Hotel Tresanton

South Cornwall


Long the choice for sojourning celebs and film stars, Olga Polizzi's ritzy St Mawes establishment is still the queen of the castle in St Mawes. Chilled checks, sea stripes and deluxe fabrics in the bedrooms, plus little extras including a private cinema, motor launch and award-winning bistro. It's a wallet-buster, but one to remember.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby South Cornwall attractions

1. St Mawes Castle

0.24 MILES

Strategically sited to command an uninterrupted field of fire over the entrance to Falmouth Bay in tandem with Pendennis Castle, on the opposite side of…

2. St Anthony's Head

1.14 MILES

The remains of a turn-of-the-century gun battery can still be seen along the point at St Anthony's Head. Just along the coast is the peninsula's 1835…

3. Pendennis Castle

1.41 MILES

Designed in tandem with its sister castle in St Mawes across the estuary, this Tudor castle sits proudly on Pendennis Point, and was built as part of…

4. St-Just-in-Roseland

1.68 MILES

The creekside church of this sleepy village is quite possibly the prettiest in Cornwall – and in this ecclesiastically minded county, there’s no shortage…

5. National Maritime Museum

1.9 MILES

Falmouth's most high-profile museum is located on the revamped area around Discovery Quay. It's the sister outpost of the National Maritime Museum in…

6. Gyllyngvase Beach

2.35 MILES

The nearest beach to town is a flat sandy stretch, known to locals as Gylly. It's about half a mile south of the town centre and is backed by the popular…

7. Portscatho

2.49 MILES

Portscatho was formerly one of the busiest pilchard ports on Cornwall’s south coast. The village boasts one of the county’s largest granite breakwaters,…

8. Swanpool Beach

2.77 MILES

South of Falmouth lies the popular beach of Swanpool, near a small inland lagoon populated by grebes, coots, ducks and mute swans. A coastal path runs…