Bluestone in Pembrokeshire, a £110 million short-break destination, expects to welcome its first guests in July 2008.
The first phase will include 186 timber lodges set around a traditionally-designed village featuring more accommodation in the form of 30 cottages and 17 studio apartments, along with a spa, restaurants, a pub and a range of shops. The first phase also includes a sports club and the Blue Lagoon water park.
All aspects of the development have been designed with environmental responsibility in mind. Eco-friendly initiatives include an energy centre which creates heat from biomass crops grown by a co-operative of local farmers.
The project has received £14.5 million from the Welsh Assembly Government and a £4 million investment from Finance Wales. Work on the second phase, which will include the remainder of the accommodation, will begin next year. A state-of-the-art and a snow centre comprises the third phase, scheduled to begin in 2009.
The water park will be home to a wave machine capable of producing the largest indoor wave in the UK and the snow centre will be the first of its kind in the UK to feature real snow created by snow canons in a refrigerated dome constructed over a ski slope.
For further information about Bluestone, go to www.bluestonewales.com
