Caerhays is a spring garden and castle which is open to the public from February to June each year. The Estate has several holiday properties which are available all year with beach front, castle & woodland locations. It is licensed for wedding ceremonies and has several locations on the estate where you can hold your wedding or reception. Porthluney Beach is open all year round and sits on the South West Coast Path. The cafe at the beach can be found on facebook with details of opening times. Caerhays Castle and the Spring Gardens are now closed until 2023.
Just explored the grounds, not inside. It's lovely for a wander around but nothing super special - I think earlier in the spring though there are more beautiful flowers, we were right at the end of the season unfortunately. Staff seemed very friendly. Castle is beautiful, but tbh you get good views of it before reaching the ticket desk ;) Lovely little beach nearby too. But if I'm being totally honest, I'm not sure it's worth the ticket cost just to wander around the grounds, given that there are so many amazing walks and scenery nearby anyway...
The most incredible castle, grounds and collection of plants. Try a visit in May while the magnolias and cornish plants are in their finest bloom! Lovely baked items in the cafe! Stunning beach and a lovely beach cafe also.
Beautiful location, the grounds are well worth a walk around, not a place to take children though, they'd be bored within a couple of minutes. We did have a drink and a bite to eat, to be honest, the coffee was pretty bad, we asked for the tuna baked potato, from the look on her face you'd have thought she was ready for closing the cafe, it wasn't a face of enthusiasm. The meal was ok! probably the smallest baked potato we could have had.
Beautiful grounds, walking distance to a lovely beach with a cafe and toilets. We loved it.
We went to see the National Collection of Magnolias, and tbh we were slightly disappointed. The pathways aren't well kept and it was muddy. There aren't a lot of benches, which my elderly mum needs. And the Magnolias were well sign-posted, for example one small metal badge forty foot off a path. This was in stark contrast to Heligan who had excellent pathways, seating and signage for the special plants. Restaurant was very good though.
The grounds here are beautiful, they are only open to the public for part of the year and are well worth a visit! This is a hilly, wooded site with an extensive collection of magnolia, rhododendrons and azaleas. There are some "champion" magnolia to be found here and many of the trees and shrubs have name plates. There is also a nice tea room by the castle. I believe you can take a guided tour of the castle building although I have not done this as yet. There is parking available by the castle for blue badge holders although I think it would be very difficult to use a wheelchair on the woodland tracks. That being said there are some signs along the tracks advising certain sections are not sutable for wheelchairs so presumably some chair users do make it around the woodland. More able bodied visitors park in the beach carpark and walk up to the castle. For those who are less interested in the castle and grounds there is a large beach with lots of parking (there is a charge for parking) which also has a nice beachside cafe. A nice place to visit, we usually spend around 3 hours walking the grounds and in the tea rooms so think it's good value for money.
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Just explored the grounds, not inside. It's lovely for a wander around but nothing super special - I think earlier in the spring though there are more beautiful flowers, we were right at the end of the season unfortunately. Staff seemed very friendly. Castle is beautiful, but tbh you get good views of it before reaching the ticket desk ;) Lovely little beach nearby too. But if I'm being totally honest, I'm not sure it's worth the ticket cost just to wander around the grounds, given that there are so many amazing walks and scenery nearby anyway...
The most incredible castle, grounds and collection of plants. Try a visit in May while the magnolias and cornish plants are in their finest bloom! Lovely baked items in the cafe! Stunning beach and a lovely beach cafe also.
Beautiful location, the grounds are well worth a walk around, not a place to take children though, they'd be bored within a couple of minutes. We did have a drink and a bite to eat, to be honest, the coffee was pretty bad, we asked for the tuna baked potato, from the look on her face you'd have thought she was ready for closing the cafe, it wasn't a face of enthusiasm. The meal was ok! probably the smallest baked potato we could have had.
Beautiful grounds, walking distance to a lovely beach with a cafe and toilets. We loved it.
We went to see the National Collection of Magnolias, and tbh we were slightly disappointed. The pathways aren't well kept and it was muddy. There aren't a lot of benches, which my elderly mum needs. And the Magnolias were well sign-posted, for example one small metal badge forty foot off a path. This was in stark contrast to Heligan who had excellent pathways, seating and signage for the special plants. Restaurant was very good though.
The grounds here are beautiful, they are only open to the public for part of the year and are well worth a visit! This is a hilly, wooded site with an extensive collection of magnolia, rhododendrons and azaleas. There are some "champion" magnolia to be found here and many of the trees and shrubs have name plates. There is also a nice tea room by the castle. I believe you can take a guided tour of the castle building although I have not done this as yet. There is parking available by the castle for blue badge holders although I think it would be very difficult to use a wheelchair on the woodland tracks. That being said there are some signs along the tracks advising certain sections are not sutable for wheelchairs so presumably some chair users do make it around the woodland. More able bodied visitors park in the beach carpark and walk up to the castle. For those who are less interested in the castle and grounds there is a large beach with lots of parking (there is a charge for parking) which also has a nice beachside cafe. A nice place to visit, we usually spend around 3 hours walking the grounds and in the tea rooms so think it's good value for money.
