Watergate Bay Hotel Hotel

Newquay

The surf's up. Sea birds swoop across the crests of waves tumbling onto a flat crescent of a beach. It could be Australia, yet this is England – a wild part of the South West where steep, craggy cliffs plunge into the sapphire seas of the Cornwall Coast. Guests of Watergate Bay Hotel, a former railway terminus turned RAF officers’ mess, can flit between the seaside, one of the hotel’s stylishly nautical guestrooms and Zacry’s restaurant, with home-made waffles for breakfast and, come dinner, brasserie favourites including Cornish spider crab and Grampound duck. Doubles from £185.