Ginger Hill

As well as safe beaches, Tenby has a castle and a fort to explore and is also where you catch the boats to Caldey Island. Home to a community of monks who make and sell perfume, chocolate and biscuits in their shop, it’s also full of wildlife and an almost heavenly abundance of quiet walks on the cliffs and empty beaches. If you’ve caught the bug for boat trips, it’s a 40-minute drive to Martin’s Haven for trips to the islands of Skomer, Skokholm and Grassholm, free of humans but teeming with colonies of gannets and puffins. If land-based excitement is more your bag, it’s a five-minute drive to Hangar 5 Trampoline Park and its 10,000 square feet of spring-loaded high larks. It’s all indoors, which makes it a handy venue for those days when the sun’s not playing ball. Bigger thrills are to be found at Folly Farm Adventure Park and Zoo (half an hour), meeting the meerkats, standing nose-to-nose with the giraffes and whizzing round on the waltzers in the funfair. Also around half an hour’s drive away are archery, go-karting, laser clay pigeon shooting and bumper boats, along with mini landrovers and an agility course for canine chums at Heatherton World of Activities.