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A warm welcome awaits you at our traditional stonework self catering cottages set in the unspoilt peaceful countryside of West Wales.

For Couples

Cwmiar Self-Catering Holiday Cottages are not merely a base to come back to every evening, although, of course, you can use your cottage as a luxury hotel suite if you wish, but it is a lovely location in its own right. More than one of our guests has described it as 'second to Heaven', which is why we love it here.

[View of Cwmiar from the mountain, shows the bracken in the foreground more clearly and the trees at the side of the homestead]

The farmstead (including the cottages) nestles in its own valley (Cwmiar means Valley of the Hen - the name of the stream which runs through the lower fields; Cwmceiliog - further round the mountain - is Valley of the Cockerel, after its own stream). A suntrap, sheltered from the wind, it is very beautiful to just walk or laze around by the millpond or the woods next to it, watching nature, sitting reading a book or the newspaper, or perhaps having a barbeque and a drink or two. In the case of Sunset View Cottage you'll be able to enjoy that in your own garden admiring the scenery across the Teifi Valley and open countryside beyond.

The Mill House is probably the most romantic cottage to stay in; it is extremely old - the transition between a single and two-storey building - it has a spacious, galleried king size double bedroom, which overlooks the open plan living room with its impressive inglenook fireplace.

[Guests sitting outside The Mill House with grass in front, fluffy white clouds in a blue sky and the woodland on the other side of the valley in the background]

We are extremely lucky to have Cwmiar as our home, and like many of our guests we find every season has its own wonderful beauty, because everything is so natural. That special green of the new shoots coming through in spring, when the lambs are gambolling about and the ponies bring their foals down from further up the mountain to shelter in the valley, and our pretty Welsh Black cows are bringing their adorable calves, like fluffy teddy bears, into the world.

Then in the summer there is the heady scent of gorse, and the evening sunshine turning everything to gold. As autumn approaches the heather turns the mountain to purple, whilst in the valley below the early morning mist waits to be burnt off by the sun - absolutely glorious. A little later on the leaves start to turn from green to golden brown and the wood on the other side of the valley is adorned in such an array of colour it is a spectacle on its own.

[Looking down on Sunset View cottage, the farmhouse and Mountain View cottage with the mountain behind, through the trees from the field above, the sky is blue with fluffy white clouds]

Then those cold crisp days of winter, when the sun shines and you can wrap up warm and go out for a walk and it feels great to be alive; even when it rains and the mountain is draped in cloud like a mysterious shroud, you can light a fire and curl up on the sofa with a good book in the knowledge that the hustle and bustle of daily life is a million miles away. Perhaps the rain will turn to snow and you can go out onto the yard and build a snowman!

[A snowscene of the farmyard and farmhouse and cottages from the field above]

In order to entice you to try one of our Self Catering Farm Holiday Cottages, we are happy to offer you a 10% reduction (outside school holidays) and if both of our smaller cottages are booked and one of the others is free, then you can have it for the same price. We look forward to welcoming you here soon.

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