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
from £509/week
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Pembrokeshire beaches with a pub or café nearby
The best beach days here have a pub at the end of them. Swim, dry off, walk five minutes, eat something. It's a specific and entirely reasonable thing to plan a day around, and this page exists to make it findable.
Every beach below has a pub, café or restaurant we hold within about a kilometre — a walk rather than a drive. Some of those are proper coastal inns with a garden looking at the water; some are a seasonal kiosk that shuts at four. The individual beach pages say which.
Out of season, ring first. A café that's heaving in August may be closed Mondays to Wednesdays in January, and there are few things bleaker than a wet walk to a locked door.
How this list was made: Beaches with a pub, bar, café or restaurant in our database within 1 kilometre. Owner-operated venues are excluded, as everywhere on this site. 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. 28 of the 45 beaches we cover qualify.
Broad Haven
St Brides Bay's most useful family beach: wide flat sand, lifeguards in season, and everything you need within a minute of your towel.
Nearest pub, café or restaurant 300 m
Cwm-yr-Eglwys
A tiny sheltered cove with the ruined bell tower of a storm-wrecked church standing on the beach — the most photographed spot on this coast.
Nearest pub, café or restaurant 200 m
Dogs all yearMarloes Sands
A vast, wild strand of folded rock and clean sand — many regulars' pick for the most beautiful beach in Wales.
Nearest pub, café or restaurant 750 m
Traeth Llyfn
A big sandy cove between Abereiddi and Porthgain, reached by a steel staircase bolted to the cliff — and cut off at high tide.
Nearest pub, café or restaurant 750 m
West Angle Bay
Sand, outstanding rockpools and a café at the mouth of the Milford Haven waterway — the best low-tide beach for children in the county.
Nearest pub, café or restaurant 100 m
Whitesands Bay (Porth Mawr)
St Davids' big Blue Flag surf beach beneath Carn Llidi — sand, swell and sunsets at the end of Wales.
Nearest pub, café or restaurant 100 m
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.
Nearest pub, café or restaurant 350 m
Dogs all yearBroad Haven South
White sand, Church Rock offshore and the lily ponds behind — Bosherston's beautiful back door to the sea.
Nearest pub, café or restaurant 850 m
Caerfai Bay
St Davids' walk-to beach: purple-tinged sandstone cliffs, a steep flight of steps and clean sand at low water.
Nearest pub, café or restaurant 850 m
Coppet Hall
Saundersfoot's quieter neighbour through the first tunnel — parking, a serious café, and the same lovely sand.
Nearest pub, café or restaurant 300 m
Dale Beach
The sailing village's sheltered shingle-and-sand beach on the Milford Haven waterway — flat water, boats and a pub on the front.
Nearest pub, café or restaurant 50 m
Freshwater East
A sheltered, dune-backed crescent facing south — easy parking, safe paddling and far fewer people than Tenby.
Nearest pub, café or restaurant 700 m
Goodwick Sands
A sheltered town beach in Fishguard Bay beside the ferry harbour — handy, calm, and a good dolphin-watching spot.
Nearest pub, café or restaurant 200 m
Little Haven
A small tidal cove wrapped in a steep village of pubs and cottages — lovely at low water, gone completely at high tide.
Nearest pub, café or restaurant 350 m
Lydstep Haven
A wide sheltered south-facing bay between Tenby and Manorbier, sitting inside a private holiday park — check access before you go.
Nearest pub, café or restaurant 300 m
Manorbier Bay
Red-tinged sand, a proper castle backdrop and a dependable beach break — the south coast's most characterful bay.
Nearest pub, café or restaurant 500 m
Dogs all yearNewgale Sands
Two miles of open sand and learner-friendly surf behind a great pebble bank — St Brides Bay's big beach.
Nearest pub, café or restaurant 450 m
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.
Nearest pub, café or restaurant 950 m
Nolton Haven
A small, easy cove with parking right by the sand — the low-effort option on this stretch of St Brides Bay.
Nearest pub, café or restaurant 900 m
Dogs all yearPoppit Sands
The Coast Path's northern terminus: wide Teifi-estuary sands with dunes, lifeguards and dolphin chances offshore.
Nearest pub, café or restaurant 850 m
Porthmelgan
The quiet cove ten minutes north of Whitesands — sand at low tide, no facilities, and currents that deserve respect.
Nearest pub, café or restaurant 850 m
Pwllgwaelod
A small sheltered cove on the west side of Dinas Island, with parking, a pub and the easiest good walk in north Pembrokeshire.
Nearest pub, café or restaurant 500 m
Saundersfoot Beach
Huge, safe, gently-shelving village sand — one of Wales's classic family beaches, with the harbour alongside.
Nearest pub, café or restaurant 250 m
Stackpole Quay
Reputedly Britain's smallest harbour, with a National Trust car park, café and toilets — and the start of the walk to Barafundle.
Nearest pub, café or restaurant 250 m
Tenby Castle Beach
The small beach between Castle Hill and St Catherine's Island — rockpools, the lifeboat station, and a low-tide walk to the fort.
Nearest pub, café or restaurant 100 m
Tenby North Beach
The postcard one: harbour, Goscar Rock and sheltered sand beneath the pastel town.
Nearest pub, café or restaurant 150 m
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.
Nearest pub, café or restaurant 450 m
Wiseman's Bridge
The quiet middle beach on the Amroth–Saundersfoot tramway walk: pebbles at the top, wide firm sand below, pub on the sea front.
Nearest pub, café or restaurant 900 m
Where to stay near these beaches
Places we’ve linked to one or more of the beaches above.
Best Sea View
Tenby · Sleeps 4
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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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Best Luxury Stay
Manorbier · Sleeps 4
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Elegant lodges with private hot tubs, fast Wi-Fi and EV charging at Manorbier, minutes from the castle, the beach and Tenby.
5.0 · 55 reviews on Hoseasons
from £685/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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