Guests say
Rhydyfran Coach House is a well-regarded cottage praised for its peaceful setting, spaciousness, and beautiful surroundings. Guests appreciate the comfortable furnishings, well-equipped kitchen, and the property's proximity to local attractions. The hosts are noted for their approachability and helpfulness. However, there is a mention of inadequate heating during colder months, which affected one guest's stay.
The cottage is consistently described as clean and well cared for, with one review specifically noting it as 'spotlessly clean'.
The location is praised for its beauty and peacefulness, with easy access to the Welsh coast and local amenities, although no specific negative comments are made about the location.
Many guests found the cottage comfortable, mentioning a 'super comfortable' bed and a peaceful environment. However, one review cited issues with heating during the winter, affecting the comfort score.
While the reviews mention well-equipped facilities and thoughtful extras, there is no consistent detail on maintenance or the state of facilities to accurately score this category.
Hosts are noted for their approachability and local advice, contributing to a thoughtful experience. However, as there is no mention of gifts, it should be noted that such gestures, while appreciated, are not guaranteed.
About this property
This lovely cottage is surrounded by countryside with a large garden, perfect for peace and quiet and to watch the wild life..
Ground Floor:
Living room: Smart TV, Woodburner
Dining room.
Kitchen: Electric Oven, Electric Hob, Microwave, Fridge/Freezer, Washing Machine
Bedroom 1: Zip And Link Kingsize Bed (2 x Singles On Request)
Shower Room: Cubicle Shower, Heated Towel Rail, Toilet
First Floor:
Bedroom 2: Kingsize (5ft) Bed.
Oil central heating, electricity, bed linen, towels and Wi-Fi included. Initial logs for wood burner included. Welcome pack. Back garden with sitting out area and garden furniture. Private parking for 1 car. No smoking. Please note: No children.. Set in the tranquil countryside with the opportunity to witness from your bedroom window red kites and various birds nesting. The night sky is also spectacular and you may witness shooting stars. The grounds also feature Scooby-Doo, Yogi Bear & Booboo chain saw sculptures. Equal distance from Lampeter & Aberaeron Rhydyfran Coach House is a beautifully restored property offering a perfect blend of character and modern comfort. The spacious lounge features vaulted ceilings, a cosy log burner and a Smart TV, creating a cosy yet elegant space to relax. Large windows fill the room with natural light, while the open-plan design gives a sense of space and tranquillity.
Adjacent to the lounge, the dining room/sunroom provides a bright and airy spot for meals with views over the garden. The well-equipped kitchen includes all you may need to rustle up a homely meal, making self-catering easy and convenient.
On the ground floor, there is a comfortable kingsize bedroom which can be two singles on request and a stylish bathroom with a convenient shower with shower seat. Upstairs, the kingsize bedroom offers a peaceful retreat, while the mezzanine reading area overlooks the living room, perfect for unwinding with a book. Outside, the large rear garden provides plenty of space to relax and enjoy the fresh country air.
The peaceful village of Cribyn offers an authentic taste of rural Wales, surrounded by rolling countryside and scenic walking trails. Just a short drive away, Lampeter is a charming university town with a rich history, independent shops, cafés, and cultural attractions. Aberaeron is of equal distance and offers dining for every taste, with individual shops and bakery, its sea front is a treasure. The Welsh Quilt Centre is a must-visit, showcasing traditional craftsmanship, while the Lampeter Farmers’ Market offers delicious local produce.
For outdoor lovers, Brechfa Forest provides miles of walking and mountain biking trails, while Llanerchaeron, a National Trust property near Aberaeron, offers a historic mansion, walled gardens, a lake and woodland walks.
A little further afield, the stunning Cardigan Bay coast is within easy reach. Visit the picturesque harbour town of Aberaeron, known for its colourful Georgian houses and award-winning seafood. Nearby New Quay offers sandy beaches, coastal walks, and dolphin-spotting boat trips.
For history enthusiasts, the Dolaucothi Gold Mines provide a fascinating insight into Roman-era mining, with underground tours. The Teifi Valley Railway offers a nostalgic steam train ride through the countryside, perfect for a family day out. The nearby market towns of Tregaron and Llandeilo are great for exploring boutique shops, historic sites, and local culture. Cors Caron Nature Reserve near Tregaron is a haven for wildlife lovers, featuring boardwalk trails through an ancient wetland landscape.
Whether you’re looking for coastal adventures, countryside walks, or historic sites, Rhydyfran Coach House provides a fantastic base to explore the beauty and heritage of West Wales.
Free WiFi
The owner lives on-site/nearby.
No children or babies allowed.
One or more beds can be linked to form double or twin beds (please advise the owner of your preference soon after booking).
