Y Castell, Cardiff Airport, Barry

Visited 12/07/26 No cask. Keg offering of Heineken, Guinness, Inch's, dark fruits SB, Moretti, Clwb Tropica, Easy Livin, Cruz, Neck Oil, Madri. This is easier the larger of the bars airside. The bar counter is a two-sided affair in the left-hand rear corner of the large floor space. Best seats in the house are some tall stools in the front large windows serving a drinking ledge overlooking the airfield. There are some leather studded banquettes around some of the internal walls serving regular tables. Plenty of tall and regular tables and drinking ledges around the space to pack as many pre-flight punters in as possible so you can have the pleasure, for example, of paying £8.65 for a very average pint of Guinness. Only screens were showing flight departures, and the sound was of a Radio Wales Sunday evening pop show, played at a low volume so the overwhelming sound was that of the excited chatter of pre-outwards flight holidaymakers. There is an area over in the diagonally far corner from the bar counter, with half-height internal walls with lattice woodwork panels above closing the space off and creating the feeling of faux exclusivity, the pristine sky-blue studded leather banquettes around the internal walls adding to that premium space feeling! For a quite small airport, this is a serious sized departure lounge bar!