Watergate Bay Hotel, Cornwall
Watergate Bay, Cornwall, TR8 4AA01637 860543
Contemporary beachside chic with stunning sea views, Watergate Bay Hotel in Cornwall offers luxury accommodation and award-winning dining.

- Beachside Location
- Extreme Academy
- Array of dining options
Watergate Bay Hotel, Cornwall Overview
- Parking
- Indoor Pool
- Hot Tub
- Sauna
- Gym
- Treatments
- Bar
- Restaurants
- Dog Friendly
- Children Welcome
- Complimentary Wifi
- Disabled Rooms
- Baby Listening
- Kids Clubs
- Conference Facilities
- Civil Ceremonies
- Baby Sitting
- Surfing
- Kite Surfing
- SUP
- Bodyboarding
- Handplaning
- Waveski
- Yoga
- Pilates
Cornwall Beach Hotel
A contemporary coastal hotel that embraces a way of life, Watergate Bay Beach Hotel in Cornwall provides excellent food, beautiful scenery, relaxation, fresh air and good clean fun. Perfect for couples, families, friends and special occasions, Watergate Bay is one of the best luxury hotels in Cornwall, with views of the sea and the surrounding coastline.
Styled uniquely, every room in the hotel is fresh and funky – tastefully bright colours reflect the beauty of the coastline and vintage touches add an elegant touch. This is the best of contemporary architecture and design working in harmony with the natural surroundings. And you are welcomed with open arms.
Luxury Hotel in Cornwall
Inside Watergate Bay Hotel, there is everything that you could possibly wish for to experience a luxury hotel in Cornwall break no other. Chic bedrooms with a modern beach hut feel – oak floors, fresh colour palettes and vintage-inspired fabrics – plus individual features such a freestanding bath in the window or private balcony.
Some rooms offer glorious views of the two-mile beach and are individually styled with their own distinct personality. You can choose from a range of rooms and suites of different sizes offering varying views – all feature Watergate Bay’s unique funky style and amenities.
Watergate Bay Restaurants
Food and drink at Watergate Bay in Cornwall celebrates the best of the county – the local produce, raw talent and relaxed beachside living. Dine at Zachry’s Restaurant where the European inspired menu changes on a daily basis to reflect the best available ingredients and dishes are presented with award-winning flair.
The Living Space – the hotel’s bar which offers light bites that would put many eateries to shame. A relaxed open area with stunning sea views, laid back seating and a bright cheerful atmosphere, the Living Space is the perfect place to unwind with friends or family.
Swim Club at Watergate Bay Hotel
Everything about Watergate Bay Hotel is fresh and funky – and the amazing Swim Club is no different. A 25-metre infinity pool, a studio for fitness classes and yoga and cardio room are all set within a contemporary and colourful zone, offering the chance to keep fit whilst absorbing the beauty of the beach. Indulge in a pampering beauty treatment or bubble away in the Canadian hot tub or clifftop sauna, both with stunning coastal views on the open terraces.
Activities at Watergate Bay
With a 2 mile stretch of beach just a few miles from Newquay, Watergate Bay Hotel knows just how to make the most of the elements with the Extreme Academy sports school – bringing the best of mountain activities down to the beach. Enjoy surfing, stand-up paddle boarding, kite surfing, waveski and a whole range of other fun activities with lessons from the professionals. With great events, a shop and places to eat as well, the Extreme Academy is the ultimate cool hangout for all the family.
Facilities
Watergate Bay in Cornwall is the perfect venue for special occasions, either a social gathering, a business event, or a wedding. A designated Event Space boasts impressive views of the Atlantic Ocean and is achingly beautiful with oak flooring, timber panelled walls and 6-metre floor to ceiling glass doors that open out onto a clifftop terrace.
Families are welcomed at Watergate Bay Hotel, with fun activities and space in which kids can play safely whilst parents enjoy a spot of child-free time, children’s menus and the one thing that is guaranteed to keep kids happy – beach access.
From the excellent food and drink, to the superb leisure facilities, exquisite accommodation and unrivalled views, Watergate Bay Hotel in Cornwall is the perfect place to escape to at any time of year. Whether it is business or pleasure, a romantic break, family holiday or a gathering of friends that brings you to this beautiful part of the country, your stay at Watergate Bay will become a treasured memory.
Facilities
Food and Drink
Watergate Bay Cornwall has several unique options for food and drink – each with their own distinctive style. Zacry’s Restaurant offers award-winning dining within Watergate Bay Hotel itself, drawing from international influences to make each dish deliciously unique.
The Living Space restaurant offers a relaxed ambience with a lounge area seated on squishy sofas or at quirky dining tables while dining on Cornish light bites and Mediterranean-inspired platters to share, overlooking the picturesque beach.
With an impressive background at establishments such as Terence Conran’s Bluebird in London and Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen Cornwall, Neil Haydock, the Executive Chef of Fifteen Cornwall shares his passion for food, creating inventive dishes using a fusion of the Cornwall’s finest local produce and around the world inspiration.
For a relaxed breakfast, lunch, evening meal or just a glass of wine or beer whilst soaking up the beach atmosphere, the Beach Hut is the funkiest place to be. Think mouth-watering seafood dishes and divine burgers on the beach – this is Cornwall’s own slice of paradise.
