You can order a picnic hamper and walk down to a private beach through lovely gardens at Paul and Fiona Robinson’s New England-inspired hotel, or just relax on the deck, gazing across Gerrans Bay.

Overlooking Summerleaze surfers’ beach, with its 1930s tidal pool and brightly coloured beach huts, the Victorian Summerleaze Court Hotel has been reinvented in hip New England style.

‘One of our favourite hotels,’ enthuses a reader about Teresa and Kevin O’Sullivan’s quirky and luxurious cliff-top hideaway in this south Cornish seaside hamlet.

‘We found seats on the attractive terrace’ with ‘views across St Mawes harbour to Falmouth Bay’ reports a lunchtime visitor to Caroline and David Richards’s ‘superb’ hotel.

Chef Paul Ainsworth’s parents owned a Southampton guest house, where dinner might be dad’s corned beef hash with Bisto gravy. His own enterprises are more high end, the rooms here complementing Michelin-starred Paul Ainsworth at No. 6 in downtown Padstow.

Attracting foodies from near and far, this hybrid of informal guest house and restaurant occupies a 16th-century farmhouse, among acres of meadows and woodland.