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Pro
Great scenery and beaches, Quaint individual shops, cobbled streets give the place character.
Con
Difficult to park your car in high season, the seagulls pinch the food out of your hand!
In a nutshell
Beautiful little town with lovely beaches and lots to see!!!
Go For A Beer - #4 The Lifeboat Inn
johngayton Says: This pub has an unbeatable location overlooking Harbour Beach and externally is a hell-of-a-looker with its inviting doorway and window looking out onto the view. Internally this is so obviously a pubco pub but, and it is quite a but as normally being a pubco pub would be...
Go For A Beer - #3 The Castle Inn
johngayton Says: Now this was much more like it!! The Castle is a traditional-looking pub from the outside with its mullioned srtained glass windows through which the diffused subtle lighting, along with the propped open door were immediately inviting. A friendly welcome from the...
Go For A Beer - #2 The Union Inn
johngayton Says: From the outside this loked like it was going to be a proper pub but inside was a total disappointment. Admittedly I'd dropped in late lunchtime and most people were eating but I didn't get a particularly warm welcome from the barman and the place felt a bit souless - there...
johngayton Says: I didn't have time for this on my afternoon visit but I'll definitely make the time for it when I next get down this neck of the woods and probably double up with the Barbara Hepworth museum. It's interesting to note that you get a £1 reduction on the entrance price if you...
Go For A Beer - #1 The Sloop Inn
johngayton Says: Having stuck to my principle of never having a drink until I've done something either creative, constructive or energetic I reckoned my wanders around the town pretty much fulfilled all three criteria and so it was definitely BEER TIME.St Ives' oldest pub is the Sloop Inn,...
johngayton Says: Unfortunately this was shut when I visited - it closes down between the start of November until the beginning of April - but it does look like an interesting little local history museum.It's only £2 entrance and the exhibits focus on things like the fishing industry, the...
1 Review and 437 Opinions The Boskerris is a small, family run hotel located in Carbis Bay, a few miles out of St Ives. We...
1 Review and 100 Opinions We went for dinner. We may still be there. 50 minutes for a starter. Half an hour later a small main...
Porthgwidden Beach Cafe: Great food, great views, and dolphins!
londonbabe Says: Well, this really was a dolphin-friendly meal! Just as I was finishing my main course, the waitress said ' look, dolphins!' And there in the bay, very close to shore, was a school of dolphin, playing beside the fishing boats. Anyway, back to the restaurant. It's perched...
Myring's Cornish Fudge & Rock Shop: Yummy Cornish Fudges!!!
aadil Says: Cornish Fudges of varied types and made of all different types of nuts and interesting combinations worth tasting and trying out atleast once!!! Rum & Raisin, Walnut, Ginger, Almond and sooooo many more!!!
One Of The UK's Most Scenic Rail Routes
johngayton Says: The short, 4.25 miles, length of single track of the St Ives Bay Line definitely is well worth taking the train for in its own right. The line was built in 1877 to provide freight services for the pilchard trade and passenger services to the upcoming seaside resort. It...
Leave the car if going to St. Ives in summer.
Tricky_Dicky69 Says: Parking in St. Ives is a real pain in the height of summer so if you're just visiting for the day do yourself a favour and use the park and ride. Leave the car and catch the train in. This will save money and a load of time and grief. Trains run frequently from the park and...
Wharf Post Office: Where To Get Your Postcards And...
johngayton Says: ...stamps and where to post them!!Whilst there are plenty of places around the town to buy postcards buying them here has the advantage of being able to get the correct stamps - especially for sending abroad - plus the post box is right outside. You just need to pop down to...
The Smock shop: The local look
Sjalen Says: Since you are never far from the coast in Cornwall, fishing plays a big part of local life, and Cornish fishermen have long worn these "smocks" to protect their own clothing underneath. For the same reason, the smocks later became very popular with all the artists who also...
johngayton Says: From my only visit, so far, I can easily understand why St Ives has developed as an artists community. The relative lack of development (Tate Gallery aside LOL), the fresh Celtic Sea to wash the cobwebs away, the amazing light, which I'll extrapolate to even when it's cold...
A Little Piece Of Local History
johngayton Says: Pictured is the Grade II listed archway which used to lead to the home of the "Portreeve" (a sort of harbour master) George Hicks. George was Portreeve from 1611 until 1624 but doesn't seem to have done anything particularly remarkable except having lived here, unlike one of...
One Hates To Be Political...But...
johngayton Says: ...maybe our present (UK as of Oct 2012) government should take note.Another pic I just wanted to use and so totally supercilliously have stuck here LOL.But that's the St Ives effect isn't it? Get the creative juices running and don't give a damn about the results.
Sjalen Says: You can drive to St Ives if you want to have a holiday here and intend to use it for driving around the wonderful countryside, but whatever you do, please do not drive down Treganna Hill and into the harbour area unless you absolutely must because of mobility issues or...
Sjalen Says: There are a number of walking trips to be done from St Ives, all depending on how far you want to go, and you can buy booklets in most bookshops as well as the tourist office and other places to guide you. The South West Coast Path which runs along the coast of England comes...
Sjalen Says: There are several surf schools with board and wetsuit rentals in the St Ives area. The one in the picture is the one at Porthmeor Beach, the surf friendly beach right in the town centre but that one does not seem to have a website, you just have to turn up and book. Here at...
An Urban Taste Of Atlantic Wildness
johngayton Says: Known locally as "The Island" the promontory that juts out into the sea was once topped with a fortress - it's old name was Pandinas, meaning "fortified headland". Nowadays it has the St Ives lookout station of the National Coastwatch Institution which was formerly used by...
Sjalen Says: Dolphins appear in St Ives summertime and into early autumn when the water is warm enough. The first time we were here we did not see any, but the second time around we were luckier and my daughter even got to surf with one fishing nearby! They pop up at different times...
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We came here for the first time summer 2009, as we had seen and heard that it was scenic and I had wanted to go to Cornwall for years and years. I guess it was the distance that made me wait so long...
I went to St Ives in 2003 with a large group of friends and we stayed at the St Ives Holiday Village which is owned and run by John Fowler Holidays. The park consists mostly of chalet's that you can...
Wonderful scenery and great food!
St Ives, tucked in a corner of the North Cornwall coast, has been an inspiration for artists for many years. When you arrive, blinking, from grimy London after a five hour train ride, the first thing...
St Ives is situated on Cornwall's rugged north coast and has something for everyone. There are lovely beaches for swimming and surfing, a nice harbour for boat trips for sighseeing or fishing, quant...
St. Ives in the Cornish Riviera
I stayed in St. Ives from Thursday March 10 to Sunday March 13, 2005. It took me 5 1/2 hours to train from Paddington Station London with a 10 min. transfer at St. Erth station. I had a touch of the...
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