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Solva · Sleeps 4 · 2 beds
Dog friendlySea viewWalk to beachNear a pub
First-floor loft on Lower Solva's main street, thirty seconds from the harbour and both pubs.
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View stay →Solva
A perfect natural harbour winding between green hills — pastel cottages, galleries, two good pubs and boats on the tide.
Lower Solva is one of the prettiest village scenes in Wales: a fjord-like inlet snakes inland between bracken hills, and a single street of colour-washed cottages, galleries and pubs runs down to the boats. At high tide the harbour brims; at low tide children chase crabs across the mud and the boats lean over to rest.
Walk the Gribin ridge between harbour and sea for the classic view, drop to the Iron Age fort site, and carry on along the Coast Path to St Davids (one of the best short sections in the park). The village does small pleasures well — crab sandwiches, a pint outside the Harbour Inn or the Ship, woodfired pizza nights, and the kind of evening quiet that made you book a cottage in the first place. St Davids is ten minutes away for cathedral days and Whitesands surf.
Where to stay in Solva
Lower Solva for the harbour-village dream (book very early; supply is tiny); Upper Solva for sea views over St Brides Bay and easier parking.
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Also consider
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.