If you’re visiting Cornwall for work or pleasure this summer, get in touch and we’d be delighted to add on a visit to one of the following.

Discover Cornwall’s hidden valley hotel, gardens & restaurant: Set along a quiet country lane at Mawnan Smith between Falmouth and the Helford River, Hotel Meudon is the only hotel located in nine acres of Cornish subtropical gardens and with access to its own secluded beach, Bream Cove. The aspirational setting is integral to the food and drink, from the freshest oysters to gin distilled within minutes of the hotel. Enjoy lunch or afternoon tea in the exotic gardens or stylish drawing room.

Enjoy wood-fired cooking at its finest: Located less than a mile from picture-perfect Carbis Bay - home to this year’s G7 summit - luxury self-catering resort Una St Ives is home to contemporary bistro, Una Kitchen. From pizzas to St Ives Bay mackerel fillet and classic Sunday roast with a twist, look forward to Glenn Gatland’s Mediterranean-inspired food cooked to perfection over flames. Add on some time at the Spa at Una with its extensive range of pampering and holistic treatments, a sun-lit 15-metre swimming pool, jacuzzi and steam rooms. 

Tackle Via Ferrata Cornwall: Via Ferrata is an Italian term that means ‘iron path’. Thought to have originated in the Alps, the most common association is with the Italian Dolomites, where troops used the climbing routes to move around the mountains during the First World War.  The South West’s premier Adrenaline centre, Via Ferrata Cornwall, is the first of its kind in the south of England. The 60-acre site, which opened last summer near Penryn, provides the ultimate high-wire and climbing route around a disused granite quarry. Traverse cliff faces, climb iron rungs, cross the high wire Burma Bridge and zip back down to ground level, seeing views out over Falmouth Bay and the Lizard peninsula last seen nearly 100 years ago. 

Savour the spirit of Cornwall: Step inside Cornwall’s first plough to bottle distillery, Colwith Farm Distillery to see how their award-winning Aval Dor Vodka (as featured in Rick Stein’s Cornwall TV series) is made from scratch. The tour – a step by step guide to how potatoes from the fifth-generation family farm are turned into delicious spirits – is then followed by a tutored tasting of the Colwith Farm Distillery vodkas and gins. Bottles are also available to buy to take home. The 1.5 hour tours operate Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday at 2 pm.

Not booked your accommodation yet? There are still nights available at the Fir Hill Estate glamping near Newquay. A once neglected and almost forgotten woodland estate, the 62-acre Fir Hill has been restored by the Hoblyn family to include a glamping site with 12 Mongolian yurts, including two new additions for 2021. Guests can explore on foot or by mountain bike, go fishing and birdwatching at Porth Reservoir (a designated bird sanctuary) and stargaze around the campfire by night.

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For more information contact Samantha Kirton, Hayley Newnham and Lucy Jenner-Brown at Hope Yard PR: hy@hopeyardpr.com 0778 616 6556.