The Watergate Bay Hotel has fast become one of Cornwall’s most stylish contemporary seaside hotel destinations.

Built in 1904, Watergate Bay Hotel was originally intended to serve as a railway terminus hotel for a proposed Newquay to Padstow branch line. It has been lovingly transformed into a stylish beach-side hotel, restaurants and surf school by the Ashworth family owners.

With 80 bedrooms, including 20 family suites and 7 epic beach lofts, two Village family apartments and a selection of dog-friendly rooms, the Watergate Bay Hotel is all about the balance of life: getting active & having a good time.

The Swim Club, Watergate Bay Hotel’s take on a spa, blurs the boundary between beach and hotel, bringing the outside, inside. Swim in the infinity pool or have a treatment and watch the surfers in the water, relax in the Ocean Room lounge by the roaring fire or in the hot tub and sauna on the deck looking over the Atlantic. With beachside changing areas and hot showers, there is no excuse not to get out and join the surfers – or even kite surfers – with a lesson from Wavehunters surf school. Also on the beach is a wood-fired sea view sauna, and sand-based fitness and yoga classes.

Diners are spoilt for choice for restaurants: Find super relaxed meals served all day at The Beach Hut, which is cool, coastal colours, pale wood and panoramic views of the beach.  Head for finer dining, beach-style, at Zacry’s on the sea wall, or upstairs in the The Living Space find a mix of sofas, tables and of course the deck overlooking the beach, serving food all day. All of the restaurants are open to residents and non-residents.

New for winter 2025 is Skate by the Sea – a 360-square-metre real ice rink with Atlantic sea views. With festive lights and crisp coastal air, it’s skating, reimagined right on the shoreline.