Near site, not near the ring road
We source around where the work actually is — industrial estates, port areas, power stations, depots. Drive time to the gate is the first thing we check.
Contractor accommodation in South Wales
KrewBase is home-grown in Cardiff, and South Wales is where our host network is deepest. We place contractor crews in whole houses and flats across the M4 corridor — Newport, Cardiff, Bridgend, Port Talbot, Swansea and everywhere in between — with bills, Wi-Fi, parking and weekly cleaning included, all on one invoice.
Two people for a fortnight is as welcome as two hundred for two years. No minimum crew, no minimum stay.
- 200+
- Properties under contract
- 1,284
- Crews housed
- <2h
- Typical shortlist turnaround
- 4
- Nations covered
We hold the property. You get on with the job.
We are not a booking platform that forwards your enquiry to hosts and waits for bids. We hold accommodation under contract, so when you need a crew housed we check what is genuinely free on your dates and send back options with photos, drive times and what is included.
Whole properties, whole crews
A team of six gets a house with a kitchen, a drying space and somewhere to sit at the end of a shift. They stay together, eat properly, and turn up in better shape.
One contact, one invoice
However many properties and sites, you deal with one person and get one consolidated invoice a month. Card payment terms for limited companies, subject to eligibility.
Why crews end up in houses
Hotels work well for one person for two nights. They stop working the moment you have a team, a long job, and a kitchen-shaped hole in everyone’s week.
| KrewBase | Hotel rooms | |
|---|---|---|
| Team stays together | Yes | Rarely |
| Kitchen & laundry | Standard | No |
| Van & tool parking | Most properties | Often paid |
| Weekday-only stays | Yes | Full rate |
| Extend mid-job | One call | Rebook |
| Invoicing | One, monthly | Per room, per stay |
| Credit terms | Card payment | Card on arrival |
Rates quoted against your actual requirement
Contractor accommodation is priced per person per night, and the number depends on location, dates, crew size and how long the job runs. We quote against your actual job rather than publishing a price that turns out to be wrong — the rate we quote is the rate invoiced, with no separate booking fee.
Short-term stays
Weeks rather than months — a two-week outage, a month of night works, a six-week commissioning stint. Fast turnaround, weekday-only options, no weekend charges when the crew is home.
Long-term project stays
Multi-month and multi-year jobs. Bookings roll and are reviewed as the job moves, so nobody has to rebook every few weeks and the crew stays put.
Teams of any size
From a two-man snagging crew to 100+ workers across multiple sites. We hold stock and source the rest, then run it all through one contact and one invoice.
Getting around South Wales from a crew house
The M4 is the spine of South Wales and it decides most commutes. Newport to Cardiff is about twenty minutes off-peak and a lot longer at 8am around the Brynglas tunnels; Bridgend to Port Talbot is quick until the junctions around the steelworks back up. That is why we shortlist on the drive at your start time, not the distance on a map. A crew starting at 6am can live almost anywhere on the corridor; a crew starting at 8 needs to be on the right side of the bottleneck.
Up the valleys the A470 runs from Cardiff through Pontypridd to Merthyr Tydfil, and the Heads of the Valleys road links Merthyr, Ebbw Vale and Abergavenny across the top. Valley towns often have bigger houses for the money and easier parking, so for longer jobs north of Cardiff they are worth a look. West of Swansea, Llanelli and the A48 cover the Carmarthenshire jobs.
Crews coming from England usually arrive over the Prince of Wales bridge, which puts Newport on the doorstep. For Severnside and Chepstow-side work we often base people on the eastern edge of Newport, which keeps both the bridge and the Welsh sites within easy reach.
Different work, different rules
A ward nurse on a six-week placement and a nightshift track gang need almost opposite things. We brief hosts on which is which.
Sector 01
Construction
Early starts, muddy boots, drying space and somewhere to park a Transit. Whole houses close to site.
Sector 02NHS & healthcare
Quiet, secure, walkable to the trust. Single occupancy as standard and shift-friendly check-in.
Sector 03Data centres
Long commissioning jobs and specialist travelling engineers. Desk space and good broadband.
Sector 04Energy
Outages and turnarounds that surge crew numbers fast, often in places with almost no hotel stock.
Sector 05Rail
Possession work and night shifts. Blackout blinds, late check-in and neighbours who will not be woken.
Something elseNot on the list?
Film crews, events, disaster recovery, seasonal agriculture. If it is a team away from home, ask us.
