximately 64m from the beach.
- There is pictorial and written text signage on or near the door.
- The door is manual, opens outwards and has a low colour contrast with the surrounding walls.
- The width of the toilet door opening is 79cm.
- The door has a twist lock.
- Internally the door has a high colour contrast.
- There is a small lip on the threshold of the doorway with a height of more than 1.5cm.
- The dimensions of the cubicle are 152cm x 203cm and it has a turning space of at least 150cm x 150cm.
- There is a lateral transfer space to the right of the seat.
- The lateral transfer space is 83cm from the side of the toilet pan to the wall.
- There is a lever flush on the transfer side.
- The following grab rails are available: a horizontal grab rail on the non transfer side, a vertical grab rail on the transfer side and vertical grab rails on both sides of the wash basin.
- There is a dropdown rail on the transfer side.
- The following fixtures can be reached from the toilet seat: toilet roll holder.
- The following fixtures cannot be reached from the toilet seat: wash basin, soap dispenser and hand dryer.
- The height of the toilet seat above floor level is 43cm.
- The height of the toilet roll holder is 107cm.
- The wash basin tap type is lever mixer.
- The height of the wash basin is 83cm.
- The height of the soap dispenser is 94cm.
- The height of the hand dryer is 117cm.
- The height of the baby change is 88cm.
- There is no emergency alarm.
- There is a shelf located where it is not reachable for seated and standing users.
- The shelf does not meet the criteria for Stoma Friendly Toilets. For the Stoma Friendly Toilets criteria click here and select the Stoma Friendly tab in the right hand pane.
- The cubicle has: a nappy/incontinence items bin and a sanitary bin.
- The cubicle does not have a mirror and coat hooks.
- The following have a high colour contrast with their surroundings: all grab rails, the floor, the internal door and the dropdown rail.
- The following have a less clear colour contrast with their surroundings: the toilet seat.
- Lighting levels are moderate to good.
Toilet with Adaptations (Beach Access Road, Second Toilet - Accessible - Right Hand Transfer)
- This toilet is located on the access road above the beach.
- There is step-free level access into the toilet.
- This toilet is approximately 67m from the beach.
- There is pictorial and written text signage on or near the door.
- The door is manual, opens outwards and has a low colour contrast with the surrounding walls.
- The width of the toilet door opening is 78cm.
- The door has a twist lock.
- Internally the door has a high colour contrast.
- There is a small lip on the threshold of the doorway with a height of more than 1.5cm.
- The dimensions of the cubicle are 152cm x 179cm and it has a turning space of at least 150cm x 150cm.
- There is a lateral transfer space to the right of the seat.
- The lateral transfer space is 83cm from the side of the toilet pan to the wall.
- There is a lever flush on the transfer side.
- The following grab rails are available: a horizontal grab rail on the non transfer side, a vertical grab rail on the transfer side and vertical grab rails on both sides of the wash basin.
- There is a dropdown rail on the transfer side.
- The following fixtures can be reached from the toilet seat: toilet roll holder.
- The following fixtures cannot be reached from the toilet seat: wash basin, soap dispenser and hand dryer.
- The height of the toilet seat above floor level is 42cm.
- The height of the toilet roll holder is 102cm.
- The wash basin tap type is lever mixer.
- The height of the wash basin is 86cm.
- The height of the soap dispenser is 98cm.
- The height of the hand dryer is 121cm.
- The height of the baby change is 89cm.
- There is no emergency alarm.
- There is not a shelf.
- The cubicle has: a sanitary bin.
- The cubicle does not have a mirror and coat hooks.
- The following have a high colour contrast with their surroundings: the dropdown rail, the internal door, the floor and all grab rails.
- The following have a less clear colour contrast with their surroundings: the toilet seat.
- Lighting levels are moderate to good.
Standard Toilet (Welcome Cabin)
- There is step-free level access into the toilet.
- The door is manual, opens outwards and has a low colour contrast with the surrounding walls.
- The width of the door opening is 80cm.
- Internally the door has a high colour contrast.
- The shared standard toilet was surveyed.
- The wash basin tap type is lever mixer.
- Lighting levels are moderate to good.
- There are hand dryers.
- There is a baby change facility which is not at a suitable height for a wheelchair user.
Equipment and Resources to Borrow
- Equipment cannot be borrowed or hired.
- Powered mobility vehicles cannot be borrowed or hired.