Eco lodge accommodation in Wales

Our Eco Lodge in Pembrokeshire provides you with comfy and friendly accommodation in west Wales. The Preseli Venture Eco Lodge is Wales only 5 star activity centre built with sustainability in mind.

We’re proud to be Pembrokeshire’s only 5 star activity centre!

The Preseli Venture Eco lodge provides an excellent base for exploring Pembrokeshire, with easy access to the South of the county, the Preseli Hills, as well as the North Pembrokshire coastline and Ceredigion. You’re welcome to join us on an accommodation and meals only basis, or opt into a range of adventure activities – the choice is yours.

North Pembrokeshire location

Our eco lodge is located deep in the heart of the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, Wales, right on the inspirational coastline, and is the perfect venue for individuals, couples, and for group accommodation in Wales. The Preseli Venture lodge provides you with comfy and friendly accommodation and excellent hospitality.

Eco Lodge prices and availability

All of our weekend adventure events include accommodation and meals at the lodge, and the lodge is also very much open for business on a MID WEEK basis when we can cater for individuals, couples, families, schools and colleges, and groups.

The Preseli Venture Eco Lodge provides an excellent base for exploring Pembrokeshire, with easy access to the South of the county, the Preseli Hills, as well as the North Pembrokeshire coastline and Ceredigion. You’re welcome to join us on an accommodation and meals only basis, or opt into a range of adventure activities – the choice is yours.

We offer timetabled mid week adventure events such as the Pembrokeshire adventure holiday for adults and our range of sea kayaking holidays, however, we’d love to have you along for any mid week date . Please do call on 01348 837709or contact us if you have any dates in mind and we can check availability.

Prices for FULLY CATERED LODGE ACCOMMODATION per person, per night

• from £39 lodge accommodation and breakfast

includes use of all lodge facilities, plus a range of breakfast choices including a cooked Welsh breakfast.

• from £59 lodge accommodation and all meals

includes use of all lodge facilities, breakfast as above and home cooked lunch and evening meal.

Under 16′s are priced at £49 for a nights lodge stay including breakfast, lunch and supper.

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Eco Lodge facilities

Lodge facilities include:

• wireless broadband
• dedicated and friendly hospitality staff
• private licensed bar
• drying room
• pool table and bonfire site
• excellent music system – plug in your own ipod or use our Spotify premium account (hook up on facebook with Libby at Preseli Venture before your visit and you’ll be able to access your playlists via our account!)
• teas, coffee and cold drinks available to help yourself to at all times
• unique coastal location, with a 10 minute walk through the bluebell woods to the local sandy beach.

The Preseli Venture Eco Lodge is located deep in the heart of the West Wales countryside overlooking a beautiful wooded valley and is set in 3 acres of grounds. It’s just a one-mile walk through National Trust woodland to Abermawr, our local beach – stunning, unspoilt; perfect for moonlit walks and a place where seals sometimes sleep.

We have a great new facility with a restyled bar, dining room and lounge, beautiful traditional Pembrokeshire courtyard area with stunning views down the valley to the sea – our nearest bay at Abermawr, lots of showers and toilets in our new ‘wetrooms’, additional double rooms and a drying room.

The lodge provides for all your creature comforts and accommodates up to 38 people in comfortable shared bedrooms that sleep between 2 and 8 people. All beds are fully made up on your arrival with sheets, duvets and spare blankets.

We have a fully licensed bar, which stocks all of your favourite tipples as well as some interesting local brews! If you have any special requests for special beverages then please let us know and we’ll try our best to get some in for you.

The lodge stays warm and cosy at all times, courtesy of our ground source heat pump and our wood burning stove. You’ll find that nothing beats that apres coasteer feeling when you find yourself fresh out of a hot shower, glass of wine in hand, lounging in front of a glowing stove in our cosy lounge.

We have a courtyard in which to enjoy the sunsets, a sheltered bonfire site for nights under the stars, a large bar and dining area with pool table and awesome sound system. And all this in the middle of a beautiful coastal National Park – your neighbours are a field of sheep on one side and cows on the other!

