Ideal for lovers of the beach and coastal life, this modern, luxury home in Abersoch offers harbour and sea views, while a host of local shops, cafes and restaurants are just a minute or two away on foot.
This stylish, luxury holiday home in the popular coastal village of Abersoch, is perfect for a family beach holiday and is ideally located for exploring the stunning Llyn Peninsula. It’s just steps away from cafes and restaurants, whilst lovely, sandy beaches is only a few minutes’ walk. With indoor and outdoor living spaces, there’s plenty of room for everyone to spread out and relax, but sunny days are best spent out on the terrace where you can cook up a barbecue feast, admire the views, unwind with a good book, or chill out in the hot tub.
The holiday home is set out over three storeys and offers a degree of flexibility to give adults and kids space to enjoy together or by themselves. The décor is bright and stylish throughout.
On the ground floor, there’s a contemporary, open-plan living space that comprises the lounge, kitchen and dining areas. It’s the perfect place for socialising, or for people to do their own thing yet still feel part of the group. However, you’re sure to be forgiven for simply wanting to admire the views of Abersoch’s inner harbour across the Warren beach and the Llanbedrog headland that can be seen from the lounge.
The lounge area has sofa seating and bean bags, as well as a Smart TV with a DVD player and a selection of board games. Meanwhile, French doors lead onto the front terrace where there are lovely views over the inner harbour. The modern kitchen is equipped with an integrated double oven and grill, a hob, an American fridge/freezer, a dishwasher, washing machine and tumble dryer, while there’s a dining table with seating for all six of you to enjoy a meal together.
There’s also the convenience of a downstairs cloakroom with a WC and basin.
Upstairs on the first floor, there’s a stylish double bedroom with a wardrobe, drawer space and coastal views, while at the rear of the house there’s a bunk room with bunk beds that’s the ideal hideaway for two kids. These rooms share a family bathroom that has a bath with a shower over, a basin, WC, heated towel rail and an illuminated mirror.
Up one more flight of stairs, on the second floor, there’s the elegant master bedroom suite that has storage space for your belongings, Velux windows and an en suite shower room with a shower cubicle, basin and WC.
The outside space comprises a front and side terrace with outdoor furniture, a BBQ and a hot tub.
Gwynedd is a mountainous county with much of the east covered by Snowdonia National Park. To the west is the Llyn Peninsula which is flatter and has some of North Wales’s most beautiful coastlines.
The lagoons, wetlands, grasslands and reedbeds of Spinnies Aberogwen nature reserve near Bangor attract a wonderful variety of birds all year round but in particular during spring and autumn migrations. In the summer look out for kingfishers, little egrets, and grey herons in the reeds as they hunt for small fish, while in winter, water rails, great-crested grebes, and snipe, are joined by dunlins, lapwings, and redshanks looking for shelter. The reserve has a hide as well as bird feeders giving you the opportunity to see the wildlife up close.
Just south of Porthmadog is Traeth Glaslyn nature reserve made up of salt marsh, willow woodland, and grassland and a haven for wildlife and birds including teals, wigeons, curlews, black-tailed godwits. There is a hide here too, but please note at high tide the reserve can become submerged so check tide times before you go.
Another wetland reserve is the RSPB’s Arthog Bog in the Mawddach Valley. It may be small but it’s crammed with wildlife. Visit in spring for the opportunity to see summer migrants such as sedge warblers, whitethroats, and cuckoos. In autumn, flocks of redwings and fieldfares arrive for the winter. There’s a good chance to see goldfinches, linnets, and siskins feeding on seeds all year round.
For woodland birds head to Nantporth nature reserve, overlooking the Menai Strait and home to blackcaps, treecreepers, nuthatches, and jays. It’s also a good place to spot carrion crows, ravens, and jackdaws which often flock to the foreshore.
Also in the Menai Straits, is Traeth Lafan or Lavan Sands, an intertidal sandbank that is important for waterfowl in particular oystercatchers, as well as ringed plovers, knots, greenshanks, and turnstones.
Although ospreys can be spotted all over Gwynedd, for fans of these magnificent birds of prey a trip to Bywyd Gwyllt Glaslyn Wildlife is a must. A pair of ospreys has been breeding at the site since 2004 and in spring, visitors can watch on camera as the parents deliver fish to feed their chicks at the nest. There are also viewing platforms, hides, and scopes, and volunteers on hand to answer any questions you might have.
