Copthorne Hotel CardiffCaerdydd is a four star hotel (formerly five star) in

Culverhouse Cross Culverhouse Cross ( cy, Croes Cwrlwys) is a district straddling the boundary between Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, in the community of Wenvoe. The district is centred on a major traffic roundabout that links West Cardiff to the M4 mo ...

, a western suburb of

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, capital of

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. The hotel is operated by

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. It is located near the

Wenvoe transmitting station The Wenvoe transmitting station, officially known as Arqiva Wenvoe, is the main facility for broadcasting and telecommunications for South Wales and the West Country. It is situated close to the village of Wenvoe in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, i ...

, off the

A4050 road The A4050 road connects Barry, Vale of Glamorgan with Culverhouse Cross on the outskirts of Cardiff, Wales. It is approximately long, and is the key link road between the M4 motorway and Cardiff International Airport. 2008 road improvements ...

near the Culverhouse Cross roundabout (which intersects with the A48 and the A4232). The hotel has 135 bedrooms and also has a swimming pool, steam room, sauna, whirlpool and gymnasium. It was built in 1993 and has a lake at the front of the hotel which, when built, had a mound built at the front to hide the lake from the view of the road. The hotel was one of the earliest developments to take place at the Culverhouse Cross site as the development boom took off throughout the 1990s. Today the hotel is closely surrounded by retail outlets. The hotel made the news in the early 2000s after two guests had died from Legionnaires' disease, caused by an incorrectly installed

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. The hotel was fined £40,000 on top of £15,000 costs. The hotel made news again in the early 2020s after it was first used by the Home Office to house asylum seekers while their claims for asylum were assessed, then by Cardiff City Council as temporary accommodation for homeless families. Commenting on the decision to house homeless people at the hotel in September 2023, a spokesman for the Council described it as representing "better value for money than using hotels on an ad hoc, reactive basis".

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{{Economy and Industry of Cardiff Hotels in Cardiff Hotels established in 1993