Pembrokeshire destinations
The county splits into distinct holidays: the family south coast, the wild north, the watersports west and the quiet inland. Pick your place — each guide is written from real local knowledge, with hand-picked stays to match.
Tenby
Pembrokeshire's postcard town: pastel Georgian houses above three superb beaches, a working harbour and medieval walls — the classic Welsh seaside holiday.
Saundersfoot
Big sandy beach, busy little harbour and a proper seaside village centre — Tenby's more relaxed neighbour, three miles up the coast.
St Davids
Britain's smallest city — a cathedral in a hollow, Whitesands Bay up the road, and the wildest, most beautiful corner of the national park all around.
Solva
A perfect natural harbour winding between green hills — pastel cottages, galleries, two good pubs and boats on the tide.
Broad Haven
A wide, west-facing family beach on St Brides Bay with a proper village behind it — sunsets included nightly.
Little Haven
A pocket-sized cove village of pastel cottages and pubs tumbling to the sand — Pembrokeshire in miniature.
Dale
Watersports village on a sheltered bay near St Ann's Head — sailing, paddleboarding, a legendary pub, and the Marloes peninsula's great walks next door.
Marloes
Quiet village behind one of Britain's most beautiful beaches — Marloes Sands — and the boat to Skomer's puffins.
Freshwater East
Dune-backed family bay between Tenby and the Stackpole coast — a quiet base with Barafundle over the headland.
Freshwater West
Pembrokeshire's big-wave beach: vast Atlantic sands, serious surf, film-set fame — wild, beautiful and not for swimming.
Manorbier
A Norman castle above a surfy red-sand bay — Gerald of Wales called it 'the pleasantest spot in Wales' in 1188, and he had a point.
Narberth
Pembrokeshire's foodie market town: independent shops, galleries and serious restaurants on one handsome hilltop high street, twenty minutes from the beaches.
Newport (Trefdraeth)
North Pembrokeshire's gem: a relaxed little town between Carn Ingli mountain and a huge estuary beach, with a food scene that outclasses towns five times its size.
Fishguard & Goodwick
Working harbour town with a arty streak — Lower Town's huddled quay, the last invasion of Britain, and the ferry to Ireland.
Goodwick
Fishguard's harbour-side twin: ferry port, parrog seafront and the gateway to Strumble Head's wild coast.
Haverfordwest
The county town at the crossroads of Pembrokeshire — castle, riverside, rail links, and every beach within half an hour.
Milford Haven
Marina town on one of the world's great natural harbours — Nelson called the Haven one of the finest he'd seen.
Neyland
Marina village on the Cleddau — Brunel's old Atlantic terminus, now a quiet sailing base at the heart of the waterway.
Pembroke
One main street, one mighty castle: the birthplace of Henry VII, moated by a millpond, with the south coast's beaches beyond.
Pembroke Dock
Victorian dockyard town and Ireland ferry port — flying-boat history, waterfront regeneration and a practical base for the south-west.
Angle
End-of-the-road village between two very different shores: sheltered East Angle Bay and the Atlantic drama of West Angle and Freshwater West.
Bosherston & Stackpole
Lily ponds, limestone cliffs and Barafundle Bay — the Stackpole estate packs Pembrokeshire's most photographed corner into one parish.
Amroth
The Coast Path's southern gateway: a long village beach revealing a drowned forest at low tide, with dogs welcome year-round at the western end.