Best Route To Milford Haven

[NozSpark]

Hi guys,

My daughter has to do some super tanker dodging over the weekend at a sailing comp at Milford Haven (Welsh Zone Championships)..

We're planning on leaving home tomorrow at about 11AM,,, the Sat nav has 2 routes for us...

1. Aberystwyth and then down the coastal road

2 Newtown and then over the Brecons...

Which route would you recommend?

 

[ProDave]

My experience of Aberystwyth is it's one of those areas where everybody drives at 40 regardless of road conditions and there's not many places to overtake.

 

[Jono Pashley]

Over Brecon is probably best, Everytime i go near Aberystwyth i get stuck behind slow people

 

[Sidewinder]

Never used the Brecon route to go up to N Wales when I was doing work up there.

Always if West Aberystwyth, if East, Llandovery, Newtown Wrexam (A483).

Remembering I'm coming from Swansea.

Typed on Firefox, in Zorin, running from a USB!

Quite quick considering.

 

[NozSpark]

I forgot to say.... I'll obviously be towing so please bear in mind that my trailer is 5m long but thankfully a touch narrower than the car

6x4 box trailer with an extended draw bar

 

[Sidewinder]

Noz,

Remember I was travelling in a van or 4x4.

Stick your start & end points into Google Maps, if it comes out like mine here then either of the routes will be fine TBH.

 

[NozSpark]

Speed isn't a problem.... The car has plenty of that... It's the other drivers and windy roads that will slow me down.

Did Llyn Clwyedog last weekend... Took 4 1/2 hours to get there (bad route and abysmal traffic), got back in 2 1/2 with a 15 min stop for a quick bite

Should be doing Aberdovey next weekend,, but we might knock that on the head as my daughter and friend (different club - same class - same birthday) want to try out in a 420 dinghy (double hander with trapieze) we'll have to see if we can borrow one off the Welsh Yachting Association for a few months..... The WYA are very keen to promote and help double hander girl teams as there are very few in Wales

 

[Evans Electric]

Hi guys,

My daughter has to do some super tanker dodging over the weekend at a sailing comp at Milford Haven (Welsh Zone Championships)..

We're planning on leaving home tomorrow at about 11AM,,, the Sat nav has 2 routes for us...

1. Aberystwyth and then down the coastal road

2 Newtown and then over the Brecons...

Which route would you recommend?

OK  Noz,  J1 of M5------off onto M50,   then A40 and the A449 towards Newport, onto the M4,,, past Cardiff...Swansea..then A48 to Camarthen, ontoo the A40 to Haverdfordwest   then A4076  into Milford Haven .

Simples  ( Well you DID ask)

 

[NozSpark]

Oh hell.... Its a long way for me to get to the M5 from here.... It'll take an age

 

[steptoe]

I'd probably use the M6, AVOID the toll unless you have pockets like Deke.

 

[SPECIAL LOCATION]

OK  Noz,  J1 of M5------off onto M50,   then A40 and the A449 towards Newport, onto the M4,,, past Cardiff...Swansea..then A48 to Camarthen, ontoo the A40 to Haverdfordwest   then A4076  into Milford Haven .

Simples  ( Well you DID ask)

I'd agree with Deke / Sandra / Spark-of-the-year**   {** delete as appropriate} .....

but I would go for junction 4 of the M5 as the starting point!

:coat

 

[Evans Electric]

Well you would starting from your Special Location

I'd probably use the M6, AVOID the toll unless you have pockets like Deke.

You mean EMPTY ones  Stepps  ?      The M6 toll is  , I think,  £4.50  ish  for a car .

Could be worth paying sometimes TBH    I was stuck on the M6  that long last week  I've received a Council Tax Bill .

A few Sundays ago there was the Mother of all jams between J8 & J9   with the M5 disgorging 10,000,000 cars a minute on to the M6 too .          Where were they all going ?    A ****ing sale at ****ing Ikea  at Junction  ****ing  9   :C

 

[Blue Duck]

Its not so bad Deke, youve got it good up there.

We've got the A406 and the M25 to contend with and the last time IKEA had a sale someone got stabbed

 

[Evans Electric]

You mean those roads are worse than the Midlands  M6,  the longest car park in Britain ? 

I only experienced the M25 once about 20 yrs ago when for some reason , we had to collect a transit full of light fittings from somewhere in London .

Nightmare. !!

 

[NozSpark]

Well **** me... We left home at 11:20 and got here at 17:00 with a 20min stop at Mac D's just outside Aberystwyth for a toilet stop and what they call food.

****ing Sunday drivers, coaches and camper vans slowing us down.... and then you get the friggin idiots that overtake a huge queue of traffic on a single lane road and push their way in... All to get there 5 cars earlier... Toss pots

 

[Blue Duck]

Sorry that was me! Grey audi right?

:slap

 

[Andy™]

i will overtake from the back and pull back in further forward if need be, but only if people upfront dont overtake. if i have time / space to overtake a good few cars then those at the front would have had plenty time to do so.

 

[Blue Duck]

I think most people get annoyed as they didn't think of it themselves :innocent

 

[Andy™]

probably. but it is weird how some will follow once they remember they can actually overtake.

people stopping behind a bus are the worst. i have no problem passing many cars waiting behind a bus because the person at the front cant think to get past themselves. only when its safe to do so and nothing coming the over way, of course

 

[NozSpark]

Oh,,, I did that.... It's just the idiots overtaking a queue to get 5 cars further up the road and then they still end up on the queue... It's an un necessary risk IMHO,,, but overtaking when the road ahead is clear I have no problem with