For £1.25 million, a glamping site complete with a spacecraft, submarine, jet aircraft, and igloo is also for sale.
The “strange and lovely” Apple Camping site was highlighted as an extraordinary glamping destination on the Channel 4 programs Four in a Bed and My Unique B&B.
The campground in Redberth, Pembrokeshire, which also has a UFO, a speedboat in the lawn, a power boat, a railway carriage, and a disco chapel, is being sold by its owner Toby Rhys-Davies, 50.
I really wanted south Pembrokeshire to have a little bit more of an alternative feel, but someone else got a glamping license so I had to be creative, Mr. Rhys-Davies said.
“What’s to stop us from repurposing items like airplanes and accommodations that people would wish to use?” I pondered. and it has been that way ever since.
As you do, I brought my mother shopping at Cotswold Airport. We were looking for an aircraft to recycle when I saw the Jetstar, a vintage private jet from the 1970s.
The 50-year-old has spent more than ten years building the distinctive vacation rental company.
The UFO was inspired by his love of movies, travel, and the ’50s, he said.
However, after coming up with the concept, I had to find someone to construct it. A few individuals claimed that Steve Hicks, a semi-retired yacht builder, lived in Tenby.
“So, me and him went out for a pint, and I mentioned that I was thinking about making a UFO, and he could work on it from his work with fibreglass from his boat building background – and it turns out he’d always wanted to build a UFO,” he said.
Mr. Rhys-Davies is selling the whole property in order to pursue other endeavors elsewhere in Pembrokeshire.
Because Apple Camping is such a flexible location, he said, “I’m outgrowing it at a moment when it’s ready for someone else, who may want to do weddings too.
“While I was using this much ingenuity to get it to where it is now, I believe someone else could have a lot of fun adding to it. The timing is ideal for allowing someone else to keep developing it.”
“The property is a historic farmhouse with enormous inglenook fireplaces, lots of features, and it’s a nice house to come home to and switch off,” the seller said. “For the next owners, it could possibly be a terrific family home, since it’s spacious with beautiful big rooms.”
At his eccentric campground in Redberth, South Wales, Rhys-Davies spent £50,000 in September of last year converting the naval artifact into an opulent getaway home.
The dome was constructed to detect enemy boats using sonic waves; the others are submerged in the ocean or located in other countries. It is the last of its type in British control.
The device was on both HMS Sheffield and HMS Coventry, which were sunk during the Falklands War.
The dome that is currently a part of Mr. Davies’ creation, Apple Camping’s owner, was one of four domes created for Type 42 destroyers. The one he is now holding was a “spare.”
The other three were aboard active vessels, including HMS Sheffield and HMS Coventry, which were both lost during the 1982 Falklands War and are now submerged in the Atlantic Ocean.
The third dome is still on a ship, but the Argentines possess that ship, according to Mr. Davies.
The Sheffield class, commonly referred to as the Type 42 HMS destroyers, was a group of fourteen guided missile destroyers that were first ordered in 1968 and delivered in 1971.
Between 1975 and 2013, the Royal Navy used this kind of destroyer for 38 years before switching to Type 45 destroyers.
Mr. Davies recovered the sonar dome in November of last year after it barely avoided active action in the Falklands War and a friend with ties in the navy said he may be able to utilize it.
The proprietor of the glamping resort previously made news for converting an old Etihad airbus and a 1970s Jetstar into two more opulent accommodations.
The first visitors snatched up the chance to stay in August after his most recent renovation, which cost Mr. Davies £50,000 to finish, took eight months to complete.