Living spaces here come laced with luxury, but the fun and frolics are never far from the surface. Even the entrance hall doubles as a karaoke and jukebox dancefest beneath a glittering disco ball. Dance on… all the way into the leisure wing complete with indoor pool, sauna, and steam room.
Save some energy for the games room: pour a stiff one and spend your nights over poker, chess, and board games. Or make merry in the music room with the harp, ukulele, drum kit, record player, and piano.
Settle back in leather-chaired luxury in the media room with kiddie beanbags and movie streaming on the 100” TV screen. Get together for sports nights in the upstairs family area, with its smart TV, soft seating and table-tennis table. Cue up for pool in the billiards room. And catch up on communications in the two-screen home office.
If you can tear yourself away from the swimming pool, the billiards, the karaoke, poker, and home cinema, you’ll find a luxury country-style kitchen and smaller kitchen with range cooker for when the guest list bubbles over. And if it’s all too much? Sign up for our multicultural-cuisine in-house dining team at DineIndulge.
Eat in the 24-seater dining room or out on the terrace with a view over the valley. Stock up at Tesco Extra, Alda, and Lidl, and get your sarnies, cheeses and cured meats from Blasus deli. Or make every night a takeaway night, with USA Pizza, Crisp and Fry, Cinnamon Indian, Belfoi for Bangladeshi, and Fortune House Chinese on rotation.
Eat out at The Halfway Inn on the banks of the River Towy on oven-roasted pork steak with creamy garlic potatoes. For traditional Welsh, try The Butcher’s Arms for a boneless honey-roast duck on a bed of orange and Grand Marnier sauce. Or The Warren for a slow-roast lamb shoulder with black-olive tapenade.
Try Florentino’s for Italian, including swordfish steak or The Café at No. 4, where the head chef trained at Claridge’s and has brought his expertise to Carmarthen with a unique brand of modern British cuisine. For great gastro, head to Diablo’s. And for highly rated Indian, get down to Ginger on King Street.
In the heavy silence that hangs over the southwest-Wales valleys, sleep is a serene affair. Pick from nine bedrooms in the main house and two more in an adapted ground-floor annexe. Carmarthen manor sleeps 24.
Bedroom one (The Kingfisher Suite) offers a superking bed, sofa, en-suite with shower, and small walk-in wardrobe, while The Stripes Suite is also a superking with sofa, dressing room, and en-suite with shower and bath. The Gold Room gives you a kingsize bed and en-suite shower room.
Fountain View is a kingsize with shower en-suite and small walk-in wardrobe, while The Pearl Room has a kingsize bed, sofa, and en-suite with shower. Sgwd Clun-Gwyn and Sgwd y Pannwr are twin en-suites and Sgwd Isaf Clun-Gwyn provides a double bed with en-suite. En-suite Sgwd yr Eira sleeps three in a double and single.
In the annexe, Afon Tywi is a double room and Afon Taf a single.
