Chauffeur Services in Bangor, Gwynedd

The A55 is a quick road with slow moments, and the ones that matter near Bangor are the Britannia Bridge and the Penmaenbach and Pen-y-Clip tunnels east towards Conwy. The bridge narrows to a single lane in each direction, is thoroughly exposed to crosswinds, and closes to high-sided vehicles in a gale, which pushes everything onto the Menai Suspension Bridge and its own limits. When the forecast looks poor we set off earlier rather than gamble on the crossing.

Inland, Telford's A5 through Nant Ffrancon and Capel Curig is one of the great drives in Wales and one of the least predictable. It carries walkers' cars from first light on a clear weekend, the laybys below Tryfan fill by nine, and in winter the ground around Ogwen holds ice long after the coast has cleared. For anything heading south towards Betws-y-Coed we usually allow half as long again as the map proposes.

Britain's weather does more to a long journey than its traffic does. Winter afternoons close in early, which matters when the last leg is a single-track road, and Highland and moorland routes can take substantially longer than a summer estimate suggests. We build that into the timings rather than discovering it together, and where a departure hour makes a schedule uncomfortable we will suggest a better one.

Demand follows the calendar. Bank holiday weekends, the weeks either side of Christmas, the summer wedding season and the university terms that begin and end together all fill quickly, and the further from London a journey runs, the earlier a car should be committed to it. Midweek travel in the shoulder months is the easiest thing in the world to arrange.