The beach proudly flies the European Blue Flag and the wide expanse of fine white sand curving towards the remote rocky headland of St Davids has been rated one of the best beaches in Britain by the Good Beach Guide.

Garn Llidi is a towering dramatic volcanic outcrop, surf pounds into the bay and the Coastal Path takes you through Iron Age fields and onto the peninsula settlement at St Davids Head. St Davids Golf Course, the Whitesands Bay Hotel and a beachside shop (open six months of the year), makes the bay a self-sufficient community. The exciting Thousand Islands boat trip leaves from the beach, and St Davids is under two miles away.