Updated: 19th December 2020

• Added Sundial and South West Coastal Path Viewpoint to Virtual tour

At low tide the beach is huge, It can get very busy on the town end, but there’s always room further along the beach in front of the dunes. There is even a pub literally on the beach, the Watering Hole, here you can enjoy a pint and food all day. The atmosphere is very relaxed and welcoming. Usually there is live live music in the evenings, but the last time I was there strangely their wasn’t for a Saturday night. It’s also a great place to sit and watch the sunset. We usually buy ourselves a takeaway and then enjoy it while sat on the dunes watching the sun go down. There are plenty of bins around to discard of your rubbish. We didn’t think to check the tides before arriving as we came from town using the shortcut and the tide was ankle deep over the bridge, so we had to wade through to get to the beach. Thankfully the water wasn’t cold.

When we’d had enough or were cold we all head into the pub, even without music it still had a good atmosphere. Saturday nights The Watering Hole closes at midnight. As we left walking back toward the road using our phones for a torch as there are no lights, to our surprise there were quite a few fireflies amongst the grass along the path, something I had never seen before in the UK.

We had arranged a taxi minibus to drop us off and pick us up as there were 13 of us. This turned out to be a mistake as taxis in Newquay (maybe even Cornwall) are some of the most expensive I have ever experienced and I’d go as far as saying the most expensive taxi in the world!! We were picked up at Trethiggey Holiday Park and driven to Perranporth beach next to Percy Davy Close which is 9 miles and should take 16 minutes, but it was more 25. We rang A2B Taxis and on the phone we were quoted £3 or £4 per person with return for 13 people. However it was Pat’s Cabs that turned up, the driver asked again where we were going as we got in. Once we were in the minibus and travelling he then asked how many of us, we said 13 and he responded with that’ll be £130!!!!!! £10 each, £5 per person for each way. WTF we aren’t doing an airport run to Heathrow ffs!! He said they got the destination mixed up on the phone, which is a likely story. To make things worse he wanted the whole bill up front. We argued this as we said we had no guarantee that he would even come back as he would already have all our money and therefore could do a runner, so he wrote a receipt and signed it and still insisted on the full fare. To his due, he did pick us up again at midnight on the dot, but none of us were happy with the service and all felt that we had been totally ripped off. I expected the bill to be more around £70 and even then I thought that would’ve been on the expensive side.

If you don’t want to be completely ripped off DO NOT use A2B Taxis or perhaps any taxis at all, it’s probably best to drive yourself.