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Oak Tree Cottage

Cilgerran
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REF NO. K843
Sleeps 4 · Bedrooms 2
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  • Dog-Friendly
  • No. of Dogs Permitted: max 1
  • Children Welcome
  • Babies Welcome
Overview
If you love wildlife and the great outdoors then you'll go WILD for Oak Tree Cottage - The Cwtch! Located in the heart of the beautiful Wildlife Trust's Teifi Marsh Nature Reserve the cottage is the perfect base for a WILD family adventure or a relaxing couples retreat. Oak Tree Cottage is a self cateringt holiday let that's perfect for those wanting to relax in comfort whilst surrounded by our amazing Welsh wildlife. Small and perfectly formed, the cottage is great for a small family or a couple. Children will love playing in the Cherry Tree Adventure Park, discovering the Willow Maze, exploring our fantastic Nature Trail on foot or two wheels, and meeting our friendly resident Water Buffalo. Adults will immediately unwind to the sounds of nature and enjoy the peace and tranquility of this truly unique setting. Don't forget to enjoy a sumptuous homemade meal at the Glasshouse Restaurant.

Holiday Accommodation Details

Sleeps 2 Adults & 2 Children Well behaved dogs @ £20 each

Open plan lounge/kitchen/dining room, with TV (for DVD use only) electric cooker, fridge and microwave. Bedroom 1, with double bed. Bedroom 2, with bunks. Bathroom, with 3/4 bath, shower over, WC, whb. Garden with bench. Parking.Rent inclusive of electricity and gas central heating. Duvets & linen provided. Friday changeover. 3pm takeover.

