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Our History

Explore our 40 year heritage

 
1982

The beginning

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.

1984

First Brochure Published

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.

1980-something

Club Membership

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. 

1986

100+ Cottage Collection

In just 4 years, our cottage collection had grown to over 100 fantastic holiday homes available to rent. 

1988

AA Welsh Holiday Cottage of the Year

E299 in Fishguard. 

1988

Enterprise Neptune

Joint promotion with National Trust. CCP donated 5% of bookings by National Trust members to Enterprise Neptune to help preserve the landscape. 

1989

RSPB Promotion

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. 

1989

Cottage Grading System Introduced

Using a mixture of Wales Tourist Board & Coastal Cottage grading, all properties for let were given a grade between 1 and 5. 

1990

Holiday 90

We featured in the BBC programme, Holiday 90.

1990

270 Cottage Collection

In less than ten years, we had significantly grown our collection to 270 holiday cottages. 

19-something

Our Second Home

Moved to Carreg Samson.

1995

Winner Schroders Wales Tourism Award

1995

A Royal Welcome

Our CEO Sophie Evans met Her Majesty the Queen and Prince Philip at an event.

19-something

New Home

We moved to Haverfordwest riverside. 

1997?

Website

Website launch.

1998

Entering the Digital Age

In 1998, we went computerised. Before that, everything was done by hand!

2006 March

Coastal House

On 16th March 2006, we moved to Coastal House. 

20-something

Coasty Launch

We launched our sister company, Coasty, specialising in the sales of characterful properties across Pembrokeshire. 

20-something

Hello to our Concierge

We launched our Concierge service, a team dedicated to helping our guests plan activity itineraries, schedule things to do and recommending places to eat. 

2021

Coastal Life Magazine Published

In 2021, we said goodbye to our traditional brochure and welcomed in a new-look magazine. 

2009

Birth of the Community Fund

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