Nowhere in the national park is more than ten miles from the sea, so even a farmhouse in the middle of the county has the coast within half an hour. That is the whole reason to come.
17 places to stay · showing 1–10
Cardigan, Pembrokeshire
A large 5-star guest house in the quiet North Pembrokeshire countryside near Eglwyswrw and Cardigan — a peaceful base.
Tenby, Pembrokeshire
An elegant seafront guest house on Tenby’s Esplanade, with high-quality B&B accommodation and beautiful sea views.
Narberth, Pembrokeshire
A multi-award-winning 5-star Gold Award B&B in beautifully converted 18th-century farm buildings near Narberth.
Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire
A 4-star, family-run B&B in the quiet village of Crundale near Haverfordwest — a peaceful base for the national park.
Tenby, Pembrokeshire
An elegant 18th-century manor house B&B in the picturesque village of St Florence near Tenby — traditional charm with modern comfort.
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire
A traditional 5-star B&B on a working farm near Fishguard, with magnificent views of the Preseli Hills.
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire
A personally run three-star guest house above Goodwick near Fishguard, with en-suite doubles, twins and family rooms, a bar, a garden and a breakfast guests rate…
Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire
A beautiful, quaint guest house in the seaside village of Saundersfoot — a peaceful, comfortable B&B base.
St Davids, Pembrokeshire
A delightful, tranquil B&B just three miles from St Davids, in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park.
Kilgetty, Pembrokeshire
A historic 16th-century farmhouse guest house on a working farm near Kilgetty and Tenby, sleeping up to 12.
Give the first day to the sea. Take a boat out to Skomer for the puffins. Book well ahead: the island takes 250 people a day and there are no Monday boats. The birds arrive in April and most have gone by the end of July. St Davids is worth an evening, a cathedral city the size of a village.
The county is easy to cross, which is what makes a base here work. Inland it is farmland and small market towns; the drama is all at the rim, and from almost anywhere the coast is half an hour away.
The seaside lodging trade in this county goes back to a single decision, taken in Tenby in 1781. The council leased St Julian’s Chapel to a physician from Haverfordwest to build baths and other contrivances. It was the first commercial bathing venture in Pembrokeshire.
People came for their health, not for a holiday. Sea bathing was medicine, and what grew up around it was medical too. Paxton built Laston House on Castle Square to hold them. It held cold and warm baths, a cupping room and bedrooms set aside for invalids.
The naturalist Edward Donovan, touring at the turn of the century, described what happened next in one sentence. Other speculative strangers, he wrote, put up two or three houses on the cliffs for the summer visitors, and then the hotel arose.
That is the whole business in miniature, and it still works the same way. Donovan counted two or three houses on the cliffs. Pigot’s directory found twenty-one lodging-house keepers in Tenby by 1830, and thirty-six by 1844.
The man who turned it into a resort was Sir William Paxton, a banker who arrived in 1802. His bath house on Castle Square opened in 1810 with assembly rooms, a hotel and stables. Two reservoirs came with it, so visitors would never run short. It still stands, and the sales pitch is carved along the parapet in Greek: the sea cleanses all the evils of men.
What Paxton started is now spread the length of the county, and the balance has tipped from the grand to the modest. Laston House stopped being a bath house around 1884, and the three-room farmhouse and the harbour guest house took its place.
Pembrokeshire earns its keep on the beaches. It holds nine of the twenty Blue Flags awarded in Wales for 2026, more than any other county, and no beach here was rated worse than Good. The RNLI patrols thirteen beaches through the summer, more lifeguarded sand than the rest of Wales put together.
Pembrokeshire B&Bs open at £64, from farmhouses inland to harbour rooms at Tenby and Saundersfoot, and quieter, cheaper ones up at Fishguard. They suit walkers, since the Coast Path is never far and the summer buses carry you back. Prefer a room with dinner? See the hotels and inns. Prefer your own kitchen? See the cottages. Book direct with the owner where you can.
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