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While the cottage is small and basic it has everything needed for a short break with a brilliant location in the heart of the Teifi Marsh Nature reserve. Friendly and helpful staff at the visitor centre. Many woodland birds by the cottage and around the reserve, kingfishers, goosander, water rail etc.
Location of cottage makes it ideal for nature lovers but it is quite expensive for a short break, particularly the service charge.
Fab lil place – loved it! Fascinating to read about the local history on the walks, via the info boards. Would recommend: 🔘 Visitor centre café etc 🔘 Ferry Inn, St Dogmaels (rain or shine) … eat or drink 🔘 Cilgerran – fantastic area in gorge, think you follow signs for ‘riverside parking’ or similar - spectacular (Would like to see an outside tap under kitchen window with hose, to counter muddy dogs and boots) Great stay though, highly recommended!
We had the worst and the best weather – from constant rain and then the hottest day of the year! Altogether a great week for us, and the cottage a great refuge. Wildlife different this time – no kingfisher but our first common scotor, plus a wood mouse and bank vole as near neighbours. Both male and female greater spotted on the feeders in competition with a trio of squirrels. As a base for the coast walks, we did a few. Very muddy and hard work in places, but the coastal path is good and the view excellent. The road to Newport is now finished – it’s taken since last year. As usual the Cwtch was well prepared. Thanks again to the staff for the goodies on arrival. Much appreciated and enjoyed.
Had a lovely three days at Oak Cottage. It is comfortable and well equipped, thank you for the welcome pack, wine and chocolates, much appreciated. Despite many visits to the hides at different times of the day we sadly did not see the kingfishers or the otters. We were rewarded on our last evening of a long distance view of a cuckoo and heard it calling this morning. House martins arrived. It is a nice walk into Cardigan and worth a visit. However if you here on a Sunday and want to eat out, make sure you do it at lunchtime as we could find nowhere does food Sunday evening! Excellent cakes at the visitor centre. Hopefully we’ll be back. Sheena and Chris, Cardiff
I came for a relax away from everyone. It’s been lovely – especially watching the birds (and cheeky squirrels!) on the feeder. They really get through that seed! Other than one trip to the beach – which is a must, in this part of the world, we (me and the dogs) haven’t needed to leave the site – there are plenty of lovely walks. The hides are brilliant! Thank you for the welcome pack – look forward to returning. Sherry, Lexi and Gypsy PS I left plenty of seed in the cupboard under the sink. Enjoy watching them.
Another brief visit – very wet but very enjoyable. Being able to shelter in the hides and watch the wildlife is great. Been treated to another sighting of the elusive otter and also a kingfisher. We’re looking forward to returning in hopefully drier conditions in July. Thanks for the welcome basket.
Would like to thanks all those involved in looking after the cottage and a warm welcome from all staff that work hard in the Wildlife Centre. Thank you for all the goodies in the basket and for the margarine that of all things I forgot from home!! Will look forward to seeing you all again on our stay over the Easter period and a few days earlier this time. Until then thank you again.
Thank you for the basket of goodies and the lovely lovely eggs. We had a super week, no rain for this time of year. Newport is nice on a Mon morning for a small Farmers market, as it 'Parrog' just down the road. Facing the sea and a boat club. Lovely views at Gywbert, and a nice new café overlooking the beach at ABERPORTH called 'CWTCH' (go down steps to it). Onto Mwnt but we thought the climbing was too much for our age. The Wildlife Centre has been lovely, and nice to see so many children enjoying the playground and the walk. So much better than TV for them. We will be back in Spring, to see all the wild plants and flowers. The 'Salutation Inn' at Felindre Farchog, do a fabulous Sunday lunch. Sandra and Rob
Sadly, we've just come to the end of a comfortable 1 week stay here. This is our first visit so we were pleasantly surprised to find the basket with win, tea, coffee etc awaiting us - so after our 5 hour journey, we were immediately able to make tea :). We were also delighted to receive 6 large brown eggs. The weather didn't really 'play ball' and we didn't have any visitors to the bird table - just some great tits and a squirrel (grey!) and a crow was sometimes observed on the fence. However, we were very fortunate to see a kingfisher, while in the kingfisher hide. Friends from Haverfordwest visited us on our second day and, in the evening we went for an evening meal in Cardigan. We went to the Shampon Royal India restaurant housed in a former French (I believe) fishing trawler. They had an extensive menu and the waiting staff were attentive and friendly. We were surprised on leaving to notice that they had a food hygiene rating of only 1. Maybe this was a consequence of being on a former trawler, but don't let that put you off! Our last day started out 'hissing with rain' but mid-morning it passed over and we went to Cenarth Falls. Very reasonable car parking (£2.50/day). During the day we had cream tea at The Salmon Leap, right next to the car park. Again, very reasonable prices and the stand-in (for the summer season) was very friendly and chatty. Afterwards we spent an hour (or perhaps longer) at the National Coracle museum. Martin the owner gave us a very informative and interesting preliminary talk before leaving us to our own devices. This including visiting the 17th Century Corn Mill included in the entry price. All in all, a very interesting visit. There are many things we didn't have time to do, so I'll be surprised if we don't make a return visit - perhaps in late Autumn to see the salmon leaping at Cenarth. I almost forgot, on one day we walked along the Wetland Trail to Cardigan. While there we took a 45' river trip from Price Charles Quay (£5/head). Very informative and worthwhile but perhaps because we're above a 'certain age' we couldn't always hear the commentary above the engine noise. Afterwards had lunch in The Grosnevor, just above the quay. (PizzaTipi - as recommended by others) was closed at the time. Alan and Sheila Crooks
