Vellacourt Porthcove

Welcome to Porthcove

An Art Deco hotel on the cliffs above its own sandy cove, with a sea-water infinity pool, a seafood restaurant and the coast path at the end of the garden.

Style: Clifftop
Rooms and suites: 48
Building: From 1928
Check-in, check-out: 3pm, 11am
Good for: spa, pool, by the sea, family friendly, dogs welcome

01
The Salt Room
Lobster, crab and the day’s catch, with the Atlantic beyond the glass.
02
Infinity pool
A heated sea-water pool that seems to run into the ocean.
03
Private cove
Rock pools, surfing lessons and a beach hut café in summer.

The story

Since 1928

Built in 1928 for the first holidaymakers arriving on the Cornish Riviera Express, Porthcove still has its curved balconies and sun terraces. The cove below is reached by 94 steps, and is almost always ours alone.

Our fish comes in to Newlyn that morning, and our surf instructor is the fourth generation of his family to teach on this beach.

Stay

Rooms and suites

All rooms

Garden Room

26m² · Garden

From £325 a night

Sea View Room

30m² · Sea

From £435 a night

Balcony Suite

50m² · Sea, from a curved balcony

From £680 a night

Eat and drink

The Salt Room

A curved dining room with windows on three sides and the sea beneath. Fish from Newlyn, oysters from the Helford.

The Salt Room Seafood
Sun Deck Terrace bar

Menus and tables

Spa

The Sea Spa

A sea-water infinity pool, a cliff-edge hot tub, and treatments using Cornish seaweed.

Heated sea-water infinity pool
Clifftop hot tub
Sauna and steam
Five treatment rooms

Treatments and prices

Gallery

Offers

At Porthcove

Every hotel

Stay longer

Stay three nights, and the third is on us.

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4 hotels

Spa escape

Two nights, breakfast, and a 60-minute treatment each.

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4 hotels

Dogs’ weekend

Bring the dog. We’ll bring the bed, the bowls and the sausages.

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Getting here

Find us

Porthcove
near St Ives
Cornwall TR26

01632 960 160
porthcove@vellacourt.example

Train: St Erth station is 15 minutes by car; London Paddington to St Erth is about five hours, including the Night Riviera sleeper.
Car: Five hours from London. Free parking and EV chargers. Newquay Airport is 45 minutes away.

Nearby

St Ives 10 min drive
Galleries, harbour beaches and the best pasties in Cornwall.
South West Coast Path At the garden gate
Walk west to the old mine engine houses at the tip of Cornwall.
Minack Theatre 40 min drive
An open-air theatre cut into the cliffs.