Is there any ethical way to go on holiday to Cornwall WRT the housing crisis?

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Husband wants to go to Cornwall this summer and stay in a holiday let. I'm aware there are huge problems for local people with all the houses there being bought up for holiday homes and a shortage of affordable housing. Is there any 'ethical' way to go and stay in Cornwall without being part of this problem?

Many locals are second home owners, the airbnb's we've rented have all had local owners, either next door or down the road or the next town or so. We go on holiday several times a year so these arent rare occurances

John Fowler have a lot of holiday parks in Cornwall.

www.johnfowlerholidays.com/cornwall-holiday-parks

I'm sure they'll be happy to have you spend money there wherever you stay! Cornwall relies heavily on tourism.

We stay at Hengar Manor every year (near Bodmin) - we hire through Airbnb but it is a holiday park.

I dont understand why some people think a Band B is more ethical than a short stay let? Arent they also businesses in houses?I know the owners usually live on site, but it could be argued they should downsize and free up the property rather than make money from it ( thats not my view by the way !)

In the summer quite a lot of the let’s are homes for local people who pack up and tour Europe in a van (or similar). Renting their home out for a summer season apparently pays their mortgage for the year.

I don’t know how you can find out which ones are locals homes and which are contributing to the problem, though.

Was going to say the same. We rent holiday homes regularly and the owners have always been past or present locals!

Buy a little touring caravan, it’s great for kids as if you have a child friendly site you let them be feral on the caravan site with other kids.

They’re still pricing other locals out of the housing market.

There’s a hotel called sea space just outside Newquay which has apartment style rooms. I stayed there years ago when it was called something else and was more like a normal hotel with excellent children’s facilities and it was amazing. Since then they’ve changed quite significantly but it is a hotel with lots of the conveniences of self catering/cottages. Might be worth a look. It’s not cheap though!

Well yes, but for a lot of people camping is a bit shit and not much of a holiday (I have tried it and found it miserable)

@ouch321
I rent the same flat on Isle of Wight every year, originally through airbnb, now directly with the owner. It's a holiday flat, not a residence.
For anything over a 2 nights I want the extra space, somewhere to sit at night that's not the bedroom, I don't want to have to fit in with hotel breakfast times. I want to be able to do a packed lunch.
I do minimal 'cooking', but eat the main meal out every day.

If it's just me and my son we are ok to share a hotel room, but I'm also a foster carer and there are restrictions which make staying in hotels near impossible.
People and families are different and need/want different things, not that hard to understand.

We tried it for a few years, had all the luxury stuff, proper beds, woodburner, nice toilet, was warm and toasty but fucking hell the mud and wet and wind, drying the bloody stuff off at home (no garage), the sheer effort involved. No where to leave the bikes so couldnt take them, OH constantly worried about theft, nearly always in the middle of bloody nowhere, no ability to walk down pavements to get a local shop or pub.

Never ever ever ever ever again. Ever.

Looks lovely but a studio for a week in Sept is £1200! Not cheap for sure. For a family of 4 in the summer I bet it’s even more eye watering.

How about youth hostels? They often have family rooms.

I regularly use 2 different holiday lets in Cornwall. Both are owned by locals. One is the top floor of a family home with aunt living in the 2 floors below. Her nephew lets it out only on weeks when other family aren't staying there. The other one used to be a gallery and the owner retired and converted the shop and their studio into 2 flats. She still paints, but at home. I don't feel ethically conflicted and have got to know the owners well.

Incidentally, the former is in a town famed for being alleged to have few locals in the historic part of the town and yet we are 5 mins walk to the harbour in a street with locals living in surrounding property. Additionally, last time we visited the whole town was full of locals singing sea shanties a week before school hols. So I do think things are often more nuanced than what one reads in the press.

Stay in an hotel.

Just like the people in London then

I'd recomend the valley. Its a set of holiday homes in a gated complex. Has a pool, resturant, playground. Nice set up. Location is good near truro and fairly easy to get to the sights.

This looks fab. Farmers often convert or build on their land and these properties don’t reduce housing stock/price out locals www.sawdays.co.uk/britain/england/cornwall/merlin-farm/

Loved that programme it was brilliant wasnt it? Made me want to not add to the housing problem as a holidaymaker.

Would love to know what town this is - my kids are really into sea shanties 😂

Do you have kids? Staying in a hotel with young kids is not easy, especially trying to get the younger one to sleep when everyone else is awake. Eating out with young kids is really stressful. Particularly waiting ages for a meal. It's nice once, but night after night.

In a holiday let, we have access to a washing machine, which is really useful as we can pack fewer clothes. We can cook meals that we know the kids will eat. These make it preferable to a hotel to me. We did a holiday recently when we started in a hotel and then a holiday let. The holiday let was so much better for us.

We liked Trelawne Manor (static caravans) We stayed there a few times although not been for 7 years as now going to Somerset or Dorset instead

It would be local people employed there but I didn't ask what they did with their profits