Spending money for a week in Cornwall?

[fairynick]

Two adults, no children.
Campsite is already booked and paid for.
We want to do beaches, at least one meal out per day, potentially Eden project and not really sure what else - haven’t planned it out yet. Will also have a few drinks of the evening.
Staying around 15 mins from Newquay, but also might do a day trip or two out to somewhere else.
I know it’s a “how long is a piece of string” question, but roughly how much spending money would you take if you were us? X

Depends whether you will be having a restaurant meal or a burger. Personally we'd budget £150-200 a day, but we like eating and drinking 😀 Everything goes on the credit card then paid off at the end of the month.

I’d usually budget £150-200 per day for two of us but we don’t drink and I’ve actually got no idea how much alcohol in bars / restaurants costs nowadays .

Just to manage your expectations, a work colleague has just come back from Cornwall, and getting in anywhere to eat was a nightmare with long queues everywhere.

What ever amount you think add on £300-£500 more.

Oh god it’s going to be ridiculously dear and ridiculously busy isn’t it 😅

Are you physically taking spending money in cash? Surely you set a budget of what you can afford and work to that, paying by card as you go?
The price of attractions should be on their websites. Eating and drinking out should be similar to what you'd pay at home, maybe a bit more expensive.
If you're trying to reduce spending then use the big supermarkets as much as possible, have one drink with your meal out then buy beer/wine for the shops to take back to the campsite. Carry a water bottle / flask with you to avoid spending a small fortune on takeaway drinks, ditto snacks from a supermarket and packed lunches.

We were there for 9 days a few weeks ago and budgeted £1000, but we actually only ended up spending about half of that! We were staying in a caravan though so about half our meals were self-catered.

Same as pp, we’re currently doing a week in Pembrokeshire, no children, and are spending £150-£200 a day.

I would plan it out, some things may need pre-booking and all prices should be on website as activity prices can vary a lot from free to £100 each or so. Food also will vary depending on what type of restaurant you eat in - again if you look in one they should have prices. You may need to book for that. Last year in Devon we got mainly takeaways so food wasn't that high but in restaurants it can start to add up quickly.

Or do it the other way round set yourself a budget for each day and then work out what you can do with that. But I would research now - we are going to Devon later and some things are already fully booked.

I don’t take ‘spending money’ on a UK holiday-I’d just pay for stuff by card, do the things that you’ve said you want to do and it costs what it costs. I wouldn’t plan to eat a meal out every day though-we tend to just eat out acouple of times, as there’s lots of us and that soon gets expensive.

If I was having to change money into euros etc, I would think about it a bit harder!

Book any restaurants you want to visit soon, I live near there and getting a table in lots of places is impossible last minute. Also book any attractions if you can as some are also limited numbers

I live where you are coming. Book tables at places now. Everywhere is rammed and booked up. Misses your point

Assume @fairynick is trying to budget as opposed to thinking how much cash to lift .

Dinner and drinks for DH and I can easily be £100 plus car parking/taxi/fule, other meals, ice cream, coffee, entry to attractions… £150-200 is about average.

My boyfriend and I went for a week at the beginning of July. Cottage etc was already paid for but we spent about £900 on top in total (we ate out for dinner 5 times at nice places and like cafes for lunch). This included water activities, parking at beaches, etc etc.

Make sure you book to eat out. I booked our restaurants back in February as I wanted the good places but people were struggling to get reservations anywhere.

We’re going next week and I booked restaurants a few weeks ago and it was slim pickings for availability. 2 adults and 2 young dc and we’re looking at around £1500 spending money. We don’t drink but life good food.

Rick Steins seafood restaurant would set out family back almost £200, it’s insane.

We are two adults, no DC, and we don't spend anything like £100 a day when we have a week in Cornwall. Probably about £400 for the whole week max.

Attractions are around £15-20 per adult.
but I think The Eden Project is £30.
I spoke to a lady who was staying in St Ives earlier in the week and she told me she was unable to eat out in the evening as everything had been booked up. I can't say what Newquay is like at the moment.

Yes everywhere is very very booked up and its extremely extremely busy so do manage your expectations & pre book all meals asap.

We were in Newquay earlier this month and recommend this restaurant:
www.theoldmillhouse.com/bistro.aspx
And this bakery/cafe
pavilionbakery.com/

We did cornwall camping last year and on top of the campsite we probably spent £150 for the week plus maybe another £50 on clothes I bought in the sale which happened to be on when we were there

Just back. We ate at nice cafes but not posh foodie restaurants (I'll do that in mainland Europe but simply can't afford to do that in the UK!) and were having lunch out every day but one, and cooking tea in the rental house. I think we were easily spending £55+ per day for 3 of us, including ice creams later on. And that was cafe food. Hardly did any paid activities or destinations but were spending at least £4-8 on parking per day too. £35 for a hire boat.

I spent some money on nice crafts etc.

A few pasty lunches will keep your spend manageable. Remember fish and chips once or twice is also a good one to help keep the budget in check.

Advice for next year would be book in May or June and then September. School holidays is madness in normal years let alone when people are avoiding overseas travel.

Crikey much less than that! Eden is probably the most expensive place and around 25 each for admission. Eat fish and chips.....pasties, a cream tea is only around £6! The restaurants will all be booked up so I'd make the most of eating outside when the weather is good. Get drinks and snacks from the local supermarket.

Your trip can be as dear or cheap as you want it to be. Set a figure in mind that you can afford, and divide it up by the days you will spend there, if you spend less roll it on to the next day. It will help you keep to the budget. Have a lovely holiday.