It all started here. In the tiny, remote, seaside village of Abercastle in Pembrokeshire. Whilst the nation was awash with bad perms, E.T was desperately trying to phone home and Michael Jacksons Thriller was tearing through the charts - something special found its beginning.
A smaller version of what we've come to know in recent years, our first brochure offered a collection of only 34 holiday homes across Pembrokeshire.
Roy Hopson, a local artist from Fishguard, kindly provided line drawings for the early brochures (pre-photograph times!) before Elizabeth Haines become our main artist.
Guests booking a holiday automatically became a member of our Coastal Cottages Club allowing them to take advantage of discounts and more at many Pembrokeshire attractions, activity centres and restaurants.
In just 4 years, our cottage collection had grown to over 100 fantastic holiday homes available to rent.
E299 in Fishguard.
Joint promotion with National Trust. CCP donated 5% of bookings by National Trust members to Enterprise Neptune to help preserve the landscape.
In the centenary year of the RSPB, we donated 5% of all bookings to the special fund set up to help care for the local gannet population.
Using a mixture of Wales Tourist Board & Coastal Cottage grading, all properties for let were given a grade between 1 and 5.
We featured in the BBC programme, Holiday 90.
In less than ten years, we had significantly grown our collection to 270 holiday cottages.
Moved to Carreg Samson.
Our CEO Sophie Evans met Her Majesty the Queen and Prince Philip at an event.
We moved to Haverfordwest riverside.
Website launch.
In 1998, we went computerised. Before that, everything was done by hand!
On 16th March 2006, we moved to Coastal House.
We launched our sister company, Coasty, specialising in the sales of characterful properties across Pembrokeshire.
We launched our Concierge service, a team dedicated to helping our guests plan activity itineraries, schedule things to do and recommending places to eat.
In 2021, we said goodbye to our traditional brochure and welcomed in a new-look magazine.
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