Cornwall!!

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why do people pay stupid amounts to holiday here?
I nearly spat my coffee out in work today. A co worker has paid £1600 for a week in st Ives, last week of June!

she showed me it! It’s a pretty basic, one bedroomed cottage. Wtf!!

i have booked flights and an Airbnb in greece for just over £1000. I’ll admit I never holiday in the uk, because it just doesn’t feel like a proper holiday to me, but if I do it’s always a deal/ bargain Airbnb type thing.

what’s the attraction of Cornwall?
By all accounts it’s overcrowded cost a fortune to park , and eat out, and a pretty mediocre experience all round!

Cornwall is a beautiful county. Sadly the locals are unfriendly and unwelcoming and for that reason alone I won't go.

They wanted us to 'Fuck off' not so long ago, so I'll be supporting the tourist industry elsewhere. Vile attitude.

I presume OP you are someone who prefers a £200 quid all inclusive type holiday in Benidorm

Such a classless comment 🙄

Cornwall is wonderful, we spent a long weekend near St Agnes recently. We had such a lovely time. Can’t wait to return

Greece is wonderful too. I lived there for a few years. The Greek people exude warmth, the weather is incredible. Can’t wait to go back

Although the 8 journey could be part if the holiday, or indeed a night train, is it really that much quicker to get to Greece door to door?

Dolphin, yes they are not known for their warmth and inclusivenes

I adore St Agnes. Also love Greece.

St Ives for £1600. Too expensive. St Ives that has a new public toilet policy that you can only use the public toilet if you're a local. Let's see how that works out in high tourist season.

I know lots of people who don't fly because they care about the environment.

Other people hate flying. Other people don't want to sit by a pool for a week.

I don't understand how people can go on holiday in Dubai, or Disneyland or other places. I'd pay not to go there.

So in conclusion, people have different likes and dislikes

Because flying is one the most carbon heavy forms of transport, made worse by the fact it’s emitted into the sky, and we are trying to cut down our carbon footprint so we can look DC in the eye (when the shit hits the fan - as it already is) and say ‘we did what we could’.

god knows how it will work at all , do you have to have a bill for your council tax with your address on it to show the toilet attendent i wonder 😂 and i get that the cornish people are totally fucked off with not being able to afford houses in their own county because the prices are through the roof and only affordable to wealthy people buying them as holiday homes , but even going back to when i was a kid before this was quite so prevelent ,my mum always has said when i was a kid and we used to holiday there they are not a particularly friendly lot .

they rely on tourists , but at the same time dont really want them there either , it is madness when its more expensive to holiday there than in greece

Whereabouts in Greece are you going? Don’t be too smug - depending on where you’re going prices may really shock you when you get there.

I voted YANBU because I’ve just come back from St Ives where we paid £1k to stay in an ant infested cottage with damp patches and peeling paint (sold as a ‘luxury’ cottage). Huge disappointment, the place clearly hasn’t been painted in a decade, and despite being well appointed it was tired and dirty. Owners and agent both washing their hands of responsibility but I don’t consider grime and flaking paint to be luxurious. St Ives has lost its way and become some kind of theme park with inflated prices and greedy CFs raking in the money and pushing their luck.

Cornwall is, however, insanely beautiful. St Ives has the benefit of multiple beaches and good food on tap, there is a reason it’s a honeypot.

I would recommend staying elsewhere though - we have stayed more rurally in recent years and had a better holiday overall.

www.holidaycottages.co.uk/cottage/88008-chylowenna-barn?n=7&sd=15072022

£977 for a week in July, odd your friend spent so much.

i have booked flights and an Airbnb in greece for just over £1000.

Where are you flying from ? How long are you going for ? how many people are travelling ? When ?

We usually pay about £1200 for a cottage for four people, in Cornwall in the Summer holidays for a week. I don't think that's too expensive during the height of the high season, not sure how much similar sized accomodation would cost abroad ?

If you don’t want to go to Cornwall, don’t. Why start a thread moaning about it?

I adore Cornwall. We used to on holiday as kids and now I take my kids. We go out of season (Easter this year, Oct half term 2020) and have the most amazing time. We dont need it to be hot or wall to wall sunshine to have fun and there is so much to do. Every time I go I daydream about my retirement to a little fishing village or clifftop cottage.

I love Cornwall, and have been many times.

But I wouldn't pay that much to stay in a tourist trap.

I love Cornwall and have been going for years but last year was so busy, took us 9 hours to drive there, weather was v hit and miss and the beaches were insane whenever weather was nice, also apartment we stayed in was extortionate.

I am really looking forward to going abroad this year but we’ll definitely be going back to Cornwall but not in the holidays and not in the summer. It’s so beautiful.

Cornwall is the most stunningly beautiful place! Love the Lizard Peninsula. I’ve often chosen a holiday there over an overseas one. I’m not a town or city person so it suits me perfectly. Beautiful craggy cliff walks, crystal clear turquoise sea, sub-tropical climate, clean golden sandy beaches. You could easily mistake it for the Mediterranean!! I’ve never experienced any unfriendliness there in the 40 odd years I’ve been visiting. I’m from the Lake District and although it is beautiful, I find it far more unwelcoming here than I do in Cornwall.

The UK is a ridiculously expensive country. The weather is unreliable

That's why people go abroad

you could ask why do people start threads moaning about anything though couldnt you ? its meant to be a discussion , op obviously wants to know who people feel about going there which is why shes posted

Only locals can use the public loos? Oh loaded tourists, make sure you take those buckets and spades with you, I feel you may be needing them. They really haven't thought hard about this one. Enjoy the lovely beaches everyone and watch your step.

I’ve been pricing up Greece for a week and got VED and breakfast with pool, on an island for £650 for the week. so why spend over £1000? It’s each to their own and you don’t have to spend hundreds

At Ives 3 bed £417 last week in june

We went to Cornwall (Bude) for the first time last year, in early June. Paid £500 for 4 nights in a beautiful cottage.
I usually fly long haul and Greece has only ever been on my 'only if I'm desperate for a holiday' list, but I'd rather go there than Cornwall.

It was nice, took 6hrs to get there and our toddler was so good on the journey. Coming back - over 12 fucking hours of my toddler screaming and puking. Our neighbours came back 2 days later and it only took them 5hrs with a caravan. I was pissed off to say the least.

We couldn't find anywhere to eat most nights and the pans in the cottage were buggered so we couldn't eat much in the house either. Cost us a fortune in overpriced takeaways as there was sod all in the local supermarket. It wasn't too crowded though and parking wasn't expensive. As someone who doesn't usually holiday in the UK, I'm not a convert - I'd rather go abroad and have a 'proper' holiday.

We now have a newborn so there's no way we're driving that far for a few years yet and I can't see us wanting to go back to Cornwall for a long time. We're not going away this summer at all and next year will holiday in the UK again as I don't fancy trying to wrangle a 1yr old and a 3yr old through an airport. I did look up the cost of 4 of us to our last destination abroad (Costa Rica) and it was ridiculously expensive so not a cat in hell's chance we'll be doing that.

Looks like paragraphs are another thing this new update can't handle. Grrr.

To be fair a week at Easter in North Yorkshire set us back £1400 for a four bedroomed property. However a property of the same quality and size in the South of France would be £6,000 to £10,000 depending on location; somewhere in Greece such as St Stephano in Corfu I imagine would be £5,000 to £6,000.