Welcome to Monmouthshire Cottages for your staycation

We are now reopen after the Coronavirus lockdown! If you would like to make a booking for 2020 or any part of 2021 please do it entirely normally using our Availability pages on this site. If you have questions please just e mail  [email protected] We have now been awarded the UK wide Good To Go kitemark for our careful cleaning and safety preparations for reopening and hosting again!

2020 is Wales’s Year of the Great Outdoors  ( in Welsh Outdoors is Awyr Agored)  We have the most fabulous  landscapes in an area of Outstanding Natural Beauty- make it your own at Monmouthshire Cottages.

(In Welsh we are Bythynodd Sir Fynwy!  Croeso! )

Staycations are the new normal, even for those who usually travel further afield. Come and see what you have been missing!

Planning to Visit Monmouthshire ?  Looking for a Wye Valley Holiday Cottage  for your staycation ?  Choosing an Usk Country Cottage – or want a Hideaway with walking in the Forest of Dean for your own special rural retreat?  Dreaming of  a Tintern Riverside Cottage? Attending a  wedding?   Planning a honeymoon, birthday, or anniversary treat?     Working, filming  or have family in our beautiful area?  Attending a conference at the lovely new International Conference Centre Wales?   There are so many compelling reasons to visit!

2020 is  Wales’ Year of the Great Outdoors.  Come and  be active and discover our incredible scenery, history, adventure, activities, food and drink and so much more!Or just sit in the garden and drink it in.

We have  amazing outdoor opportunities, in particular  walking, canoeing and kayaking, birdwatching and cycling, but the list is endless. Push the boat out on our sparkling rivers! Archery, riding, quad biking, wild swimming, gorge scrambling or golf anyone?  Or pack a gentle picnic ?  Monmouthshire is the Food Capital of Wales- making our cottages a perfect choice for a 5* foodie break with treats at the local pubs  or at the farmers markets  ( and our kitchens  let you cook  the treats you found yourself!). We have starry Michelin places too with elegant delicacies  and enviable wine cellars- for days when you push the boat out on dry land!

Feeling good has no season. Eat. Swim. Dance. Sing.  Whatever your season and reason for coming our three stylish Monmouthshire Holiday Cottages wait to welcome you.

Not a complex, they are family operated, individually located and distinctive , brilliantly well equipped, individually designed . Fittings and equipment are constantly updated for your comfort. We replace  and update huge numbers of items at each cottage all year round and we have a busy ongoing programme of preventative maintenance.  We care that things remain smart for you- and we work hard to ensure this.  As Heraclitus famously said ” The only thing that is constant- is change!”

You can discover active fun or sit quietly   There is lots that is fresh and exciting to see and do from all three, all year.

There is also Peace. Quiet. Time – at all three.

• Tintern Abbey Cottage (sleeps up to 6)  fabulously positioned opposite Tintern Abbey in the famously beautiful Wye Valley,
• Foxes Reach (sleeps up to 6)  with its own  hot tub just a mile above Tintern at Catbrook,
• Vanilla Cottage (sleeps up to 3)  on the River Usk close to  pretty Usk and Abergavenny , gateway to the Brecon Beacons.

All three are pet friendly, unusually well equipped, conveniently set – We are in the heart of the famously lovely Wye Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty , near Offa’s Dyke, the Royal Forest of Dean, on The Wye Valley Walk ,  the Monmouthshire Way,  in the bautiful Vale of Usk -and so easy for exploring the Brecon Beacons.

Our guests are personally welcomed on arrival and find lights and heating on, tables laid for dinner, beds ready to slip into.

Fresh seasonal flowers  scent the rooms and there is milk in the fridge.Enjoy from the first moment.

Brilliant for great experiences Outdoors or Indoors -walking, eating, sightseeing,  golf, family reunions, anniversaries , small meetings and much more.

Come stay awhile……….  Come play awhile. ………..

We are now booking autumn  2020, and  all of 2021  into January 2022  .  Come and discover Monmouthshire Cottages for yourself.