Family Hotels and Child Friendly Accommodation in Cornwall UK

Cornwall is one of the most popular holiday destinations for families in the UK, particularly for Cornwall Holiday Parks, a superb selection of clean and safe family beaches around the coast and numerous family holiday attractions including adventure parks, farm adventure parks, surfing schools, waterparks, steam railways, zoos and top family museums such as Cornwall's maritime museum in Falmouth. Two great Cornwall family waterparks are located in Newquay and near Wadebridge.

Newquay tops the family holiday charts by far with it's choice of beaches, wide selection of family holiday accommodation and numerous attractions in and around the area. Close behind it though is marvellous family holiday hotspot Hayle to the Far West of Cornwall. Hayle has a great family sandy beach backed on by sand dunes or 'Towans'. Both St Austell Bay and Mount's Bay are also popular with families offering great beaches and a choice of family holiday and static caravan parks. Cornwall has family holidays well covered!

Most hotels, guesthouses, Youth Hostels, bunkhouses and holiday and caravan parks welcome children these days and will provide cots, highchairs and so forth on request. Special deals are usually on offer where children under 12 stay free, and many accommodation venues offer superb family rooms. Self-catering options such as all inclusive family caravan parks and holiday parks offer flexibility to families - essential when you've a few kids in tow, and the all-inclusive family vacation packages are often the cheaper option with enough entertainment for the kids on-hand to keep them happy through the holiday. Find Cornwall holiday parks in and around key Cornwall seaside resorts, near popular Cornwall family attractions and family friendly beaches, for example around Newquay, Bude, St Austell Bay and Gorran Haven, Mount's Bay and Cornwall family holiday favourite Looe in East Cornwall! Not forgetting one of the most popular Cornwall locations for cheap family holidays - Hayle, with it's stunning sand dune towans beach!

Cornwall Family Holidays

Newquay is tops for Cornwall Family holidays, with a choice of B&B guest houses, surfing hotels, caravan and holiday parks and self catering holiday cottages. Newquay's central main bay conveniently sits adjacent to the town centre and many of the surfing clothing shops, surfing schools and restaurants, pubs and fast food outlets. Newquay beaches in Newquay Bay include Great Western Beach, Towan Beach, Tolcarne Beach and delightful cove beach Lusty Glaze. This is where the peak season Cornwall holiday crowds head, and these four beaches combined offer 1 mile of beautiful sandy beach at low tide, perfect for families and beginner surfers generally although occasionally Newquay Bay beaches are the only ones where surfing is allowed on windy days when the weather is up.

There's a choice of great family beaches around Cornwall. Some of the best can be found around St Austell Bay, particularly Mevagissey and Gorran Haven which also have a choice of family holiday parks. Another top favourite with families is Hayle near St Ives with it's glorious Hayle Towans (sand dune) beach and numerous family holiday parks. Carbis Bay and St Ives are also popular with families, as is Looe Beach on the East Cornwall coast. The Padstow area is also picking up with families offering a choice of beaches, including Constantine and Padstow Bay, plus easy access to the new family Camel Trail which is perfect for family cycling.

The Eden Project near St Austell is one of the UK's top family attractions, with lots of interactive stuff going on here to keep the kids happy. On offer are two vast biomes or giant greenhouses, one a humid tropics biome and one a warm temperatures region. Also open to visitors is an area referred to as the outdoor biome, which contains more hardy plants including local Cornwall plants. Inside both biomes is indeed a celebration of nature, with plants jostling for place and care for the environment explored through not just exhibitions of plants but through artwork, lectures, storytelling, workshops and events including music events.

Cornwall Family Adventure Parks, Farm Holidays & Cornwall Waterparks

Located within Trenance Gardens just inland from the Newquay coast is fabulous holiday leisure complex Waterworld. A guaranteed family fun day out for all, with two large swimming pools one of which is a Tropical Fun Pool the kids will love. All the favourite waterslides and activities are to be found in the Tropical Fun pool including water cannons, slides, spitting water snakes and crocodiles grrrrrr, and there's even an erupting volcano and flumes. Fantastic! For a full timetable and programme of events including swimming lessons, Aquacise, Parent & Baby and Leisure Swim sessions.

