Hello! We are Ed and Kelly, and we can’t wait to meet you and share our little bit of paradise with you!

So, a bit about us: 

Celaeron has been the family home to Kelly and her 2 sons, Kiani and Finian, since 2009. Kelly is a dressage rider/coach and judge, and the equestrian centre is home to the horses (you will get to meet them as they are in the fields surrounding the glamping meadow!) It is a livery and competition yard, and yes you can bring your horse on holiday if you have one! The glamping meadow was originally a touring caravan site, but when Kelly ended up as a single parent, 2 businesses were just too much work, and the site was used as a field for the young horses. 

Fast forward to 2016, Ed had decided he was leaving the rat race of city life and the pressure, so took a sabbatical and came to help on his sisters farm for a few months before travelling the world – he got no further than Wales!!! Whilst at his sisters he decided that learning to ride would be a great way to meet ladies, and it just so happened his sister had her own horses, and was not only a client of Kelly’s,  but also a dear friend – in fact Kelly is Godmother to her daughter! Well, apparently learning to ride horses does help you meet someone, Ed just wasn’t expecting it to be his instructor! 

So,  the next decision was ‘what else can we do so Ed doesn’t have to commute to the city??’ Standing in, what is now, the glamping meadow, the views still blew us away – we needed to share that. That is how Celaeron Glamping happened! Ed sold his house to fund it, then in February 2017 we eloped! Yep, we ran away to get married, and not a single soul knew about it! 

The work continued and we eventually opened in Easter 2019, just one pod to start with whilst we finished the next 3, and by summer we had all 4 pods running- it was a steep learning curve, but the reviews and the feedback were just what we had hoped!

So into the winter we went, with plans for extra things to build/do for the next season – and then the world virtually came to a standstill. It was a very worrying time, and the site couldn’t open until mid July 2020, which meant a very short season, and the money just wasn’t there to do all the extras! However, within 10 days of opening bookings, all dates until mid September were filled, and almost full until the end of October when we close. Then a similar thing happened in 2021, but our opening date was in Mid May – so a longer season than the year before, and again we were full within days, and the building of the outdoor kitchen began.  

Our biggest surprise has been how many repeat bookings we get, it’s awesome seeing people every year, and sometimes multiple times a year. We’ve made some great friends and we get to see the children grow up too! It just makes us smile that people get what we are doing, and want to come back time and again – standing musing in the field a few years ago, wondering what we could do, has turned into not just a business,  but a wonderful way of life, and because we are small we get to make sure each and every guest has everything they need, we can chat with them, play with their children and dogs – and we are often outside around a firepit at 9pm (until we realise we haven’t had dinner!!) 

So, that’s us in a nutshell – oh, and we forgot to mention that as well as the horses, we have 5 dogs that may come and say hello, and 2 cats – but don’t be fooled by any of them, they do get fed twice a day, and as much as they tell you they are starving hungry and would really like a sausage off your barbeque, don’t believe a word they say!!!! They’re big fibbers!! Feed them once and they’ll be pestering you all the time – stay strong and resist!!! 🤣