A short uphill walk from the harbour, this revitalised Georgian coach house brims with a sense of stylish fun.

There is a friendly, open-house ambience at Susan Stuart’s beautiful B&B with views over the harbour and Mount’s Bay: drop into the kitchen at any time for coffee, cake and a chat.

‘My favourite hotel anywhere in the world,’ writes a reader, of this welcoming pub-with-rooms in an enchanting fishing village.

Across the causeway from St Michael’s Mount, light streams into this ‘tactfully modernised and enlarged’ beachfront restaurant-with-rooms.

Friendly, unfussy, effortlessly stylish, Charles and Edmund Inkin’s dining pub ‘retains a sense of the peacefulness, remoteness and wildness that make this part of the world so very lovely’.

In a pretty village that slopes down to the bay, this ‘friendly’ inn with a view over the water has ‘the feel of a boutique hotel’.

Welcome to cloud nine, an adults-only hotel floating above Carbis Bay, where you can sit over a cream tea on a decked terrace, away from the bustle of hip, arty St Ives.

After a day browsing the galleries of this buzzy, arty town, you can escape the crowds to sit serenely sipping cocktails in the sub-tropical gardens at Malcolm Herring’s small hotel.

This Victorian mid-terrace B&B, overlooking the harbour, zings with light from its white-washed exterior to its blue-and-white colour scheme and original paintings by St Ives artists.