Awards are great. Accolades for a job well done, an achievement for hard work, working towards a goal, and being rewarded feels good. One Welsh hotel has achieved this and then some but refuses to rest on its laurels.
Grove of Narberth seems to have harnessed some extra-special fairy dust which has seen their team heaped with awards from best young waiter in the world to hotel of the year, best wine list in Wales, and a plethora of AA stars and red rosettes. It's a destination hotel in the heart of Pembrokeshire – tucked away in a glade, overlooking a newly-placed pond, surrounded by cherry blossom trees and the wilder Welsh countryside making it a magical place to visit on the frostiest morning in mid-winter or sunny evening during summer.
Entering through the cast-iron gates after winding around the narrow Pembrokeshire road and your mind is already anticipating something hidden away and magical. And it is.