Directly above The Beach Hut is Jamie Oliver’s successful social enterprise, Fifteen Cornwall – savour the delights of the Italian inspired menu, the charcoal-fired oven and play your own part in this charity. Part of the Cornwall Foundation of Promise, Fifteen empowers young unemployed people and sets them on the road to success – as well as creating simply delicious food.
Swim Club
Watergate Bay Hotel is the ultimate place to either relax or be active. Take your pick from the cardio room, the 25-metre ocean view infinity pool or venture into the studio to take part in a fitness class. Recline in style on the poolside terraces, or bask in the Canadian hot tub or ocean view sauna.
There are 3 beauty rooms including one double treatment room where you may indulge yourself in a luxurious treatment or two, or enjoy some time in their dedicated manicure and pedicure room overlooking the beach. Also in the Swim Club is the Ocean room – a huge chill-out zone with a cafe bar, gin cocktails and a delightful classic timber boardwalk that takes you down to the beach where there is surfboard storage and changing facilities.
Extreme Academy
What better way to make the most of two miles of glorious Cornwall seaside than sports activities, courtesy of the Extreme Academy sports school at Watergate Bay Cornwall? Whether you are a novice or an expert, you can get involved with surfing, kitesurfing, traction kite, waveski, stand up paddle surf and hand planing. If you aren’t sure what appeals to you the most, take part in a ‘pic n mix’ style Extreme Day and have a go at everything.
Families at Watergate Bay
Kids will love Watergate Bay Hotel – with two miles of beach brimming with rock pools and caves ripe for exploration, plus a range of dedicated kids’ activities. The Ofsted registered Kids Zone and XA Club allows children to enjoy activities and play safely, whilst parents enjoy some child-free time during morning and evening supervised sessions. Baby listening and babysitting services are available, and for the times when your children dine with you, they will love the special kid’s menu.
Dog Friendly Hotel in Cornwall
The beach at Watergate Bay Hotel Cornwall is open to dogs all year round, so take advantage of this by booking your four-legged friend into a room with you. Dogs can also stay in the ground and the first floor of the Ocean Wing rooms and Coach House rooms.
Rooms

Standard Rooms are crisp and bright, and the fresh beauty of the beach is recreated to perfection. The comfiest of beds, beautiful swathes of colour and cute furniture make these rooms little seaside havens. An en suite bathroom, TV, DVD players, MP3 docking station, telephone, complimentary broadband, tea and coffee facilities and 24 hour room service ensure that your every need has been attended to. As standard rooms are located throughout the different areas of Watergate Bay Hotel, some have sea views, some are front facing and some are rooms in the Coach House, which although it doesn’t offer a coastal view, still contains a cool seaside ambience. A few of their standard rooms are interconnecting to ensure that families of all sized have a sense of flexibility.
Watergate Bay’s Best Rooms offer much more space than other rooms. Most of the Best Rooms enjoy a glorious sea view and have unique features such as a deep bay window or a private balcony with dual aspect over the beach and the coastline or a sedating roll-top, free-standing bath within the bedroom. These rooms also include an en-suite bathroom, TV, DVD players, MP3 docking station, telephone, complimentary broadband, tea and coffee facilities and 24 hour room service. Watergate Bay’s identifying trademark of contemporary design style flows throughout these rooms, each uniquely decorated with its own distinct character and inspired by the beauty of the beach.
The two suites of Watergate Bay pride themselves on their picturesque coastal views of their soft sand beach and sea with an open plan layout, allowing the natural light to flood through and illuminate these grandiose suites. A stand alone bath nestles beside the large bay windows and the beautiful en-suites feature a double walk in shower, double basin and toilet and double rain dome shower heads. For your upmost comfort, the seating area within these uniquely boutique suites include a day bed, chairs, desk and TV. A full length vintage styled mirror and folding French windows add extra antiqued charm to these bright, open spaces.
The Watergate Bay Hotel’s pride themselves upon the comfort they provide for families and to ensure this, their Family Suites feature a spacious bedroom containing a king-sized bed with a seperate room containing bunk beds for the children. Most of these suites sleep a family of five perfectly and can also supply a cot with a few also being dog friendly. The characteristic beach chic design compliments the scenic views from their beach fronted windows.
Christmas Breaks 2022
Christmas and New Year at Watergate Bay is always special.
The halls will be decked, the trees up, fires stoked and miles of empty beach waiting.
Presents first thing or post-feast? Leisurely beach stroll or life-affirming sea swim?
We all have our different Christmas traditions.
Prices per night, based on two people sharing, from....
£365
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Pilates Break
Are you looking for the perfect, relaxation break? Enjoy two gorgeous nights by the sea on selected dates, including a variety of Pilates workshops and classes, a delicious dinner each evening and a hearty breakfast each morning. Prices per person starting from
£380
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Yoga Break
Clear your mind and escape from reality with this incredible two night escape beside the sea, including a variety of Yoga workshops and classes both indoors and outdoors, dinner at Zacry's each evening and a hearty breakfast each morning. Prices per person from
£365
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