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Lugger Hotel
- Style
- Smuggler’s inn turned boutique hideaway
- Setting
- Cornwall’s mystical coast
Minimalist elements have been used throughout the hotel and the excellent restaurant, mixed with a more relaxed, traditional country feel.
Need to know
- Rooms
- 21, all ensuite.
- Rates
- £200–£240, including breakfast. A minimum two-night stay is required at weekends.
- Check-out
- 11am.
- Facilities
- Massage and therapy room, offering reiki, reflexology, Indian head massage and facials.
- Children
- No children under 12.
In the know
- Our favourite rooms
- Rooms 301, 302 and 303 have terraces and the best sea views.
- Packing tips
- Fishing nets, walking boots, Ordnance Survey map.
- Also
- Bring wet-weather gear; when the weather closes in, it really closes in.
Food & drink
- Hotel restaurant
- Restaurant specialising in seafood. Refuel in the morning between 8am and 10am.
- Dress code
- More dash than flash.
- Top table
- At lunchtime, on the terrace; in the evening, one by the window.
- Last orders
- 9pm (later by pre-arrangement). Bar opening hours are flexible.
- Room service
- Breakfast and drinks only.
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Local restaurants
Rick Stein’s foodie empire is an hour’s drive away in Padstow, but worth the trip (+44 (0)1841 532700; www.rickstein.com). A few miles along the coast in St Mawes is the
Hotel Tresanton (+44 (0)1326 270055) for superb local and organic food. The
Driftwood (+44 (0)1872 580644) for wonderful fish and seafood.
Local bars
In Portloe itself, opposite the hotel, is the
Ship Inn, which serves good pub food (+44 (0)1872 501356). The
New Inn in Veryan has a slightly less traditional menu (+44 (0)1872 501362).
Worth getting out of bed for
The bay is great for a refreshing dip (watch out for the lobster pots) or a bracing coastal walk. Tate St Ives (+44 (0)1736 796226; www.tate.org.uk/stives) is a gallery worth visiting. The Eden Project (+44 (0)1726 811911; www.edenproject.com) is an experimental biosphere with the largest conservatories in the world. In high season, get tickets through the hotel to avoid queuing. A trip to the National Maritime Museum in Falmouth (+44 (0)1326 313388; www.nmmc.co.uk); the foot ferry leaves St Mawes Harbour every 20 minutes.
Diary
May there are May Day celebrations in St Ives, Padstow and throughout Cornwall (www.cornishlight.co.uk/cornish-customs.htm).
July Rip Curl Newquay Boardmasters is the UK’s largest lifestyle sports festival (www.surffestival.com).
August British surfing championships in Newquay (www.surfnewquay.co.uk/events.shtml).