Tenby · Sleeps 8
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Lakeside luxury lodges at St Florence, a few miles inland from Tenby, with private verandas and hot tubs overlooking the water.
4.9 · 219 reviews on Hoseasons
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Dog-friendly beaches in Pembrokeshire
The thing to understand about dogs on Pembrokeshire beaches is that most restrictions are seasonal, not permanent. The usual pattern is a ban between 1 May and 30 September on the popular, lifeguarded stretches, and free rein the rest of the year. Turn up at Whitesands in February and nobody minds; turn up in July and you'll be moved on.
The beaches below are the ones that welcome dogs all year round. They tend to be the coves rather than the resort beaches — which suits most dog walkers anyway, because they're quieter and there's more to sniff.
Two things that catch people out. Restrictions are enforced by signs at the access points and they do change, so read the board rather than trusting any website including this one. And several of these beaches sit below grazed clifftops, where a lead is not optional whatever the beach itself allows.
How this list was made: Beaches whose dog policy, as recorded on their own page, permits dogs throughout the year rather than restricting them in season. It is worked out from our own data every time this page is built, not maintained by hand — so it stays in step with the individual beach guides. 10 of the 45 beaches we cover qualify.
Dogs all yearBarafundle Bay
The golden cove with no road — half a mile's clifftop walk from Stackpole Quay, and regularly voted among Britain's best beaches.
Dogs welcome all year (on leads on the approach paths near livestock).
Dogs all yearFreshwater West
Wales's premier surf beach: huge Atlantic sands, dunes, film fame — and genuinely dangerous swimming. Walk it, surf it, respect it.
Dogs welcome all year.
Dogs all yearMarloes Sands
A vast, wild strand of folded rock and clean sand — many regulars' pick for the most beautiful beach in Wales.
Dogs welcome all year.
Dogs all yearAbereiddi & the Blue Lagoon
Black sand, a flooded slate quarry of improbable blue-green, and coasteering's most famous jump-off.
Dogs welcome all year.
Dogs all yearAmroth Beach
A long low-tide beach at the Coast Path's start, with a 7,000-year-old drowned forest under the sand and a year-round dog end.
Western end welcomes dogs all year; eastern bathing section restricted in season.
Dogs all yearBroad Haven South
White sand, Church Rock offshore and the lily ponds behind — Bosherston's beautiful back door to the sea.
Dogs welcome all year.
Dogs all yearNewgale Sands
Two miles of open sand and learner-friendly surf behind a great pebble bank — St Brides Bay's big beach.
Central section restricted 1 May – 30 Sep; northern and southern ends welcome dogs all year.
Dogs all yearNewport Sands (Traeth Mawr)
The north's golden mile across the Nevern estuary — big sky, big sand, dogs welcome on the main sweep all year.
Dogs welcome all year on the main beach; seasonal rules apply near the estuary/Parrog side — check signage.
Dogs all yearPoppit Sands
The Coast Path's northern terminus: wide Teifi-estuary sands with dunes, lifeguards and dolphin chances offshore.
Zoned: restrictions on the main bathing area in season; estuary end year-round — check signage.
Dogs all yearTenby South Beach
A mile and a half of dune-backed sand towards Giltar Point, with Caldey Island floating offshore — Tenby's family workhorse.
Northern (town) section restricted in season; southern stretch towards Giltar welcomes dogs all year.
Where to stay near these beaches
Places we’ve linked to one or more of the beaches above.
Best Sea View
Tenby · Sleeps 4
Hot tubSea view
Family-run boutique glamping on a headland inside the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, with sea views along the coastline near Tenby.
4.8 · 51 reviews on Hoseasons
from £495/week
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Tenby · Sleeps 4
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Handbuilt micro-lodges tucked into wild meadows and farmland a stone's throw from the south Pembrokeshire coast, near Tenby.
4.9 · 15 reviews on Hoseasons
from £435/week
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Newport (Trefdraeth) · Sleeps 4
Holiday park in 55 acres of riverside parkland around a historic manor house, a mile from Newport and its beach on the north coast.
4.8 · 41 reviews on Hoseasons
from £325/week
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Tenby · Sleeps 6
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Yurts, treehouses, hideaways and geodomes reached by a woodland path at St Florence, a few miles from Tenby.
4.6 · 38 reviews on Hoseasons
from £479/week
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Amroth · Sleeps 8
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Holiday park in the grounds of a historic castle directly on Amroth's Blue Flag beach, with an outdoor heated pool.
3.0 · 3 reviews on Hoseasons
from £415/week
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