Trips & holidays
Holiday in Calpe, Spain
23-30 September 2025
Date: 23 September 2025
Duration: 8 Days/7 nights
Board Basis: Half Board – breakfast and dinner, buffet style
Accommodation: Diamante Beach & Spa Hotel
4*
Three guided walks (details on Involved website) +
included excursion to Valencia + one optional excursion.
Price: £1149.00 per person
Single supplement: £160
Deposit: 25%
Balance Due: 56 days before departure
Baggage: 20 kg per person included. Flight with TUI
Outbound: Cardiff 06:00; Alicante 09:25
Return: Alicante 10:25; Cardiff 11:50
Fully booked but contact Pam to be put on the reserve list:
or email info@caerphillyramblers.org.
Short holiday in St Davids, June 2025
Dates: Monday 2nd to Friday 6th June 2025 (great time for spring flowers).
Hotel: Premier Inn St Davids (///paused.centrally.migrants) 10 minute walk from the centre of St Davids and bus stops.
Flex Price (recommended) £572 per standard room for 4 nights (for 1 or 2 people), book in advance, pay on arrival, cancellation up to 1 p.m. on day of arrival (alternatively £470 per room, pay when booking, cancellation up to 28 full days before arrival). Additional cost for breakfast: £43.96 cooked breakfast or £35.96 continental breakfast per person for the 4 nights.
Book yourselves on hotel website.
Getting there: Car share recommended.
Meals: Breakfast in Premier Inn, Evening meal in local pub
or restaurant.
Sandwiches and snacks can be bought in local shops on the way to
walks.
Number of places: Limit 16 as the Celtic Coaster 403
bus has only 21 seats.
Walks
Monday 2nd (arrival day), 2 p.m.
St Davids Premier Inn to St Non’s Bay, returning via Porth Clais and
St Davids Cathedral.
5.5 miles, 384 ft ascent.
Tuesday 3rd, 10:25 a.m.
Catch T11 10.45 a.m. bus at St Davids City Hall, New Street (bus
timetable may change). Arrive Lower Solva 10.55.
Solva to St Davids via St Non’s Bay. Option to visit Cathedral.
6.5 miles, 575 ft ascent.
Wednesday 4th, 9:45 a.m.
Catch Celtic Coaster 403 bus from Caerfai Road (Tourist information)
at 10 a.m. Arrive Porthclais Harbour 10.10.
Porthclais to St Justinians, with good views of Ramsey Island.
Return to St Davids by Celtic Coaster bus (half hourly), 5 miles,
500 ft ascent (approx.).
Or continue to Whitesands Bay Café, total 7 miles, ascent 600 ft
(approx.) and return by Celtic Coaster bus.
Thursday 5th, 9:55 a.m.
Llethyr to Carn Treliwyd, then coastal path to Whitesands Bay Café. Return by Celtic Coaster Bus (half hourly), 5.5 miles, approx. 500 ft ascent. Alternatively return on foot total 9.5 miles, approx. 750 ft ascent.
Friday 6th (departure day)
10 a.m. from Lower Solva Car Park (car park charge) (return to
Caerphilly from here).
Circular walk Solva to Porthmynawyd cove, return via Poinz Castle
and St Elvis Farm. 5 miles, 700 ft ascent.
Note that Caerphilly Ramblers insurance only covers walks, not travel and overnight stays. Holiday insurance is recommended.
To be put on the reserve list, email: jane.willock@gmail.com
Walking
with alpacas, Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 Many
thanks to Sian for a very different day out.
Lots of pictures on the Facebook
page.
Almuñecar, May 2024
Many thanks to Pam for a varied and enjoyable holiday
in the sun by the Mediterranean.
Lots of pictures on the Facebook page.
Dolgellau, October 13th 2023
Thanks to Pam for arranging an extremely eventful
holiday.
Thanks also to the local mountain rescue, ambulance and fire
services,
as well as to the staff and volunteers of HF Holidays
for ensuring that problems did not become crises.
Pictures taken during the trip are available on the
Caerphilly Ramblers' Facebook
page.
Bosherston Ponds, Thursday 6th July 2023
Thank you Margaret for the day out at Bosherston ponds.