The resort is located near Hensol Castle, in the Vale of Glamorgan, around 10 miles outside Cardiff city centre.

[1] Around this course, a golf clubhouse was opened, followed by a health club and spa facility in 1998, designed for 4,500 members.

[2] The 143-bedroom hotel was opened in November 1999,[3] along with an indoor sports training arena, in a partnership with the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU).

[4] The WRU continue to use the facility as their training base during domestic fixture periods such as the Six Nations Championship and Autumn internationals, and in 2009 the training facilities were developed further and relaunched as the WRU National Centre of Excellence, which includes three full-size outdoor rugby pitches as well as the indoor pitch and two administration blocks, where the national squad's backroom staff and the WRU's development and academy staff are based.

[7] In 2011, at the request of then-Wales manager Gary Speed, the FAW moved the national team's training base to Newport's Celtic Manor Resort, resulting in a £15,000 compensation payout to the Vale Resort.