Throughout December 2025
Yuletide Events
This December, you’re invited to gather in the glow of the Yultide season where candlelight, song, and winter’s beauty weave their magic. Join us for a series of festive gatherings and day events that celebrate the wonder of Christmas in all its warmth and enchantment.
This year, our Festive Events are split across two weeks! Week 1 (6th - 15th Dec) is crafted for adults & teenagers (13+), and Week 2 (19th - 22nd Dec) is crafted for families and littl’uns (U12). Scroll below for the events!
Optional Overnight Stay upgrades will be available on any Festive Events booked on Saturday 7th, 14th and 21st December. We’ll email you after your purchase with a private booking link.
Should you want to make the most of the day, discounted Day Passes are available for all days!
Week 2 Events | Families/Little’uns
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Yuletide High Tea & Festive Crafting
12th, 13th, 19th & 20th December | 9:45am–1pm
There’s something quietly magical about making gifts by hand,
especially when the materials come straight from the ancient woodland just outside the door. In our snug Potting Shed, you’ll roll up your sleeves and craft sustainable, heartfelt presents that speak to the joy of giving and the slow, mindful rhythms of the season.When your hands have worked their magic, settle in for a festive high tea. Think warming teas, spiced cakes, and savoury nibbles, each bite bursting with seasonal love and the kind of comfort only winter treats can bring. Leave with beautiful handmade treasures, a full belly, and a heart glowing with yuletide cheer.
This experience nourishes both creativity and community, leaving you with handmade treasures to gift or keep, and a heart full of seasonal cheer.
Ticket Cost: £49.95
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Yuletide High Tea with Open House & Gardens
12th, 13th, 19th & 20th December | 2pm–5pm
If you’re craving stillness this season, this gentle afternoon offers the perfect way to slow down and soak in the beauty of winter.Begin with a guided wander through the house, once home to Laura Ashley, where every room holds a quiet charm and a sense of story. From there, wrap up and head outdoors for a stroll through the gardens, woodland paths, and waterfall trails.
The land is soft with winter’s touch, and you’ll have time to take it all in, the bare branches, the moss underfoot, the hush in the air.As the light begins to fade, retreat indoors for a festive high tea. Think delicate sweet and savoury bites, herbal infusions, and teas chosen to warm and restore. It’s a nourishing way to spend a wintry afternoon, calm, cosy, and filled with just the right touch of magic.
Ticket Cost: £49.95 -
Carols with Father Christmas
13th, 14th, 20th, 21st December | 6pm - 7:30pm
As night falls and lanterns glow beneath the trees, gather in our woodland Teahouse for an evening of carols, cocoa, and festive magic. With firelight flickering and the forest all around, Father Christmas himself will lead the singing, with a twinkle in his eye and a voice full of cheer.
This is the kind of winter night that brings people together, voices rising, marshmallows toasting, and hands wrapped around mugs of hot chocolate. You don’t need to know every word (we’ve got song sheets ready); you just need to bring a little warmth and a willingness to join in.
Whether you come with family, friends, or simply a love of the season, this joyful gathering is a beautiful way to honour the spirit of Christmas in the heart of the woods.
Ticket Cost: Adults: £34.95 | Children: £24.95
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Yuletide Lunch with Open House & Gardens
14th & 21st December | 9:45am - 1pm
There’s something grounding about walking the land in winter, the bare trees, the cool air, the soft crunch underfoot. Begin your morning with a gentle guided tour through the house and gardens, moving from cosy interiors to wide open skies and winding paths. It’s a chance to see the season with fresh eyes and connect to a place shaped by history, stillness, and care.After your walk, a festive two-course lunch awaits. Our chefs bring together hearty seasonal ingredients to create dishes that feel like a celebration, whether you choose the warming comfort of a meat dish or the vibrant richness of our plant-based menu.
It's an experience rooted in rest, flavour, and shared connection, a way to welcome the season not with a rush, but with presence.
Ticket Price: £54.95
OVERNIGHT ACCOMMODATION
We’re offering Festive Overnight add-ons for those that would like to try a slice of the magic we have at The Dreaming.
Treat yourself or a loved one to an early Christmas gift with our December Saturday overnight stays where you can enjoy a night in one of our luxurious rooms for deep rest, waking to the mystical beauty that surrounds us. You’ll have access to tea and coffee whenever you wish, and start your day with a simple yet nourishing breakfast. Take time for a morning walk through our healing lands before you check out, feeling restored and connected.
