Music Water Touring Park

Beach or theme park? Theme park or beach? Surfing or sailing or fishing or horse riding or golf – or coastal hikes and countryside bikes? If you want to stick close to base, all are available within ten miles at the most from Music Water Touring Park, with other attractions and towns like Portreath, St Ives and Tintagel also exceedingly reachable on the north coast.

Cornwall’s Crealy Great Adventure Park at Tredinnick just outside Wadebridge will probably be the first stop for those on holiday with small adventurers to soar on the rides and peer at the meerkats; book online before going to get up to 20% off.

Also at Wadebridge, the St Eval Kart Circuit is the biggest children’s circuit in the UK and is suitable for ages three to 16 (adults can roar along the track on their own circuit too).

Newquay Zoo and its Blue Reef Aquarium are other popular stops on the ‘kids in Cornwall’ trail, and just outside Newquay farm-mad offspring will milk the day for all it’s worth around the huge indoor play centre, adventure park, critters and maze of award-winning DairyLand Farm World.

But to the beaches. Pick a different one every day to sunbathe, stroll, surf, swim or sail at in between the clifftop strolls of the South West Coast Path around Padstow, to Harlyn Bay, Treyarnon Bay, Porthcowan and on to Mawgan Porth.

The long surfing beach at Watergate Bay is less than five miles from Music Water Touring Park and has regular beach events as well as a beach sports and watersports academy to show the less experienced the ropes.

Portreath beach, along the coast to the west, is another sublime surfing beach and has access to the South West Coast Path’s eight-mile walk to Godrevy from its edge.

We also recommend the sands at Padstow and the National Trust-managed Bedruthan Steps; Padstow’s National Lobster Hatchery also makes for a gripping afternoon out and is worth a look if only to hear the kids say ‘Ewww’.