Soar Mill Cove Hotel
It’s all about the sublime seaside setting at Keith Makepeace’s family-centric, dog-friendly hotel with ‘amazing views to take your breath away’. More
Good Hotel Guide Review
It’s all about the sublime seaside setting at Keith Makepeace’s family-centric, dog-friendly hotel with ‘amazing views to take your breath away’. A trail leads to ‘a beautiful, uncrowded beach with splendid rocks’, and there is easy access to the South West Coast Path. Simple but stylish bedrooms look out to sea or over rolling National Trust countryside, from floor-to-ceiling glass doors and a private patio. It is small wonder, then, that the low-slung hotel is ‘a favourite place’ for many returning guests. ‘I love everything about it,’ writes a reader who has been going for 30 years and finds it ‘like a second home’. Guide insiders with a house nearby drop in often. ‘On fine days we eat our bar lunch or cream tea on a sunny terrace. Service is always good, the food original and delicious, including lovely risotto with asparagus.’ In the light-filled, sea-facing dining room, Ian MacDonald’s menus are big on local fish and shellfish – lobster, crab, Exe mussels – and include a vegan option. ‘What more could you ask for?’ ‘Can’t wait to go again.’ (Gerald Taylor, Harriet Morris, Louisa Walker, and others)
Hotel details
Address
Soar Mill Cove
Salcombe
Devon
TQ7 3DS
England
Telephone
01548 561566
Bedrooms
22. 21 on ground floor.
Open
all year, except 2 Jan–7 Feb.
Facilities
lounge, bar, restaurant, coffee shop, in-room TV (Freeview), indoor spring-fed swimming pool, spa, gym, civil wedding licence, 10-acre grounds (tennis), public rooms wheelchair accessible, adapted toilet.
Background music
in public areas.
Children
all ages welcomed.
Dogs
allowed in all but 1 bedroom, bar, coffee shop.
Credit cards
Amex, MC, Visa.
Prices
per room B&B £199–£429, D,B&B £299–£469. À la carte £39. 1-night bookings refused holiday weekends.
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Special offers
Spring Outdoors Escape Special Offer
Exclusively for Good Hotel Guide – Spring Outdoors Escape. Enjoy a Complimentary Signature Picnic with all Dinner B&B breaks in April, May & June 2021. From £337 per person based on 2 adults sharing a Country View Room for 2 nights. Applies to stays of 2 nights+. Excludes May Half Term. To benefit from this offer, please mention The Good Hotel Guide when booking.
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This hotel accepts discount vouchers which entitle readers to a 10% discount off their normal B&B rate for a single night’s stay. To take advantage of this offer, you must present the voucher at the time of booking.
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