Enjoy our luxury 3 bedroom, caravan located on Newperran Holiday Resort between Perranporth and Newquay. This family friendly park has a lovely indoor pool and great bar and restaurant. You'll love it!
Perranporth is an area shrouded in Cornish myth and legend. It is said that in the 5th century AD Saint Piran, the patron saint of Cornish miners, was tied to a mill-stone and thrown off the cliffs in Ireland.
Rather than sinking, the seas immediately became calm and he floated across the water all the way to Cornwall, where he washed up on Perran Sands, adjacent to Perranporth. Saint Piran built a Christian oratory behind the beach, whose ruins still stand today.
Today, Perranporth’s Atlantic swell attracts surfers from far and wide, but it is a little known fact that the very roots of British surfing are owed to the area. In the 1930s, after seeing the popularity of surfing in countries such as Australia and South Africa, Brits returning home were determined to acquire their own boards. Tom Tremewan, a Perranporth local, created some of Britain’s earliest surfboards from whatever wood he had handy, including coffin lids!
For more information on the history of Perranporth, the Perranzabuloe museum is located just off Perranporth’s high street and has displays on the social and industrial heritage of the area, including mining, farming, surfing and fishing.
Though surfing and swimming are certainly the headline acts at Perranporth Beach, there's a wealth of alternative activities to undertake in the area. Experience the sea in new ways with the selection of water sports offered by local companies, or float about on the surface with a snorkel while gazing on the marine life below.
The beach is easily accessible which is ideal if you’ve got young ones in tow and you can just plonk yourself on the sand close to the village, put down your towels and relax, there's even a bar close by!
Newquay is a few miles north of the caravan and also some boasts some of the UK's most famous beaches. The last few years have seen Newquay blossom as a destination for lovers of good food, with restaurants such as Rick Steins’ Fistral taking advantage of the beachside views and fresh-caught fish to serve a classic seaside meal whilst watching the surf.
But it’s not all fish, there’s any number of eateries located all over the town, serving everything from Cornish pasties to fish and chips, international cuisine and much, much more. If you find yourself wishing you could surf, but have never got round to it, then there’s no better time to learn than when in Newquay. There are multiple surf schools all across the town, taking on skill levels from learner to expert.
If surfing’s not quite your cup of tea, there’s plenty of other watersports to learn, including kite surfing, Stand up paddle boarding, windsurfing and wave skiing.
Newquay's already lively atmosphere is given a huge boost by its annual festivals and events, the biggest probably being the Boardmasters Festival, a combination of surfing and music that attracts not only some of the world’s best surfers, but also top bands and singers from across the globe. Away from that, there are fish festivals, beer festivals, open air theatre and a host of other events packed into the year.
