The words Padstow and Rick Stein go together like fish and chips, and his flagship restaurant offers stylish rooms so you can totter up to bed after your fill of the sea.

Sink into a recliner on the terrace at this cliff-top hotel, and you can gaze out at ‘panoramic sea views’ over Gerrans Bay – or lie back and think of New England, prompted by the seaside-chic decor.

'The location is stunning, the views as the sun sets truly magical’ from this family-run, cliff-top hotel and spa, with acres of Scandi-style relaxation space, squashy sofas, and plenty of things to do, from relaxing in a spa pool to surfing at the beach.

A seaside hotel with serious style, Olga Polizzi's glowing white collection of cottages and former yacht clubhouse cascading down the hillside is a cross between New England and Mediterranean Riviera.

'A haven of tranquillity from the moment you arrive', this pub-with-rooms in a pretty Cornish fishing village gets full marks from readers who praise its 'amazing rooms, food and views'.

'There is a Celtic feel' to Charles and Edmund Inkin's pub and its surrounds, 'with views of the Atlantic and the moors and tors of Penwith', writes a reader on a return visit.

Above sandy Summerleaze Beach, Susie and Will Daniel’s young-at-heart hotel is a great hang-out for surfers, sybarites and sun-seekers (Bude is officially one of the sunniest places in Britain).

Susan Stuart’s welcoming Georgian town house B&B is so beautiful, it might grace the pages of an interiors magazine.

With ancestral portraits gazing down from panelled walls, a Queen Anne facade overlooking a parterre, and extensive wooded grounds, the delightful Le Grice family's mansion 'feels more like a stately home than a B&B’.

‘A superb new addition to Robin Hutson’s Pig litter’ comes in the form of an atmospheric mansion that is part Georgian, part Jacobean, part medieval, just minutes from the beach and the South West Coast Path.

From sunrise to sunset, bask in ‘spectacular views’ of the Atlantic ocean from the Armstrong family’s child- and dog-friendly hotel above Fistral Beach.

With boats bobbing on the water and ‘magnificent’ vistas across the harbour, life on the water’s edge doesn’t come much closer than at this large hotel, the oldest in the maritime town.

Set above a terraced garden, with superb views of both beach and harbour in an ‘unspoilt gem’ of a fishing village, this whitewashed Edwardian hotel is run with ‘real care and pride'.

Up a sloping lane from the harbour, this revitalised Georgian coach house brims with a sense of fun.

Across the causeway from St Michael’s Mount, this beachfront restaurant-with-rooms, ‘tactfully modernised and enlarged’, is decorated with uplifting coastal colours and local artwork.

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

Walk through the ‘pretty’ garden to reach the Helford river from this spa hotel and golf resort.

A 25-seat cinema is a novelty at Karen and David Richards’ hotel in a village of white-painted houses on the Roseland peninsula, but no film can rival the wide-screen views over the Fal estuary from the waterside terrace.

‘In a glorious setting’ on the cliff-top with 'spectacular views', this Edwardian cathedral of a hotel that opened its doors in 1898 after being built by the Great Western Railway also has a 'really nice, welcoming atmosphere'.

The sybarite is like a kid in a sweetshop at Paul Ainsworth’s Georgian town house B&B on a quiet back street, where each of the six suites is a lavish confection, with foodie references at every turn.

By Penlee Park, this modern B&B has a pleasing mix of contemporary art and vintage furnishings, the stylish whole set against the period features of the immaculately restored Victorian house.