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First 2 hours free for all vehicles, after which cars must pay £6 and other vehicles £7. Prices can be paid at the pay and display machines in each parking area. | First 2 hours free for all vehicles, after which cars must pay £6 and other vehicles £7. Prices can be paid at the pay and display machines in each parking area. | ||
Fees are strictly enforced by APCOA. | Fees are strictly enforced by [[APCOA]]. | ||
This information is provided to us by third parties. You should always check with staff on site. | This information is provided to us by third parties. You should always check with staff on site. | ||
Revision as of 19:53, 14 March 2021
LL57 4BG
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Single site located at a junction..
A huge building considering what few facilities it offers, Bangor is a bit of a relic in a far corner of Wales.
Facilities
Catering: Burger King Drive Thru, Starbucks Drive Thru, Starbucks on the Go Shops: Sainsbury's On the go : Travelodge Template:Charging points Forecourt: Esso, SPAR, Starbucks on the Go, Greggs, Subway, AdBlue4You, Free Cash Machine
Parking Prices
First 2 hours free for all vehicles, after which cars must pay £6 and other vehicles £7. Prices can be paid at the pay and display machines in each parking area.
Fees are strictly enforced by APCOA.
This information is provided to us by third parties. You should always check with staff on site.
Contact Details
🏢 Address:
Bangor Service Station
Llandygai
Bangor
Gwynedd
LL57 4BG
Trivia and History
The building with One Stop branding in 1992.
The A5 and A55 don't have many full service areas. There are local facilities (both signposted and not-signposted) along both of these roads, but few services.
Top Rank had been looking at options on trunk roads, and saw this as an opportunity to build one of their smaller services, while providing one of the biggest services in the region. They opened it under their smaller name, One Stop.
It had one corridor running through the middle with a shop on the left, and a restaurant on the right. The motel joins the main building on the left. Until 2017, the amenity building was still partly painted in its original green. It is now painted in Travelodge's corporate blue.
Sales
Top Rank became Pavilion and in 1994 Pavilion sold the site to Forte, as they needed money and decided they'd rather focus on motorways. Pavilion wanted £750,000 for the services, although it's not thought that they got this.
Forte changed the restaurant to become a large Little Chef, the shop to a Little Chef Shop and the hotel to a Forte Travelodge. As Little Chef was then passed through various owners, it gained a Coffee Stop, Café Nescafe, Burger King, Coffee Tempo! and a Little Chef Express. For a time, it was a Little Chef Choices site with Caffè Ritazza and Harry Ramsden's menus.
The main sign at the front of the building promoted it as a Little Chef, alongside the other brand logos and large 'Bangor' lettering. Unusually, the Travelodge logo was written on a red sign. This was changed to blue with the 2005 rebrand.
Euro Garages Works
In March 2015, Euro Garages bought the petrol station and submitted planning permission to demolish it and replace the facilities with a BP forecourt, Spar store and Starbucks on the Go, Subway and Greggs food facilities as well as a Starbucks drive thru across the forecourt. This was due to be completed by the end of 2016, but did not happen due to planning permission refusals.
In February 2017, Euro Garages acquired Little Chef and announced plans to close the restaurant. In April 2017, a Subway opened in the existing forecourt.
Then, during early 2018, the Little Chef was re-branded as EG Diner and Euro Garages finally gained approved planning permission for the Starbucks Drive Thru and forecourt refurbishment. The filling station reopened branded Esso in June 2018 with a Spar store, Greggs and Subway stores and Starbucks on the Go machines. The Starbucks Drive Thru opened on Friday 3 August 2018.
EG Diner closed in October 2018 as Euro Garages stopped supporting the brand.
In summer 2019, Euro Garages refurbished the main building here which involved relocated the main entrance to the right of building taking the entrance away from the Travelodge reception area. The Burger King restaurant here was also relocated to the former area Little Chef occupied so that a drive thru lane could be placed alongside the main building. A Sainsbury's On the go store was also introduced replacing the former space occupied by Burger King and the former Little Chef Express area is now unoccupied and hidden behind a fake wall.
Alternatives
| Previous: | Next: | |
| none | Services on the A55 | Orme View (westbound, 10 miles) Kinmel Park (28 miles) |
| Gledrid (58 miles) | Services on the A5 | none |
| Kinmel Park (28 miles) | Euro Garages services | none |
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