Seminars and company events
Venue Cymru in Llandudno can host conferences of up to 1,500 delegates, with a 1,450-seat theatre for plenary sessions and 28 separate spaces for breakouts, exhibitions, dinners and meetings. The venue is the main theatre and conference center of North Wales, on the Promenade of the seaside town, and is owned and run by Conwy County Borough Council.
The venue has hosted national and international conferences since 1982, and its offer is built around large association and corporate meetings: a plenary in the theatre, an exhibition or awards dinner in the arena, sub-plenary sessions in the hall and workshops in the meeting rooms around the conference atrium. In-house teams cover technical support, security planned for each event, marketing and box office, which helps for conferences that sell tickets or registrations to the public.
Rooms and capacities
The theatre auditorium seats 1,450 and is used for plenary sessions, formal ceremonies, concerts and stage productions. The arena, on the ground floor and reached straight from the main atrium, adapts to awards dinners, exhibitions or a conference plenary area. The hall is a fully accessible conference room on the first floor for smaller conferences, sub-plenary sessions, gala dinners and exhibitions.
The Orme Suite is a flexible function room on the ground floor used for social events, conference catering or exhibition space. The Studio is a large conference room with a sprung floor. The meeting rooms open onto the conference atrium and range from 8 to 175 people. In total the building counts 28 spaces, and the venue describes its facilities as fully accessible. Ask the team for banquet, cabaret and exhibition figures per room, which the site does not list.
Accommodation
Venue Cymru has no bedrooms. Llandudno offers a wide choice of accommodation in different styles and budgets, and the venue lists local options for delegates on its conference pages.
Catering
The venue runs its own event catering and banqueting service for conference lunches, receptions and gala dinners, and has a restaurant, Y Review, for visitors and delegates.
History and setting
The building faces the bay on the Promenade of Llandudno, a Victorian seaside resort on the north coast of Wales, between the Great Orme and Little Orme headlands. Beyond conferences, the venue is a busy arts center with a year-round program of shows, so delegates can often end the day at a performance. A modernization plan, the Venue Cymru Futures Project, is set to update the building.
Getting there
The address is Venue Cymru, The Promenade, Llandudno LL30 1BB. The venue says it is about ten minutes from the main transport links. Llandudno station, on the branch line from Llandudno Junction on the North Wales Coast Line, is a short walk away, and the A55 expressway passes south of the town. Manchester and Liverpool are the nearest major airports.
