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The Pig at Harlyn Bay
Harlyn, Padstow PL28 8SQ, United Kingdom
Lowest upcoming
$218
3 Nov 2026
Highest upcoming
$615
29 Jun 2026
Median nightly
$312
across 365 upcoming days
Cheapest week
16 to 22 Dec
16% below annual median
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Cheapest week ahead: 16–22 Dec 2026
at $262/night
(16% below median)
Review
Condé Nast Hot List 2021 Readers' Choice 2023
Character and identity
The fifth in the Pig litter occupies a Grade II-listed mansion a meadow's walk from Harlyn Bay on Cornwall's north coast, with medieval archways, Jacobean plasterwork, a neo-Gothic staircase and a Georgian façade dressed in Judy Hutson's flea-market chic. There are 26 rooms across the main house, a slate outhouse and four garden wagons, plus a warren of sage-and-slate sitting rooms, oxblood leather, ancestral portraits and a deep-blue map room where the fire burns year-round. The culinary heart is the al fresco Lobster Shed and three interconnecting dinner rooms working a 25-mile menu. Service is young, surf-fluent and unfussy.
Who's it for
Best for:
Couples and design-literate weekenders who want shabby-chic Cornish countryside with serious cooking attached, walkers stepping off the South West Coast Path, and second-home owners treating it as a clubby local. Anyone who values garden-to-plate dining, a proper fireplace and a chatty, unstarched register will feel at home.
Should look elsewhere:
Dog owners (it isn't pet-friendly), families wanting a kids' club or beachfront, and anyone after polished country-house formality. The outhouse rooms have noticeably less character than the main building, and the dining rooms are deliberately loud and convivial rather than hushed.
Bottom line
The draw here is the Pig formula at full tilt: a characterful old house, hyper-local cooking and a register that lands somewhere between country pub and design hotel. Book a main-house room for original details (one has Venetian windows) or a garden wagon with outdoor shower for romance; aim for shoulder season to dodge Cornwall's August crush, and reserve The Smokery's single table well ahead.
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Harlyn, Padstow PL28 8SQ, United Kingdom
England, United Kingdom · 50.5370° N, 5.0043° W
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