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There are hotels you visit, and there are hotels you fall into a rhythm with. Watergate Bay Hotel, perched on a cliff above one of north Cornwall's great surfing beaches, belongs firmly to the second camp. This is a place built around the elements: the tide schedules your day, the wind decides whether it's a surf morning or a sauna afternoon, and the sunsets do most of the heavy lifting when it comes to entertainment.
We've teamed up with the team at Watergate Bay to offer one lucky reader two nights' bed and breakfast for two, with the run of a hotel that has spent decades perfecting the art of the British seaside escape. Mornings might mean a dawn paddle followed by waffles; afternoons could be spent in Swim Club, the 25-metre indoor pool that gazes straight out to sea, or booking in for a treatment while someone else worries about lunch.
Adam Sargent
When hunger calls, there's Zacry's for seasonal Cornish cooking, The Beach Hut for something salt-blown and casual, and The Living Space for long, lazy lunches with a view.
It's the kind of place where grown-ups exhale on arrival and leave already plotting a return – generation after generation, year after year.
Your prize
Two nights' bed and breakfast for two at Watergate Bay Hotel, on the north Cornish coast.
To enter, head to escapismmagazine.com/competitions
The question is: How long is the indoor pool at Watergate Bay's Swim Club?
Competition closes: 12th June 2026
By entering the competition, it is deemed that the entrant accepts the terms and conditions stated below.
No purchase necessary.
Prize cannot be exchanged for cash equivalent.
Prize is not transferable.
One entry per person, no bulk or third-party entries, unless the rules of the competition state so.
No responsibility can be taken for any lost or delayed entries.
Winner must be 18 years old or over.
The winner will be chosen by random from all correct entries and will be notified by email.
Entry is open to residents of the UK except employees (and their families) of Threadneedle Media Limited, its printers and agents, the suppliers of the prizes and any other associated companies.
The winner will need to confirm acceptance within 7 days of being notified. If the winner does not confirm acceptance within this timeframe, the promoter has the right to pick another winner.
Prize is two nights' bed and breakfast for two at Watergate Bay Hotel. Excluding school holidays. Subject to availability. Non-transferable and non-exchangeable for cash.