Our second visit to this lovely cottage - enjoyed it so much the year before we stayed for two weeks! Lots of fabulous wildlife - reed warblers, tree creeper, pair of rail kingfisher and the ever present grey heron all spotted at the Kingfisher hide (along with teal, mallard, moorhens, etc). Kingfishers also spotted along river near the sluice gate at Cardigan bridge (several times) with curlews along the mud flats. You don't even have to leave the cottage - the bird feeders also provided lots of interest with visits from jay, woodpecker and selection of tits including great, blue, coal and either marsh or willow (very hard to distinguish!). We would recommend the beaches at Mwnt, Tresaith and Llangrannog. All excellent with all amenities required! Tresaith is special with it's waterfall and Mwnt particularly good for spotting dolphins from the hill top. We were very lucky to spot very active pods on our two visits to Mwnt. A visit to Pizzatipi is a must - outdoor wood fired pizzas on the river in Cardigan over the road from Castle. Delicious! Fire pit very handy for those colder evenings! Also lunches at the reserve's visitor centre are varied and once again, delicious! Finally, a big thank you for the welcome pack and to all the staff and volunteers at the centre/reserve. Everyone so friendly and helpful - see you next year! PS. How could I forget! Another highlight was taking Kevin and Pollyanna the llamas for a walk! A lovely, unusual activity for the centre to offer. We certainly didn't expect to be taking llamas for a walk when we were thinking of things to do this holiday!
We arrived to a fantastic welcome basket of wine, coffee, tea, biscuit, waffles and chocolates - thank you. The reserve is superb at night and we sat our every evening (but one). Our son loved the back pack we hired from the reserve and completed every single activity within it. He also loved the family/child activities hosted by the reserve. His favourite thing was meeting the 'chicken man' and discussing the plan for collecting eggs, letting them out. We spent one day all around the reserve and were lucky enough to see a peregrine falcon on the gorge walk. Please note, this is steep. We found the beaches from St. Davids (Whitesands) the best for the surf. St Davids has a good vibe and nice pubs/coffee shops on both wet and sunny days. Whitesands beach car park is £5 but for the whole day. Beaches after here were cheaper on parking and all gd for bodyboarding. We personally didn't think much of Fishguard. Newport has a nice beach which you can drive onto. Mwnt and Penbryn are great beaches and fantastic for evening barbeques. We also visited New Quay for superb crabbing (found on-street parking after car parks). Great bike rides at National Trust Llanerchaeron and this took us to another great crabbing venue (Aberaeron). The farm at Llanerchaeron was also great for our son who adores animals of any sort. Thousand Islands fishing trip for mackerel was superb father and son first fishing trip and so highly recommend them (St Davids). Also do fantastic trips to islands 5*. We had a reasonable but superb meal at the tea/coffee shop just along main Cardigan high street at Coffee #1. They also have wifi which is great for weather updates. We had Abdul's Indian cuisine which was very good. We also ate fish and chips from the chip shop at the top of the road from the cinema (Cardigan high street). The second village shop in Cilgerran sells lovely mean and was handy throughout the week. We found the freezer would not open but were lucky to have only lost ice cream to this mishap. The cottage has been very comfortable and it has been bliss without TV (We actually read our books + watched some DVDs from past). Downsides to the cottages for us - no iron, no mop (I wanted to wash the floor after one wet/cold muddy day) and final small things - the main bathroom floor gets wet from pipework at the end of the bath this wets floor no matter what you do. Person against the wall in main bedroom, but this only affected me as hubby took openside. The cottage was perfect to meet our holiday needs and we will recommend to others (thanks to our friend who told us about their stay which then made us book that night). A fantastic family holiday which meant we got to explore the west of Wales and discover lots of great places.
We have had a very enjoyable week here. The weather has been variable, but days tended to brighten up in the afternoon/early evening. The best beach we visited was at Llangrannog - the second beach there is accessible at low tide from the first beach, or via a short walk over the coastal path. The beach at Mwnt was also good (but a lot busier). Definitely worth filling up the bird feeders. We had a regular family of blue tits + great tits, but also a coal tit, nuthatch and family of Great Spotted Woodpeckers. Thank you for a lovely week.
Lovely quiet location in a cosy, comfortable cottage. Plenty to see and do in the area - great walks - both along the coastal path as well as inland. Wildlife Trust Properties such as Roman Gold Mine at Dolaucothi well worth the drive - and excellent café there as well. Thanks for the welcome eggs, wine and choccies...
Our first visit here! What a lovely welcome of wine, tea, coffee, etc - 2nd especially thank you to the "the girls" for the lovely fresh eggs! Found the cottage through our membership of our local Wildlife Trust in Worcestershire. Perfect location with an amazing reserve on our doorstep and beautiful beaches close by too. Visit Poppits beach, the National Trust beaches at Mwnt and Penbryn - and (highlight) dolphins off the harbour in New Quay! Good food + estuary/sea view at The Ship in St. Dogmaels, Pentre Arms in Llangrannog + the Wildlife Centre too of course! Thank you! We'll be back!
We used the cottage as a base for our 2 night trip to Skomer Island. FABULOUS! A must go even if you just do a day trip. The rest of the week we stayed locally. Loved the cottage + the wildlife. Good fun canoeing from Slate cottage (thankyou Rhys) +a fabulous dolphin trip from A Bay to Remember. We saw bottlenose dolphins and porpoises. Mwnt Beach lovely. Big thank you to everyone on the reserve for being so friendly and helpful. We'll be back! Xxxx PS. Don't forget to feed the birds (food under sink) - you'll be rewarded :) Cheryl, Geoff, Rachael and Jack
We had a lovely weekend at Oak Tree cottage. Was a brilliant place, great for our 2 year son and us alike. We're planning on staying again! Highly recommend for a family friendly break
I would highly recommend this beautiful cosy cottage to stay in for a holiday or weekend away. Set in a nature reserve and no tv or wifi so you can truly relax and get back to nature ♡
Cute and cosy, the perfect place to get away from it all.
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