Preseli Venture Lodge

Our 5 star eco lodge is located deep in the heart of the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, Wales, right on the inspirational coastline, the 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.

The Preseli Venture Eco Lodge is West Wales' only 5 star activity centre, and as such can offer you a standard of accommodations which, according to Visitwales, is:

 'Exceptional with a degree of luxury'

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 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, however, we'd love to have you along for any mid week date if you have a group of 6 or more. Please do call or email if you have any dates in mind and we can check availability. 

THE PRESELI VENTURE ECO LODGE

We have completely refurbished and enlarged our existing lodge.   The lodge has just had its Visitwales grading visit and is now one of only two 5 STAR Activity Centres in Wales.

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.

For our corporate clients the Preseli Venture Lodge offers absolute privacy and a refreshing break from the usual conference room. Get away from the norm and boost your team's creativity and productivity on one of our corporate events and employee incentives programmes or one of our activity conferences.

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.

Saving Energy

The Preseli Venture lodge has been built with evergy 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 loopwhich 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:

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.

To read more about how we consider the environment in our day to day activities click here.

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