Penally Abbey
You would need a heart of stone not to be charmed by the creeper-covered facade of this Strawberry Hill Gothic house, with its pretty ogee windows, decorative eaves and hilltop position above gardens tumbling to the sea. More
Good Hotel Guide Review
You would need a heart of stone not to be charmed by the creeper-covered facade of this Strawberry Hill Gothic house, with its pretty ogee windows, decorative eaves and hilltop position above gardens tumbling to the sea. Inside doesn’t disappoint, either: interior designer Melanie Boissevain and husband Lucas have created stylish, relaxing spaces where antiques mix with French market finds, and blowsy wallpapers with Persian rugs. There are books on the piano, a fire in the sitting room, a cosy bar and a sunroom – take afternoon tea here or on the terrace before a walk ‘along the fabulous South Beach to Tenby’. The ‘splendid food’ is Modern British cooking with both ‘variety and taste’. It might include pan-fried scallops with onion sauce, and lamb rump with couscous; fish is landed at Tenby, strawberries from the farm down the road. The romantic dining room, with Arcadian-print wallpaper and candlelight, has views over the bay to the Gower Peninsula. ‘Very comfortable’ bedrooms are calming spaces of soft colours and pretty fabrics; some with a window seat, coach house rooms are more Scandi. All have indulgent marble bathrooms. (ML)
Hotel details
Address
Penally
Tenby
Pembrokeshire
SA70 7PY
Wales
Telephone
01834 843033
Bedrooms
12. 4 in coach house, 2 on ground floor.
Open
all year.
Facilities
drawing room, bar, sunroom, restaurant (vegetarian menu), function room, in-room TV (Freeview), ‘limited bandwith’ Wi-Fi, civil wedding licence, in-room treatments, terrace, 1-acre lawns.
Background music
'very gentle' in bar and restaurant.
Children
all ages welcomed, over-3s on extra bed £25.
Dogs
allowed in coach house bedrooms (not unattended, £15 a night), bar, sunroom, not in restaurant.
Credit cards
MC, Visa.
Prices
B&B doubles from £155. À la carte £50 (vegetarian £35). 1-night bookings refused only at Christmas and major sporting event weekends.
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