Travelling to Cornwall dilemma

[marinablue]

Ok so I'm planning a holiday to Cornwall with the LO's but I'm trying (and failing!!) to figure out the best way there. I live in Cheshire. I do drive but I am a complete nervous wreck when it comes to motorways. Sounds crazy but I went on google maps and found out it will take 7 and a half hours to drive to Newquay on A roads. Is that right?!

Thought about flying to Newquay from Manchester airport but the cost will probably be about £300 and then there's the problem of not being able to explore around where I'm staying if I have no car.

I have ruled out trains completely for various reasons. Any help/advice/personal experience is appreciated. Thanks

[Cindy34]

Bodmin was the bottleneck on Friday. They have road widening works going on till Spring 2017. Seemed to add about an hour on to what Google thought it would take.

Lovely down here though.

[BackforGood]

The traffic / travel is the reason I won't book a holiday in Cornwall until the year I'm able to stay outside of school holidays and a mid week to midweek booking. I also live closer tha you and am perfectly happy driving on motorways - but just don't want to spend that long driving.

From Cheshire, id be heading for Wales. So many beautiful beaches

[Bin85]

I used not to like motorways either but have made myself get used to it when kids were at university there's not much alternative!
Getting on is the worst bit and you'll improve with practice , you can trundle along in slow lane whilst you get your confidence up.
I find a Sat Nav very reassuring and helpful especially on my own and also take an atlas and write out the route in thick felt pen too !!

[UnikittyInHerBusinessSuit]

North Wales or Pembrokeshire are very nice. Even North Devon would save you a good hour on the road.

[LunaLoveg00d]

Just drive on the motorway. We drove from Scotland to Cornwall and back and it took just over 8 hours each way. Cheshire is at least 3 hours further south than we are. Traffic is not always awful in Cornwall, it can get busy around the Bristol area but you just avoid peak times.

Route would be M6, M5. Simple. My advice would be to book a couple of motorway lessons with an instruction, I can't believe anyone who is too scared to be on motorways would be safe on a dual carriageway at speed either.