Seaside holiday homes booking fast for summer

Helpful Holidays are advising families seeking a holiday home close to a sandy beach in the West Country, or with uninterrupted sea views, to book as soon as possible as the prime places are now being snapped up for the peak summer weeks.

Still available for August is an ancient cottage with thick walls and low doorways now smartly renovated and just 200yds from the sandy beach at Kingsand in South Cornwall; sleeping five its priced from £754per week in the peak summer season. And at Bigbury-on-Sea in Devon’s South Hams is a smart, sunny ground floor apartment for four with long sea views and its own private patio 350yds from the glorious sandy beach, priced from £847pw in August.

There’s also a selection of new pine Scandinavian-style lodges sleeping five and six with leisure facilities priced from £895 per week in the summer school holidays. Set in ten acres above the seaside village of Portreath, near Newquay, Cornwall, they have shared use of an indoor heated pool, steam room, sauna, Jacuzzi, an outdoor children’s play area, croquet lawn and a putting green.

There is also a bar and restaurant with pizza delivery to the lodges and a beauty suite offering pamper treatments and packages. Other facilities include an electric bus to take guests down the half-mile to the sandy beach and village, and back up.

For more details look and book online at Helpfulholidays.com.