Two minutes from the sand at Porth, on the quiet stretch of coast between Newquay and Watergate Bay. Sea-view balconies on two floors, a private garden, and a garage full of boards, bikes and a table tennis table.
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Porth sits in a sheltered bay with low headlands on both sides. The tidal range is enormous, so the beach changes character twice a day: a wide plain of hard sand at low water, a short shallow paddle at high. It is the beach families come back to.
Five minutes on foot takes you over the footbridge onto Porth Island, an Iron Age headland with earthworks and a blowhole that fires at mid tide on a windy day. The South West Coast Path runs past the end of the road — west into Newquay in half an hour, east over the cliff to Watergate Bay.
A pub sits on the beach and cafés sit across the road from it, so the first evening never needs a plan. Everything else is a short drive: Fistral, Bedruthan, Padstow, and the Eden Project when the weather turns properly against you.
Before you walk the headland. Whipsiderry and the coves under the cliff cut off on a rising tide. Check the tide table on the morning you go, and take the high path if in doubt.
Room by room, floor by floor: what is on each level, what is in the kitchen, and what is in the garage.
Look round → 02 — EatFrom the pub on the sand at two minutes, out to the thatched inn worth a fifteen-minute drive.
See the list → 03 — DoCoasteering, steam trains, an Elizabethan manor, and the aquarium you will be glad of on day four.
See the list →This site is the guide. The calendar, the quote and the booking itself all live with One Atlantek Properties, who manage the house.