Special offers of accommodation for the Dylan Thomas 100 festival


Special offers of accommodation for the Dylan Thomas 100 festival in April are now available on www.discovercarmarthenshire.com
The Dylan Thomas 100 festival is a year-long festival celebrating the birth of Dylan Thomas with a variety of special events running across South West Wales during 2014. Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Swansea Councils are involved under the umbrella of the Welsh Government.
Carmarthenshire events are centred on the Dylan Thomas Boathouse in Laugharne, where Dylan wrote many of his most influential and important works and also across the whole of Carmarthenshire where Dylan found the inspiration for the many works he wrote about Carmarthenshire including such favourites as “Fernhill”, “Poem in October” and even his most influential work “Under Milk Wood”.
This April will see the literary glitterati descend on Laugharne for the return of the well established and highly regarded Laugharne Weekend Festival, but will also see a further Laugharne Weekend festival in May and two in September. Further events will take place in 2014 across the whole of Carmarthenshire to celebrate the birth of one of the county’s favourite sons.
Carmarthenshire County Council executive board member for regeneration and leisure Cllr Meryl Gravell said: “The Dylan Thomas 100 festival will provide a boost to the local economy and the tourism and accommodation sector by raising awareness about Carmarthenshire and encouraging people from across the world to visit and stay with us.”
Accommodation suitable for the Dylan Thomas 100 festival and the Laugharne Weekend Festivals can be found on www.discovercarmarthenshire.com along with Dylan Thomas related Special Offers from our accommodation owners.
Carmarthenshire County Council was the first council to work with our accommodation sector to help them produce special offers suitable for the festivals and theses offers are now listed on the Welsh Assembly Dylan Thomas 100 website.

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