Each rooms interior reflect our passion for other cultures. Natural materials and tactile draping create den-like spaces, whilst original floorboards and textured walls give coherence and a cosseting feel to the seven rooms, each with its own distinct name and character.
The essence of connection thrives through our shared rooms. Our distinctive approach assigns beds individually rather than by room, encouraging meaningful interactions with fellow guests.
Embracing shared living is ingrained in The Dreaming’s values, creating an environment where bonds flourish.
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For 2 Individuals Sharing / £300 per person per Saturday night
Inspired by Luna herself, The Moon is designed to honour the lunar goddesses. Using handmade natural materials, it is a purifying and calming space, with soft flowing white fabrics. Luxurious beds with fabric privacy screens, a spacious seating area, and an ensuite with moon-shaped bath overlooking the Moon Garden.
It is south facing, overlooking the Elemental garden, with a breathtaking view of the Nant Caethon Valley.
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For 2 Individuals Sharing
South-facing with a balcony, to take in the breathtaking views of the Elemental garden and the Nant Caethon Valley, The Mystic’s furnishings have been hand-sewn using a collection of decadent Indian saris, drawing attention to the changing tones throughout the day in its spacious seating area, and luxurious beds with fabric privacy screens.
Perhaps the most magical of all, this warm room also has an ensuite with a golden tadelakt shower, surrounded by botanical plants.
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For 2 individuals sharing / £240 per person per Saturday night
The best place to experience the breaking of day, The Dawn is south facing with a balcony to enjoy the view of the Elemental garden and the Nant Caethon Valley.
The handmade soft furnishings were created using natural dyes to reflect the colours of sunrise, bringing a brightness to the room. With luxurious beds and fabric privacy screens, a seating area, rustic pine furniture, and an altar to honour the solar deities, a stay in The Dawn is an energy restoring experience. Its bathroom is across the hall, and has a Moroccan-inspired tangerine tadelakt shower.
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For 2 Individuals Sharing / £300 per person per Saturday night
Inspired by the wonders of mycelium (the network of fungal threads that connects all the plants of the forest together) The Mushroom is designed and crafted using rustic natural materials to achieve an earthy, grounded feel, dark antique wooden furniture and warm neutral tones in its spacious seating area, and luxurious beds with fabric privacy screens.
It is south facing, overlooking the Elemental garden, with a breathtaking view of the Nant Caethon Valley, and includes an ensuite bathroom, with a walk-in shower, and a bath with a view, surrounded by a selection of botanical plants.
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For 3 Individuals Sharing / £200 per person per Saturday night
A stay at The Wanderer is an immersive experience, with natural materials and artefacts from Africa, Peru and Mexico. This is the room for explorers, and has a spacious seating area, and luxurious beds with fabric privacy screens.
The room is south facing, overlooking the Elemental garden, with a breathtaking view of the Nant Caethon Valley, and includes an ensuite bathroom, with a shower and bath, and a window seat to take in the view.
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For 1 Individual or Couples / £320 per person per Saturday night / £550 for a couple
Honouring the design and forest reverence in Japanese culture, Forest Spirits is north facing and overlooks the ancient woodland.
With traditional Japanese tatami flooring, a spacious seating area, and a luxurious king-size bed, the room also has an ensuite bathroom with a black tadelakt shower and a porcelain lotus sink. Immersive Japanese experience for all of the senses, including the scent of traditional Japanese Tatami Mats.
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For 2 Individuals Sharing / £280 per person per Saturday night
North-facing to the deep forests, The Womb is a celebration of womanhood. With soft flowing fabrics, all handmade and dyed using natural ingredients, it has the nourishing, secure feeling of being swaddled. Luxurious beds with fabric privacy screens, a seating area, and a playful ensuite with a pink tadelakt shower.
The Location
Nestled in the heart of the Elan Valley, Wales. Our retreat offers a serene and rejuvenating environment, away from busy work life, whatever the weather.
Set within forty seven glorious acres of ancient land, The Dreaming is a rural wonder which offers true serenity and blissful tranquility. Once a 15th century Cistercian monastery, this fabulous property passed through Georgian and Victorian aristrocratic families to the designer Laura Ashley and her family in the 20th century.
Laura Ashley directed her multinational interior design company from Rhydoldog House and then, in 2020, our founder Charlotte Church, with the help of talented collaborators, reimagined, refurbished and reconfigured it.
