Lovely Youth Hostel on top of cliff overlooking Treyaron Bay. sleeps approxiamtely 70 people…read more Family Rooms and BUnk Rooms available. Gets booked up over a year in advance. Small camping site in grounds Food is all home cooked and is reasonable priced. Can be noisy when parents don't keep tabs on their offspring !!!. Good surfing nearby, although Treyarnon Bay is more suitable for body boarding that surfing. Fantastic sands for building sandcastles

Now that YHA have changed their planning application from discharging sewage in the sea to…read moreconnecting to the mains (hurrah!) I have stopped boycotting their bar and cafe. Lovely outside eating area in nice weather, almost on the edge of the cliff. Bar and cafe open to non residents. Limited menu but adequate. Serving stuff decorated with a small pile of salad on large wood platters with chips in a little bucket is a bit weird. I felt like asking for a plate! No wonder there are so many birds hanging about watching closely! Anyway, it was quite nice and reasonably priced and the view is lovely.

I stayed here on a cheap Megabus inspired trip to Newquay, and it is undoubtedly a surf lodge. I…read morethink I was lucky I was there in the off season as the place has a distinct bad Ibiza flavor to it, i.e. not fun partying Ibiza so much as the morning after. What's great is that they offer good deals during the off season for hard-core surfer types and so I spent a few days here reacquainting myself with the ocean; they offer discounts to the surf school if you're staying at one of the Reef lodges. Word to the wise: it might be a good idea not to surf in October. I managed to get a dorm room to myself, which was nice as I could see how it would have been painfully cramped for four people. The rooms are at least en-suite, a major bonus in my book. They're also equipped with not-so-fancy flat screen TVs, though they're so awkwardly positioned that I suspect only two of four people could actually view it if they were in bed (which, incidentally, is the only place you can be in the room besides the bathroom). They have some interesting house rules though, including no food/drink in the rooms and they take a 30GBP deposit when you arrive to ensure that you don't break stuff or bring in unwelcome guests. Not a bad place, overall, though I think I'd tend to stay away during the high season unless I was appropriately tipsy.