Not far from Newquay is one of the best family days out to be had at Crealy - 'Cornwall's Great Adventure Park'. It's definitely worth taking the short drive from Newquay to this fun packed waterpark located just minutes from the A30 on the A39 between Newquay and Padstow! Wild water rides, animal parks and shire horses, an Enchanted Realm for the under 5s, 100 acres of stunning Cornwall countryside, and slides and rides galore. It's all here at Crealy Funpark. You'll need a day for this one!

Check out the marvellous family attraction at Land's End - the Land's End experience. The complex is fully equipped with parking, a choice of shops with everything from Cornish Sweet shops to daa, the First and Last Shop. Tongue in cheek indeed. There's a very good choice of family restaurants with burger bars, pasty parlours and family pub restaurants galore. Attractions have a leaning towards all things King Arthur and Maritime. Cornwall is crammed with family holiday attractions galore, including steam railways near Newquay and in East Cornwall near Launceston, great family beaches and a family holiday feel at Looe, Hayle, Sennen Cove near Land's End, Carbis Bay and St Ives and of course holiday Newquay. For all things King Arthur Legend head to Tintagel on the North Cornwall Coast - great for kids - with the King Arthur's Great Hall attraction in Tintagel and laser show.

Cheap Cornwall Family Holidays

With 230 youth hostels across the UK, Youth Hostels remain one of the most extensive choices for group holidays at an affordable price. Youth Hostels offer much these days, including the obvious - low cost, but also high standards of service, safety and security and often exclusive use options. Some offer education packages linked to the National Curriculum, evening activities and group activities including walking and other outdoor activities. Accommodation type is mostly dormitory style, and some venues are camping barns which are converted farm buildings providing simple, self-catering accommodation. Find family friendly Cornwall Youth Hostels at various coastal Cornwall locations including family favourite Tintagel and King Arthur!, Perranporth with it's great beach and Lizard's Point.

Find Cornwall Caravan & Camping Parks all around the region but particularly in and around Newquay, Bude, Hayle, Mount's Bay, Falmouth, Mevagissey, Gorran Haven, St Austell and Looe in East Cornwall. Whatever your taste, from de-luxe holiday chalet homes minutes from some of Cornwall's exquisite beaches to caravan sites conveniently situated in Bodmin Moor, or around Saltash and the Tamar for walking and touring, or in fishing hotspot Looe for a spot of fishing in nearby Looe Harbour. With Cornwall's extremely warm climate, especially around the coast with the warming Gulf Stream, as compared to more northerly caravan hotspots, not surprisingly families flock to both Cornwall and Devon every year for budget family camping and caravanning holidays in the UK!

All Inclusive Cornwall Family Holidays, Holiday Parks and Caravan Parks

You can't beat a Cornwall holiday park for cost effective fun! In Cornwall there's a few family holiday parks which fall into the 10 best in the country - check out Tregarton Holiday Park in Gorran near St Austell! Cornwall Holiday Park and family caravan and camping park choice will amaze - find them in numerous locations around Cornwall including Newquay, Hayle, Gorran Haven and Mevagissey, Falmouth, Looe, Perranproth, Bude, Land's End, Mount's Bay, The Lizard - simply everywhere are Cornwall holiday caravan parks! Perfect for budget seaside Cornwall family holidays!

In most caravan and camping sites expect a basic or serviced land pitch of reasonable size for you to pitch your caravan, motor home. Electric hook-ups, toilet and shower block, washing facilities, chemical waste disposal, TV point and water, telephone, freezer and ice pack facility. A countryside location, a camp shop with basic caravan accessories such as camping gas, cleaning chemicals, buckets, etc. Local shops such as a grocers or off-license.

Caravanning, according to the Caravan Club statistics, is now the most popular holiday choice in the UK, taking up a 17% share of UK holiday spending. Caravanning is increasingly appealing, including advantages such as flexibility to roam as you please, and be your own holiday boss! Location choices are diverse, from Caravan Parks near golf courses, or historic sites, great walking country, or by the seaside. Some are located inside nature reserves or alongside rivers and streams. If you do lots of Caravanning, it's well worth being a member of the UK Caravan Club, www.caravanclub.co.uk. Once a member you can access all sorts of services including insurance packages, access to caravan sites at reduced rates which have been fully inspected for cleanliness and quality. They also offer much advice on issues like hiring motor homes and caravans, and identify sites with specific themes such as leisure, city break, and provide information on disabled access and the surrounding local areas.

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