Four steps, and we do three of them
01
You tell us what you need
Location or postcode, how many people, start date, rough duration, and anything that matters — van parking, weekday-only, split shifts, female-only accommodation. Two minutes on the form or one phone call.
02
We shortlist from properties we already hold
We are not posting your job to a marketplace and waiting for bids. We hold the stock under contract, so we check what is genuinely free on your dates and send back options with photos, drive times and what is included.
03
You pick, we confirm
Choose the option that suits. We handle the host, the contract, the keys and the arrival instructions, and send your team everything they need before they set off.
04
The crew moves in — and we stay on it
Boiler stops working at 6am, job gets extended by four weeks, two more lads land on Tuesday. You ring us, not the landlord. Changes get sorted and roll onto the same invoice.
Real properties, currently held
A small slice of what we hold. Rates depend on dates, crew size and duration, so we quote per job rather than posting a price that turns out to be wrong.
Awkward location? That is the interesting part.
Power stations, rail depots and rural infrastructure sites where there is barely a hotel for miles. Those are the requirements we are best at.
South Wales is our home patch
The work driving South Wales enquiries right now is big and specific: the Tata Steel electric arc furnace rebuild at Port Talbot, the Vantage data centre campus at the old Ford plant in Bridgend, the South Wales Metro, Vantage’s Imperial Park site at Newport, and a steady run of rail possessions through Cardiff and Newport. Crews on those jobs need beds within a short drive of the gate — not a hotel on the wrong side of the Severn.
We are based in Cardiff and this is where the network is deepest. Whole houses for four to twelve workers, twin and single rooms, drives that take a Transit, drying space for wet kit, and check-ins that work for a 6am start or a midnight possession. Volume rates for stays of six weeks or more are normal here, not a favour.
Local bases we cover daily: Cardiff (CF), Newport (NP), Bridgend (CF31/32), Port Talbot (SA12/13), Neath (SA10/11), Swansea (SA1–7), Caerphilly (CF83) and Barry (CF62/63). If your site is somewhere thinner — a wind farm up a Valley, a grid job past Llanelli — that is a normal enquiry, not a problem.
Our biggest base is the capital: see contractor accommodation Cardiff for crew houses from Cardiff Bay and Splott to Llanishen and Cardiff Gate. Town by town across South Wales:
Cardiff Newport Swansea Bridgend Caerphilly Neath Port Talbot Merthyr Tydfil Pontypridd Barry Penarth Cwmbran Llanelli Aberdare Maesteg Porthcawl Ebbw Vale Blackwood Abergavenny Cowbridge Llantwit Major Carmarthen
Contractor accommodation in South Wales, answered
Along the whole M4 corridor and up the valleys: Newport, Cardiff, Barry and Penarth, Bridgend, Port Talbot, Neath, Swansea and Llanelli, plus Caerphilly, Pontypridd, Merthyr Tydfil, Aberdare and Cwmbran. If the site is somewhere thinner, such as a wind farm or a grid job, that is a normal enquiry.
The one closest to the gate at your start time, which is not always the nearest on a map. The M4 between Newport and Cardiff and around Port Talbot can add half an hour at peak times, so we judge every option on the real drive at your shift hours before it goes on the shortlist.
Yes. For the steelworks and the docks we look first at Port Talbot itself, Aberavon, Baglan and Neath, and widen to Bridgend or Swansea for bigger crews or longer jobs. Night-shift crews get houses on quieter streets so they can sleep in the day.
Yes. Caerphilly, Pontypridd, Merthyr Tydfil, Aberdare, Ebbw Vale and the Rhondda all have good-sized terraces and semis at sensible rents, and the A470 and the Heads of the Valleys road put most valley towns within reach of Cardiff and the M4.
No. Two people for a week get the same service as a twenty-strong gang: a whole house near site, bills and Wi-Fi in, a weekly clean and one invoice. There is no minimum crew size and no minimum stay.
Usually within two working hours. We are based in Cardiff and South Wales is where we hold the most property, so for Cardiff, Newport, Bridgend and Swansea keys can often be ready the same day.
The company, always. Everything is booked in the company name and billed on one monthly invoice, paid by card for limited companies. Your workers never pay a penny and never claim anything back on expenses.
Yes. We house each group near its own site, say a team in Newport and another in Port Talbot, and run it all through one contact and one monthly invoice. Moving people between houses as the job changes is a phone call.