Cardiff Gate

Cardiff Gate
Welcome Break
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Road:	M4 at J30 (also accessible to traffic on the A4232)
Address:	Cardiff Gate Business Park Pontprennau Cardiff South Glamorgan CF23 8RA
Telephone number:	02920 541122
Signposted from the road?	As Waitrose/Starbucks
Grid reference:	ST216828
Services type:	Single site located at a junction.
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Cardiff Gate is a small service station which is part of Cardiff Gate International Business Park. It was recently bought by Welcome Break.

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Facilities

General: Welcome Break Gaming, Showers
Restaurants: Starbucks, Burger King
Shops: WH Smith, Waitrose
Fuel: Total (pump types unknown)
Motel: Ibis Hotel^[website]

Parking Prices

First two hours free for all vehicles, after which cars must pay £8 and caravans, coaches and HGVs £15. These prices include a £2/£6 food voucher respectively.

Prices can be paid in the shop and restaurant, with instructions in each car park. They are strictly enforced by ParkingEye.

Trivia

Cardiff Gate was originally an overgrown local facility, including a Little Chef, which was receiving little attention after Granada left the industry.

In July 2007 Welcome Break bought the site for £650,000 and over a few months they brought in their facilities. The move was presumably to rival Moto's nearby Cardiff West, and it added another 60 staff to the 4,000 already working in the area.

The services have 180 car parking spaces including 15 disabled spaces, 35 HGV spaces and 5 caravan spaces.

In May 2010 a Starbucks opened replacing the Eat In and Coffee Primo, making it one of the first services not to have a 'proper' restaurant.

Survey Results

In 2008 the services won a five star loo award. They came top in the Welsh motorway services category.

In 2006, Holiday Which rated Cardiff Gate as 2 out of 5.

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Comments and Reviews

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Author: Message: Anonymous parked last week with truck, disapointed with security, no cameras in parking area, trucks get broken into, as access from behind hedges to another parking area. very poor,all these problems and still charge £15 for what? Posted: 23 May 2010, 05:41 m42 This is signed as waitrose/burger king Posted: 16 May 2010, 23:31 Anonymous Waitrose is now open, I found the store excellent and the staff were so friendly, Coffee Primo is now closed but a tempoary unit is in place untill the starbucks opens next moth. Overall an excellent service station Posted: 08 May 2010, 17:57 Anonymous Phoned the services, as we were about to leave from London the drive to deepest darkest Wales for Christmas. An extremely helpful lady answered the phone, and although they are not a travel/traffic service for people to phone for traffic news she informed me of the current conditions of the M4 around the Cardiff Gate area. These are the sort of employees company's should reward for good service. Although the company are probably more interested in profit margins than staff well being. Posted: 21 Dec 2009, 11:06 Anonymous A generally fair service station only thing it has going for it was that i was served by will off the inbetweeners! Posted: 03 Dec 2009, 23:30 Anonymous Amazing services!!! The coffee in primo was the best ive ever had Gives a really good impression to visitors of Wales! Posted: 03 Dec 2009, 23:24 Anonymous Great services! Posted: 19 Mar 2009, 21:03 Johnny Was the petrol station not open? Posted: 04 Jul 2008, 17:30 Anonymous Beware. This is not a real 24hour service station. I had to leave and be locked out at 9.30pm on a ice cold December night when I was waiting for recovery. Posted: 03 Jul 2008, 21:04 John J I visited this one for the first time last week. I have driven past so often an not known it was there(Junc 30, M4) as all the motorway signs are down whilst the road is being widened, But was glad I did stop. Fab quite services. Posted: 21 Nov 2007, 10:16
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