All the food served at the lodge is home cooked, delicious and wholesome and ingredients are sourced locally wherever possible. We can happily cater for the vegetarian diet.

What is ‘eco’ about the adventure lodge?

Living, working and playing as we do in Britain’s only coastal National Park we can’t help but be aware of our impact on the environment, and as such we have tried to make sure that it is as positive as possible. On a fundamental level we are guided by our aim;

Preseli Venture exists and aims to meet the needs of our clients, in as environmentally sound a way as possible, at a profit, whilst providing trade for local organisations, and jobs for people living locally.

With this in mind – the new build of the lodge, and the renovations of the existing lodge, provided the opportunity to invest considerably into making the lodge a much ‘greener’ place. We don’t claim to be perfect, and we don’t claim to have all of the answers, however we do try to make choices with the environment, sustainability, and people in mind.

The ecolodge has been independently reviewed by Green Traveller coeditor and freelance ethical travel writer Catherine Mack, who found the lodge to have ‘impressive eco-credentials’ - read the full review here

Saving Energy

The Preseli Venture lodge has been built with energy saving considerations at the forefront; it’s built from an Insulating Concrete Formwork (ICF) system called BecoWallForm, which is based on large hollow lightweight block components which lock together, without intermediate bedding materials, to provide a formwork system. The building achieves a U-value – the measurement of heat lost – of 0.19W/m2K, compared to the current building standard of 0.35W/m2K. The building is therefore very highly insulating and by its construction also extremely air-tight with no heat lost through draughts.

The other very important low carbon factor for the new lodge is the ground source heat pump which we have installed, and which provides 100% of our heating and hot water. The ground source heat pumps uses a buried ground  loop which transfers heat from the ground into the buildings to provide space heating and to pre-heat domestic hot water. This system is very efficient, providing carbon savings to the tune of:

• Fuel Displaced CO2 saving per year
• Gas 1.2 tonnes
• Electricity 7 tonnes
• Oil 1.8 tonnes
• Solid 6.5 tonnes

Source: EST

The heat pump does require electricity to drive the compressor and pump for the ground loop, and all of our electricity is sourced from ecotricity, a key investor in renewable energy. Lighting accounts for approximately 25% of national power generation and so to further cut electricity consumption, in the majority of the lodge we’ve opted for revolutionary LED lights – which are more expensive, but they last a really really long time, they are incredibly energy efficient, emitting more light per watt than other bulbs, and they contain no harmful chemicals (low energy bulbs can contain mercury). Additionally, all of our bathrooms and our drying room are fitted with high efficiency heat exchange units that recover up to 95% of the heat from the extracted air, and transfers it to the incoming fresh air.

Dealing with Waste

As unpleasant as it sounds – dealing with the ‘human’ waste created by up to 38 guests in a rural coastal location which is completely off grid in terms of sewerage was always going to be a challenge! A £14,000 investment bought us the Klargester BioDisc system, which uses a system that comprises of rotating a biomass into and out of the sewage effluent. The biomass grows due to being in contact with the natural oxygen in the air and then with the bacteria in the effluent. Essentially the Klargester is a complete sewage treatment plant, which means that we can be confident that the waste released into the environment is completely and thoroughly treated, free from solids and pollutants. We’re constantly considering our water usage, and our new bathrooms and showers have been built with water saving features as standard, including dual flush toilets and low flow showerheads.

Looking to the future…

Ultimately, Preseli Venture would like to go ‘off grid’ for our energy needs, and the next step for us will be to generate our own electricity through wind or sun. We’re developing a system for rainwater harvesting to take advantage of our large roof area, and we’ll be able to store this water and use it for the myriad of day to day jobs that require water which we currently source from the tap. And also, it was always our dream to have a solar powered hot tub, for the use of our guests (and us too, but not all at the same time I guess!) after a long hard day of adventuring. All of these plans require a little capital investment – watch this space.

Like more information?

Please do call us on 01348 837709  or contact us for more details about our eco lodge accommodation, we’d really love to have you along for a stay in Pembrokeshire soon!