We've stayed at Watergate Bay just outside Newquay a couple of times - I'd recommend it. Excellent beach, nice hotel, handy for the airport if you're flying in.
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Ah!!!!!!! Cornwall!! Just got back from a flying visit.
Nipped down to a site near Newquay Airport to restore it back to service. Easy money!!
Set off about 3am and had the roads to myself pretty much all the way there and back.
Fabulous scenery and nice to be driving back towards a huge fiery orb, knowing that I can have a well-earned breaky then hit the sack for the rest of the day. Luxury!!
Will probably surface early afternoon and have lunch and a Banana Bread Beer (or two) on the patio, soaking up some rays and watching the ships in Lyme Bay. Life is tough sometimes.
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Cornwall was fantastic, well most of it, and really enjoyed the holiday.
Hotels were mostly great, a suite at the St Moritz for the first few nights which was great, and we stayed at the Watergate Bay (cheers for the tip Lester) for the last few nights which was also great.
We booked a place online in St Ives for 2 nights in between and when the conformation mail never came through we phoned them up and said “do you have a room, we booked online” which they replied “sorry no online bookings came though and there are now no rooms”. Day later the manageress off the first called us up to ask why we had not turned up, 30 minute argument with the burd and manageress, manageress made a big mistake on that one. She basically called us liars which does not go down well with the burd.
Later when I discovered they had taken 100 quid from my account I called up expecting a rumble but they then said they would refund it. Shysters anyway.
Stayed in Carbis Bay Hotel on those nights which was ideal as the train to St Ives is only 4 minutes.
For such a lovely area there seems to have been a concerted effort to ruin the place by the locals, Newquay is just a total dump, Penzance is not really a place I would want to stay long in, Padstow is just too busy and Rick Stein’s fish and chips are totally crap. If he can’t get that right then bugger paying top dollar in his other places. St Ives seems to get the mix right.
St Michaels mount and Marazion are very nice ( Cheers for that tip MF ) and The Lost Gardens of Heligan is a great day out for a man with a decent camera.
Cornish Ales are top class, HSD, Tribute and Betty Stogs got a hammering. Lot of sea food got eaten as well but you had to take your time to research the places that do sea food for the tourists and the other ones that do real quality sea food.
Locals were all friendly as well even when their team was taking a pounding. There seemed to be a feeling of “we are Cornish first then English”, maybe.
Ohh, and never seen so much road kill in all my life, and I grew up in the country!
Cheers for all the advice, I think we will be going back next year and will see all the things we never got to do this time.Comment
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minestrone, did you drive to cornwall or train?Comment
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Sorry, been away for a few days,Originally posted by Boudica View Post
We ended up getting the plane down from Glasgow to Newquay, we stayed the last few days in the Watergate which was about 3 miles away. Pretty handy. Hired a ford focus for the week at 180 quid.Comment
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Thanks!Originally posted by minestrone View Post
I'm just in London so a bit closer, would you recommend Watergate?Comment
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Isn't Cornwall full of smugglers and German seafarers?Comment
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