01/06/2016
This spacious, well equipped three bedroom static caravan is located at a small quiet family-run site set in attractive gardens in a rural location ten minutes north of Amroth with its lovely wide sandy beach, seaside cafes and shops. It is just ninety minutes from Cardiff but is in another world close to the sea at the start of the Pembrokeshire Coast path, close to Saundersfoot, Tenby and Narberth and a short drive to top attractions such as the National Trust Colby Woodland Gardens, Anna’s Welsh Zoo, Heatherton, Oakwood and Folly Farm. The site is ideal for young families with its heated outdoor pool and safe play area:
Spacious lounge and open-plan dining room.
Three bedrooms (one double and two twin rooms).
Additional pull-out double sofa bed in lounge.
Well equipped kitchen with gas cooker, fridge and microwave.
Gas central heating.
Double glazing.
Shower room and separate WC.
Satellite TV with integrated DVD player.
Free Wifi.
Board games for all ages.
Sheets are provided. Please bring your own towels.
Dog friendly. The kitchen is equipped with dog bowls. (Please bring own dog bed and please keep your dog on a lead in the site).
Children’s play area with swings and slide adjacent to the caravan.
Heated outdoor swimming pool.
On-site laundry facilties.
Wool and craft shop.
If you're interested in please email Sue on: [email protected] to find out more and to check on availability.
Local attractions:
Colby Woodland Gardens - 5 minute drive from the site. SA67 8PP
Turn right at site exit, drive down the hill for just under a mile turn right at the sign and drive down the hill. Turn left into the main car park next to walled garden. Owned by the National Trust (entrance fee), with beautiful grounds and walled gardens. National Trust shop, with rubber ducks for racing in the stream. Nice cafe, art gallery and craft shop. Lovely woodland walks and if you keep going south on the path you come out at Amroth beach.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/colby-woodland-garden
Amroth beach: Blue flag beach at the start of the Pembrokeshire Coast Path. Safe wide sandy beach with pebble bank up to a promenade with shops and cafes. Excellent sand for sand castles.
The sandy part of the beach is covered by the sea at high tide so time your visit to coincide with lower tides to ensure the children and dogs can get onto the beach (Tide Table booklet in the book case near the binoculars). At low tides roots and logs of an ancient forest submerged at the end of the last Ice Age can be seen in the sand. The beach is a ten minute drive from the site. Turn right at site exit, drive down the hill all the way to the beach (road is narrow in places). Turn right at the seafront and drive along the front for 500m. Large free car park at rear of shops (turn right at Amroth Arms pub). The road is narrow in places.
Tenby - 20 minute drive.
Has to be done! Lots of nice shops, restaurants, a beautiful harbour and beaches. Also check out the Tudor Merchants House, Tenby Museum and Gallery and Lifeboat Station. Boat rides and fishing trips. Try the Caldey Shop for chocolate and shortbread made on the island.
Saundersfoot - 15 minute drive. Good fish a chip shop on the harbour. Busy marina if you like watching the boats. Nice beach (no dogs in summer).
Narberth 20 minute drive.
Narbeth is great for independent shops, restaurants and cafes (e.g. tapas), museum and castle.
Folly Farm: 20 minutes drive.
Great day out for the kids. Bottle feed the lambs. Giraffes, lions, gorillas, rhinos. Playgrounds. Recently won the “Best Day Out in Wales” National Tourism Awards prize.
www.folly-farm.co.uk
Anna’s Welsh Zoo: 25 minute drive to the west of Tenby. SA70 8RJ
Great family day out with meerkats, gibbons, lemurs and wallabies.
www.annaswelshzoo.co.uk
Heatherton: 25 minute drive. Opposite Anna’s Welsh Zoo. SA70
8RJ
Go-karting, baseball, golf, crazy golf, archery, paintball.
www.heatherton.co.uk
Oakwood: 25 minute drive SA67 8DE
Theme park with roller coasters, zip wires, miniature railway, boats, Neverland, mini golf etc.
www.oakwoodthemepark.co.uk
Caldey Island: 20 minutes boat ride from Tenby Harbour
Unique monastic island with boats daily from Tenby harbour (closed Sundays)
www.caldey-island.co.uk
Dog walking: There are some great dog walks nearby
Colby Woodland Gardens: 5 minute drive from the site. Turn right at the site exit and drive down the hill for half a mile. Turn right a the sign for Colby Woodland Gardens. Drive down the hill and park at the overflow car park on the right (rather than in the main car park further down the hill). Lovely walks through the woodland behind the car park.
Llanteague Woods, 5 minute drive from the site. Turn left at the site exit, carry on for half a mile past houses, turn right after bus stop, then go down hill for 200m and then turn right when you see a plastic bollard next to the small car park.
Amroth beach: 10 minute drive from the site. Large free car park behind Osbornes shop and Pirates cafe. Dog friendly all year round to the right of the slipway to the beach (opposite Smugglers restaurant). Lots of doggy friends to be made. Go at low tide otherwise kids and dogs will be disappointed (tide tables are in a small booklet in the bookcase near the binoculars).
Tenby south beach (not the harbour or north beach in the summer). Park near in the large pay and display and head past the new beach-side apartments. Turn right when you get on the beach.
Places to eat in Amroth:
Pirates Cafe on the beach. Great for kids and they do good take-away pizzas. Best coffee and Welsh cakes in Amroth.
Smugglers Restaurant: Great for kids
National Trust cafe at Colby Woodland Gardens
New Inn at the opposite (eastern) end of Amroth beach. Good for Sunday lunch.
Amroth Arms: Traditional pub fare overlooking the beach
How to get there:
M4 West to Pont Abraham services.
At Pont Abraham straight on to Carmarthen (A48).
At the Carmarthen roundabouts follow signs for St Clears (A40).
At St Clears take first exit at the roundabout to Pembroke Dock and Tenby (A477).
After the sign for Pembrokeshire sign take a left after the Murco petrol station (a good place to buy milk and bread before you arrive) sign-posted to Llanteglos Estate and Wanderers Rest
After three quarters of a mile turn right into Amroth Bay Holidays site 200 metres after the junction from the right. There’s a banner on the gate for Emily's Funky Knits.
Visit the National Trust's Colby Woodland Garden, Pembrokeshire, Wales