EPC Rating = D
Nearby points of interest
- Afon Mêl Honey Farm & Meadery
- Dolphin Spotting
Reviews (11)
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Confirmed Guest
We booked to stay at the Coach House in November 2025. The cottage was bright, clean, well-equipped and has large rooms, and the location is very peaceful and rural with nice views over the countryside.However ... the heating system is woefully undersized to comfortably heat the property during the colder months of the year. It was about 8°C when we arrived on a Saturday night, and despite the radiators being on full blast, the cottage felt very chilly the moment we walked in.The owners admitted that the radiators are just there to give a background heat and that we would need to light the wood burner to make it nice and warm (using logs we would have to buy ourselves once we’d used up the small basket of logs they had provided). We lit the fire as soon as we could, but even after an hour or so the very large double-height living room only just started to get warm (unhelpfully, the log burner seemed to hold its heat in for a long time before the thick metal casing started to get warm and radiate the heat, despite the roaring fire inside!). The bedrooms were a little better as they were smaller.We contacted the owners by text and asked if they had any fan heaters we could borrow to boost the temperature of the living room where we were watching TV, and one of them came over and basically gave us a lecture about how expensive it was to heat the cottage with oil, and how the property was barely making a profit due to the new taxes in Wales for second homes … they said, in so many words, ‘this is how it [the heating] is’ …Due to the cost of heating the property, the owners set the heating to only come on for two periods during the day, from 6:30am to 10:30am, and from around 3pm to 10pm or thereabouts — and the heating controls were in a clear, locked box on the wall so the guests couldn’t adjust them, something I’d never seen before except in student accommodation!These two periods of heating would be fine if the property was really well insulated, but it just wasn’t, so when the heating turned off at 10pm, with the cottage still not comfortably warm, it started to cool down rapidly, and it almost felt like we were glamping outside when we went to bed, with our faces feeling noticeably cold when poking out from under the thick duvet!The dining room / sun room is not connected to the main central heating and whilst it has its own very effective electric radiator, it takes a good hour to warm the room to a comfortable temperature, especially if it’s been unheated overnight. Frustratingly, the only controls for the heater were 60, 90 and 120 minute boost buttons – there was no time-switch for pre-heating the room. So if you wanted to have breakfast in a nice warm room, you’d have to get up at least an hour beforehand, walk through the cold house to the dining room and turn the heater on before returning to bed to wait for the room to warm up – hardly the luxurious home-away-from-home experience we’d been so looking forward to for months!After a miserably cold night and start to the morning (3 hours of the heating being on before we got up was nowhere near enough to bring the whole cottage up to anywhere near a comfortable temperature, especially as it had been off for the prior 8 hours), we texted the owners again and asked for the heating to be turned on permanently for the rest of our stay — in cold weather, a property of that size with poor insulation needs a lot of heat pumped into it constantly to stay comfortably warm — or we would reluctantly have to look to move to another cottage as we just couldn’t face a week of being so uncomfortably cold. We genuinely didn’t want it to come to this as we liked everything else about the cottage.One of the owners then knocked at the door around 9:45am, in a very distressed state, and said effectively ‘yes please move elsewhere, we can’t be dealing with this’. She then texted just after 10am to tell us to vacate by 10:30am. We said we would leave once we’d had breakfast and had re-packed our belongings. The owner texted back and said 11am and that there were plenty of other B&Bs and caravan parks around that we could move to. In the end we left at 11:30am.We understood that the owners were in a difficult personal and financial situation, and whilst they were perfectly friendly when we first arrived, as soon as we mentioned feeling cold / wanting the heat turned up, they became very blunt and inhospitable, and by the end of that Sunday morning we felt devastated and utterly unvalued as guests. It was honestly the most stressful experience we’ve ever had on holiday and we wouldn’t wish it on anyone (especially as we were dealing with a lot of stress in our lives at the time and had been looking forward to a week of complete rest and relaxation).I’m sure the Coach House would be a great base to explore the surrounding area in the warmer months, but with its current heating system / levels of insulation / the way the heating is operated, it is simply not fit to be rented out once it gets cold — there’s no way the rooms were reaching (let alone maintaining) the minimum room temperature requirements for rental accommodation (which I believe to be 21C for living areas and 18C for bedrooms).As a side note, the shower was lovely and warm, and whilst the cottage had WiFi it was only getting about 1.5 to 2Mbps (not unsurprising being in the middle of the countryside) — this was just enough to stream programmes on the TV.
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Confirmed Guest
We had a really excellent stay in this property. The owners were helpful and friendly and we loved the house, it was perfect and had everything we needed.
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Donna Bradshaw
A lovely property in a beautiful, peaceful setting, a great place to kick back and relax and for exploring all that the area has to offer; within easy reach of the dramatic Welsh coast. The cottage is a gem, it exceeded our expectations.