Walking

Walking

Easy Walks

There are lots of local walks that can be as short or as long as you like(using the Parish Map for guidance).

  • Trebah and Glendurgan Gardens within walking distance. Trebah tickets from reception (book on-line and receive a complimentary ticket for Trebah Gardens for each member of your party).
  • Ferry Boat Inn-- for coffee or lunch or to hire a boat, within walking distance. (1 mile)
  • Red Lion Pub — for lunch, within walking distance. (1.5 miles)
  • Shipwrights Arms —a short ferry ride from the foreshore or the Ferry Boat Inn, for coffee, lunch or tea
  • From the foreshore or Ferry Boat Inn, to Helford village for walks around Helford area.
  • From the foreshore or Ferry Boat Inn, a boat trip to the local gardens.

More Difficult Walks

Longer walks along coast (to Falmouth) or inland to Budock Water, Penjerrick Gardens, Port Navas and Constantine. (There is a local bus service, for the return trip if required, but its not very frequent in the winter). More on walking here.

Walking Tours

See details of our Walking Break here. Guided walks from Walkitcornwall

WEST CORNWALL WALKING BREAK

Below are details of our 2008 Walking Break. Please call us on 01326 252100 for details of 2009 breaks.

Six leisurely paced walks with your guides from walkitcornwall, ranging from 2 to 4 miles each over three days, allow you to discover and understand the flavours of Cornwall that have defined the County over the past few centuries. Whilst concentrating on Cornwall's unique natural history and culture, the County's industrial and nautical heritage are also brought alive through physically exploring a variety of sites and habitats on both circular and linear walks. We will also explore many themes of Cornwall from geology, botany and birdlife to the industrial maritime and Celtic history of this unique Atlantic Archipelago. In addition, we hope to provide you with some opportunity to simply relax and perhaps spoil yourself with some of the treatments on offer in our Natural Health Spa.

Five nights from 27th April - 1st May 2008 inclusive, departing Friday 2nd May 2008

£550 per person in
Standard room
accommodation

£615 per person in
Superior room
accommodation 

This price includes:

  • Room accommodation per person for 5 nights
  • Five-course dinner & coffee every evening
  • Full English breakfast
  • Six leisurely paced guided walks between 2 and 4 miles each over three days to include the Roseland Peninsula, The North Coast between St Ives and Lands End and The Lizard/Helford River
  • Experts to accompany the group during the walk
  • A printed guide for each guest outlining features of the week's walks
  • Transportation to and from walks where necessary
  • Golf, swimming, sauna, outdoor hot tub, tennis and snooker all inclusive

This Special package cannot be booked online - Please call Reservations on 01326 252100

GUIDED WALKS FROM THE HOTEL

Put on your walking shoes and enjoy a guided walk around the local area, with Blue Badge Guide, John Price and local wildlife experts. Please contact reception to find out more ablut locl guided walks from the hotel grounds/foreshore.  Some walks might even include a trip in the Hannah Molly tides and weather permiting.

LOCAL WALKS

Picture yourself in this most beautiful and dramatic corner of England. Take in the same countryside and seascapes that inspired Daphne du Maurier, Winston Graham, Rosamunde Pilcher, Barbara Hepworth and of course, John Betjeman. His love affair with Cornwall began in his childhood and ended with the fulfilment of his wish to be buried here, but his inspiration lives on in his praise and prose of this splendid county...

"Ah! seaweed smells from sandy caves
And thyme and mist in whiffs,
In-coming tide, Atlantic waves
Slapping the sunny cliffs,
Lark song and sea sounds in the air
And splendour, splendour everywhere."

Reproduced from Betjeman's Cornwall by kind permission of John Murray, publishers.

Branching off from the South West Coast Path are myriad circular walks that take in the countryside, fishing villages and local history.
The coastline itself varies from peaceful tree-lined rivers and estuaries in the south, to rugged cliffs and breaking waves on sandy beaches along the north- and west-facing coasts.
And between them are the moorlands, river-valleys and National Trust properties with their Cornish manor houses and beautiful gardens.

Branching off from the South West Coast Path are myriad circular walks that take in the countryside, fishing villages and local history.

The coastline itself varies from peaceful tree-lined rivers and estuaries in the south, to rugged cliffs and breaking waves on sandy beaches along the north- and west-facing coasts. And between them are the moorlands, river-valleys and National Trust properties with their Cornish manor houses and beautiful gardens.

The Lizard Peninsula alone offers a wonderful range of clifftop, riverside, beach, and woodland walks - with several starting directly from the hotel.

Lizard Peninsula Walks
Listed below is a selection of circular walks from around the Lizard Peninsula - all within a ten-mile radius of Budock Vean.
The first five walks can be started from the hotel, as shown in the illustration above.

Name Miles Hours Grade
Rosemullion Head and the Carwinion Valley 5 3 Moderate
Mawnan Church and Rosemullion Head 2 1 Easy
Durgan and Porth Navas Creek 3½ 1½ Easy
Helford and Frenchman's Creek 3 2 Easy
Gillan Creek and St Anthony-in-Meneage 5 3 Easy
Porthallow, Gillan and Nare Point 4½ 2½ Moderate
St Keverne and Porthoustock 3½ 2 Easy
Coverack and Lowland Point 4 2½ Moderate
Coverack, Chynhalls Point and Black Head 7 3½ Tough
Poltesco, Ruan Minor and Cadgwith 3 1½ Easy
Cadgwith and the Devil's Frying Pan 2½ 1½ Easy
The Lizard, Church Cove and Cadgwith 4½ 2½ Easy
Lizard, Housel Bay and Bass Point 3½ 2½ Moderate
Kynance Cove and the Lizard 3½ 1½ Easy
Kynance Cove, Gew-Graze and Pigeon Ogo 3½ 2½ Moderate
Predannack and Kynance Farm Nature Reserve 3½ 1½ Easy
Mullion Cove and Predannack Head 4½ 2½ Moderate
Poldhu Cove and Mullion 4 2 Easy
Church Cove and Halzephron Cliff 3 1½ Easy
RNAS Culdrose Public Viewpoint and Gweek 5 2 Moderate
Around Loe Pool 5 3 Easy
Loe Bar and the Loe 2½ 1½ Easy

Reference: "Classic Walks: Cornwall" by Norton Publishing, PO Box 12, Camborne, TR14 OYG

From the hotel grounds you can take a walk along the south-facing bank of the Helford, stroll next door to Trebah Garden (open 365 days a year), have lunch at a waterside pub or take the ferry-boat from our jetty to Helford and meander along Frenchman's Creek.

At the hotel we have a large indoor swimming-pool opening out onto the patio, hot tub, sauna, a golf course, two all-weather tennis courts, a snooker room, a secluded foreshore sun-lounge and a natural health spa where ladies and gentlemen can enjoy a range of relaxation and beauty treatments, including foot massage and reflexology treatments.