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Folly Farm is a 5 minute drive away. Great day out for the young Un's.even when it rains. There's a huge indoor funfair.

Tenby is great mid week with some decent restaurants and the beaches are very good. Avoid weekends when it's full of stag and hen so's.

Manorbier castle and beach...great for rockpools..go at low tide. Get the boat across to caldey island.

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What's the swimming pool like? Are there age restrictions on the flumes, my 5 year old is a bit of a dare devil and will want to do them all.

Heaps of good beaches and castles. What time of year you going?
Bring a road or cx bike or even a mtb... I'd happily take you round the best bits.

Dont do pond dipping, just by a net from the shop at the same price. The dragon egg hunt was well enjoyed by our 5 yr old. The country and weston band are fun and have the little uns on stage for a song.
Buy an os map take your bike, go find the castle with a care home in the grounds.

Been a few times. Last time 2 weekends ago. The weather will obviously play a big part of what you can or can't do. It's not very weatherproof. You don't go to Wales and expect a desert! We were lucky and had two dry, sunny days. We've also been and had oil drain for a week.

When it first opened it was compared and tried to compete with the Centre Parcs model. Nowhere near as big or crowded.

The pool is good fun, although not as big as Centre Parcs. 3 tube slides and an outdoor rapids type. A lazy river that runs outside. The pool opens odd evenings and there are a lot more locals swimming. We experienced a few groups of youfs. But still not as bad as Centre Parcs.

The indoor adventure centre again is good fun. Think of it as a kiddies ball pit / soft play area. The high ropes, climbing wall and giant trapeze are all paid extra.

The outdoor activities are well run. The woodland high ropes are for older teens or adults. Same for the Medieval Tournament field. Lots of things for the little ones, not tried them though, my boys are too old.

Not eaten in the restaurants, but the pub is friendly enough. Pub quiz on Wednesday and Sunday nights. Not difficult, we've won twice. Good beer!!!!!!

The Wife has done the spa, very,very nicely done. Reasonably value compared to others of the same ilk.

Locally there is lots to do, although the theme attractions like Folly Farm and Oakwood are seasonal. Plenty of beaches, Saundersfoot and Tenby are 20 minutes, the more wild and natural like Manorbier, Broad Haven or Freshwater West are a bit of a drive. 40, 60 & 90 minutes respectively.

Not done any riding there. I did see there are pointers to offsite riding, but no other info, sorry. There bike hire is quite expensive and the golf buggies are eye wateringly so. Advice would be to take your own, or at least a split.

Been with family. It's not too busy, but family restaurant a bit of a pile it high chip place.
Nice setting and golf carts fun.

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When u going Loddrik?

We went last year. Boys at the time 4 &just over a year.
Range of activities for the younger kids wasn't that wide but it's easy to come and go as you please. The kids land rover track is a good place for a recently stabilise free four year old to learn some off road bike skills when that isn't running.

A lot of the good stuff has been picked up above.

Off site:

Tenby lovely beach and lifeboat station went down well
Dinosaur park (lots for a four year-old there and all rides worked off 2p pieces iirc)
Lily pools, forget the name of the place

Haverford West was a nightmare - we tried to find food and parking there in the evening and it was awful to navigate although we did stumble on an awesome curry house on the outskirts that made two over tired hungry children welcome.

Just went in Feb with a 1 & 3 yr old.
Towing then both up the hill in a trailer 2+ times a day certainly gave my legs a work out!

Kids loved the pool and the play area (mostly the circus room upstairs at their age) everything was on lock down one day because of massive storm so got s bit bored.

Can't coment on the other things in the area as mostly closed in Feb.

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Lily pools, forget the name of the place

Bosherton. Walk from there, around the lily ponds to Broad Haven beach. Stunning.

They are going to be building a new trail at the stackpole estate where bosherston is.. theres is even going to be an extrortionately priced race to enter..

http://xcalibremtb.co.uk/routes/pembrokeshire/index.php

If anyone does come visit feel free to give me a shout as i live in the shire.

