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Helsbury Park is the UK's leading dog friendly, self catering holiday accommodation. We offer luxury, dog friendly holiday cottages with access to around 100 acres of unspoilt woodland and open pasture in the heart of north Cornwall. We have three 5 star totally dog friendly cottages and a stunning pool facility on site. Our secluded, 5 Star, self-catering, luxury farm holiday cottages are within easy travelling distance of all Cornwall's major attractions and many beautiful dog friendly beaches. Helsbury is an ideal base for your holidays from which to explore all that Cornwall has to offer from the drama of Bodmin Moor, the unique Camel Trail and the devastating beauty of the South West Coastal Path. You will not find higher quality, dog friendly holiday cottages anywhere in the UK.
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Stunning location! Marhayes was very clean - spotless in fact. The grounds were extremely very well kept and the pool and gym were awesome! The barn had its own rear dog run and kennel - great to give the dogs some space. However, Marhayes does not have it's own dog secure front garden (like Westhayes next door does). The addition of this one feature would bump Marhayes from a 4* to 5*. For those dog owners who are looking to book Marhayes - and don't quite have recall sussed...then watch out. While the majority of the fields are stock fenced - your pooch can run from the front door of Marhayes, whip around the front of the farmhouse and up the main driveway to the main road. There are two 5 bar gates on route - but they are always in the open position.
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Date of stay: August 2023
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Trip type: Travelled with family
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Booked both Marhayes and Westhayes for our family, including 2 children and 5 large dogs. Absolutely thrilled with the properties and surroundings. Great location, pool is a fantastic bonus. Can’t wait to come back next year.
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Date of stay: May 2023
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Our annual vacation with four close friends certainly didn't disappoint this year. Beautiful, spacious accommodation that's very dog friendly. Spectacular views and walks all around the farm. Then there's the hidden gem that is the pool area... Wow! A sauna, a gym, and a fantastic pool at the bottom of the garden. Our friend Lynn is going to have her work cut out to find something to top this for next year!
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Date of stay: February 2023Trip type: Travelled with friends
Room Tip:Plenty of parking. Stone floors with underfloor heating downstairs. You'll need pound coins for...
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What an absolutely fabulous place with breath-taking views of the Cornish countryside. Great rooms, impeccably clean ... and a pool, gym and sauna on top of it all. This is a brilliant place to stay. So near to Port Isaac, Tintagel and Boscastle. To say we had a ball is an understatement. Thank you Helsbury Park for an amazing time away together.
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Date of stay: November 2022Trip type: Travelled with friends
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This must be our 11th maybe 12th visit to Helsbury, we have always stayed in the farm house but this time stayed in Westheys, it’s a lovely property, spotlessly clean, well equipped with 3 good sized bedrooms all with en-suites. We have always brought our 2 Westies with us (now 13 & 15y old) and also two children (8 & 11) we have been lucky enough to visit Helsbury once sometimes twice a year and seen the 4 of them grow up. The facilities on site are fantastic, you can walk for miles and miles. Then spend the afternoon around the swimming pool. Helsbury is located well and there is some lovely beach’s within 10 miles, Trebarwith Stand is our favourite, along with Polzeath. Our only small gripe now is the farmhouse appears to have been rented out on a long term and is unavailable for holiday bookings, which is a shame as it’s such a signature property.…
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Date of stay: April 2022Trip type: Travelled with family
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My husband and I took our 4 dogs to Helsbury Park on holiday in November 2021. Because of the pandemic, it was our first holiday in almost two years and it did not disappoint! We stayed at Marhayes and absolutely loved every minute of our stay. Marhayes is a converted barn. It has underfloor heating, a wood-burning fire, open plan kitchen/dining/living area with floor to ceiling windows overlooking the wonderful views, all bedrooms have en-suite bathrooms and there is a downstairs bathroom near the entrance of the property with a bath - great for relaxing in with a glass of wine but also handy to shower down the dogs after a day at the beach before they go further into the house! Marhayes has everything we could need - smart tv with Netflix, all kitchen utensils for cooking etc, dog bowls, welly tray and utility room. The true selling point to this property though is the land that it sits on and the facilities. There is an indoor swimming pool with a sauna and gym. The pool is huge and has panoramic windows overlooking the 100 acres of land the property sits on. It is for the sole use of the guests staying at Helsbury Park, so when we used the pool we were the only ones there and had the whole thing to ourselves. The best part of Helsbury Park though is the 100 acres of private land it sits on. There are fields, pastures, hills, woodland, a stream and a small pond - all for guests’ exclusive use. Our dogs loved walks on the land and we even spent one whole day of our holiday just walking the land for three hours. Our dogs were exhausted afterwards and slept all night! Helsbury Park is a true gem for anyone wanting comfort and luxury but also wanting their dogs to have a great holiday too. It has everything you could want for a self catering holiday for yourself and your dogs. It also doesn’t have a limit on how many dogs you want to take - another rarity. As someone who has always had 3+ dogs, it can be harder to find properties willing to allow more than 2 or 3 dogs maximum to stay. It was a little more expensive than other properties, but absolutely worth every penny given how special it is. Other properties do not offer what it does and I firmly believe you get what you pay for. I will absolutely return to Helsbury Park again and I urge anyone who likes holidaying with their dogs to plan a trip there asap. You won’t regret it!…
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Date of stay: November 2021Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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As previous reviewers have said, this place redefines “dog friendly” and makes others seem just dog-tolerant. The accommodation is a high standard on in its own right, well furnished and decorated, even if you don’t have dogs. However the huge parkland is fantastic, particularly for large energetic dogs like ours. We’ll located for all of the areas worth visiting in Cornwall, it makes a great base, but it was sometimes hard to justify leaving to go out.
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Date of stay: October 2021Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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Our 3rd visit to Helsbury Park and a fantastic stay in The Farmhouse. We immediately relaxed in the beautiful surroundings and our children were in the pool within a couple of hours after arriving! The house was spotless and we had everything we needed in the property, the views from the house are breathtaking especially on a clear morning watching the sunrise. Our dogs enjoyed the walks every day from the house and the paddling in the river. Ideal location to explore North Cornwall, Crantock Beach still our favourite. We can’t wait for our next visit!!!
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Date of stay: August 2021Trip type: Travelled with family
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We had such a lovely stay at this very dog friendly property. There are 2 spacious cottages & a house available for weekly holiday rent (we stayed at Marhayes). They exclusively share the onsite indoor heated swimming pool, sauna and gym that is set sympathetically into the hillside overlooking the vast grounds which were formerly farmland, but have now been allowed to return back to nature. The property has its very own expansive river frontage, bluebell woodlands, marshland and fields to explore. Our four-legged friends loved it. The cottage was spacious, well heated, clean and comfortable with dog friendly flooring and easy to close stair gates to stop them venturing upstairs. The boiler room served well as a drying room for wet towels & boots (we had lots of rain) and there was a plentiful supply of wood for the homely log burner. Cleverly, the dining table is also a pool table. The grounds were beautifully maintained with mowed pathways to follow and well weeded flower beds and moss & fern laden living walls, so typical of this area. One day, I’d love to go back and stay a bit longer, it was definitely very me!…
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Date of stay: April 2021Trip type: Travelled with friends
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Our second visit to Helsbury Park and it was just as good as our first. A beautiful cottage with fantastic views. The pool was very popular with my children and we used it a lot as the weather was a bit hit and miss. The walks for the dogs straight from the cottage are great they have so much freedom. Our favourite beach was Crantock Beach which is about 40 mins from Helsbury Park. Looking forward to our next visit 🥰
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Date of stay: August 2020Trip type: Travelled with family
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