Whether you’re seeking private hot tubs, pools or pontoons, enjoy a week of luxury by spreading the costs between friends and family. Here are some of our favourite self-catering stays in Cornwall for 2026

Frazzled from what felt like a never-ending year, we booked into South Lodge hoping for a quiet countryside reset – and it certainly delivered. The Reeds is a cluster of eco-lodges set on the edge of

coast editor-in-chief Alex Fisher spends a few days at the Scarlet hotel, an adults-only eco-retreat perched above Mawgan Porth Beach on the north Cornish coast

LEISURE

We arrive in the New Forest under a curtain of torrential rain; windscreen wipers on full throttle, headlights catching glimpses of muntjac deer as gusts batter the car. Crawling up a winding dirt tra

Approaching The Gunton Arms, we quickly realised it’s not your average local. It is a pub, but one set in a 1,000-acre deer park in rural Norfolk, kitted out in furnishings to rival posh department st