Thanks

The woods to the back of the park hold a host of bridlepaths,likely to be muddy after recent rains,but good fun on chunky tyres.
We were there back in sept ,lack a bike wash so used the downstairs wet room shower(doubt we were popular with the cleaners after).

Pub was good too guest ales or bottled good n good sausage n mash meal too.

Pembrokeshire is a county of two halves - the predominantly English speaking and busier south and the Welsh speaking, quieter north. Being a northern resident I tend to favour it over the south, but there are some lovely places all over.

Narberth is worth a walk around - not far from Bluestone. If you're going after Easter, Lawrenny Quay has a lovely cafe (the Quayside Cafe).

The Tafarn Sinc pub in Rosebush is worth a look. A bit touristy now but food is ok and there are some good walks/cycling from there.

Newport is in my opinion overrated. Nothing of any interest in Fishguard to speak of. North coast between Fishguard and St. Davids is lovely with some good walks. Porthgain has a pub (the Sloop) and a restaurant both of which do good food.

Abereiddy beach was one of my favourites but I think it was effectively destroyed in the recent storms.

There are some good MTB routes in the county but they're not well publicised. Off the Preselis towards Newport there is some good singletrack but I'm not fit enough to ride it.

The museum at Scolton Manor is quite interesting and could be worth visiting if it's wet.

Be prepared for a bit of a drive if you want to find restaurants - Pembrokeshire can be very quiet out of season.

Rich.

Bigblackshed - think your driving times to some of the beaches are a bit out! Fresh west is about 45 minutes from bluestone.

Pembrokeshire in general is an outdoor county, in that its all beaches, walking etc. This means that when the weather is bad, coming up with ideas of things to do is hard. OP, what time of year are you going?

MTB Biking is sparse, Canaston woods next to bluestone are muddy and limited. The prescelis are a quagmire at the moment. although there are fire roads etc.

The druidstone, which is a pub and restaurant ( which do really good themed feasts on Tuesdays) has probably the best location and view of any drinking/eatery in the UK! Its about 30 to 35 minutes drive from Bluestone.

The beaches in St Brides Bay/northern pembs are more wild/storm beaches than those to the south - although the beaches in the south are steeply shelving so arent so good for children swimming. Marloes is the best beach in Pembs. Cresswell Quay pub (just down the road from Bluestone is very nice, especially if the tide is in). I also second a trip to the lilly ponds at Bosherston - especially if the lillys are in flower.

St Davids is worth a trip - although it can get v busy in the summer - Solva is also nice.

I live in Haverfordwest, and there isnt really alot to do there for tourists - although there are all the essentials eg supermarkets.

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Going in july

I live in Pembroke and most things have been covered. The kids love Folly Farm (5 and 7) we've had season tickets for the last few years. Pembroke Castle is also worth a mooch around, the rest of Pembroke is dire, in July it's full of people wondering what else there is to do away from the castle...the answer is nothing!
I work near the Bosherston Lily Ponds, it's a proper ace place and I love it. We(the National Trust) will also take you kayaking and coasteering from Stackpole Quay for a small(ish) fee...
The woods at Stackpole were hammered in the storms, we had some decent riding in there but until the hundreds of shattered trees are cleared then we don't know what has survived...won't know until after Easter. If you get a dry spell (ha!) then the Preselis ridge is one of my favourite places to ride a bike in the world, but it's a bog fest in places.
Great pizza place in Narberth called Get Stuffed, don't be put off by the name, it does lovely food. There is a stunning farm shop and cafe near Cosherston, they'll cook you anyhting off the meat counter for your lunch!
Look out for Caffle ale, made very local to bluestone, it've very very nice.
Boat trip to Skomer is also great, the puffins should still be there in July...quite pricey and you need to get to Martins Haven very early on a sunny day to get on a boat (8am at the latest) but it's an amazing place.
Or boat trips round Caldey or Ramsey are almost as good.

Hope this helps...

Plenty there thanks lister