This week’s dream: a laid-back trip along the ...

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

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

I’m awake. Very awake. It’s early on a wind-whipped Sunday morning and I’m neck-deep in the sea off the Isle of Man’s north-east coast. The rain is steady, the swell is heavy and the water is gaspindu

Grey days getting you down? Time to book a Caribbean getaway to feel the sun on your skin and sand between your toes

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