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
- 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.
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.