Escape to the heart of nature in our bright and welcoming The Shipwright’s House, located within the popular Haven park, Hafan Y Môr. This comfortable 2-bedroom lodge is perfect for families or couples looking for a peaceful break with access to fantastic on-site facilities.
Inside the lodge, you’ll find a double bedroom and a twin bedroom, providing cosy accommodation for up to four guests. The fully equipped kitchen has everything you need to enjoy a self-catered stay, while the open-plan living and dining area is flooded with natural light, making it a lovely space to relax and unwind. The lodge also features a modern family bathroom for your convenience.
Step outside onto the terrace balcony at the front of the lodge – ideal for your morning coffee or an evening drink.
Guests can enjoy access to a wide range of on-site facilities, including restaurants, entertainment, and family-friendly activities. Please note that the outdoor pool is open from April to September. To use many of the park’s key features, Park Hub Passes are required and can be purchased on arrival when on the Haven site.
Up to two dogs are welcome at The Shipwright’s House during your stay.
This accommodation is designed for family groups only. Unfortunately, we cannot accept stag or hen parties or large group events.
Electricity, bed linen and towels included. No smoking. Please note: Sorry, no stag or hen parties. This property has a £150 security deposit.
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.
