If you want to stay near the UK’s best beach – Rhossili on the Gower Peninsula – Sykes Cottages has more than a dozen properties to choose from. Rhossili was voted No1 best beach, came third in Europe and even got into the world’s Top 10 in Trip Advisor’s 2013 survey.
The beautiful bay stretches for three miles and is popular with dog walkers and surfers who make the most of the Atlantic rollers. Access is by a path from National Trust land at the top of the cliffs, though the climb back is steep! Just five miles along quiet lanes is white-washed Corner Cottage on the village green in the small community of Reynoldston. Sleeping up to six, three-night breaks start from £320 this spring, with a week in August costing up to £810.
A few minutes away, just outside the village of Penuel, are two barn conversions at Tircoch Holiday Cottages, The Dairy and The Stall. These four-star standard holiday cottages each sleep four and a three-night short break costs from £260, with a week in August from £669. Click here to book with www.SykesCottages.co.uk
In the survey, Woolacombe Beach in Devon was voted the UK’s second best beach and Cornwall’s Porthminster Beach came third.
UK WINNERS:
- Rhossili Bay, Rhossili – Swansea
- Woolacombe Beach, Woolacombe – Devon
- Porthminster Beach, St Ives – Cornwall
- Longsands Beach, North Tyneside – Tyne and Wear
- Hengistbury Head, Bournemouth – Dorset
- Fistral Beach, Newquay – Cornwall
- Weymouth Beach, Weymouth – Dorset
- Sandbanks, Poole – Dorset
- Filey Beach, Filey – Yorkshire
- St. Brelade’s Bay Beach – Jersey
EUROPE:
- Rabbit Beach, Sicily – Italy
- Playa de las Catedrales, Ribadeo – Spain
- Rhossili Bay, Rhossili, Swansea – Wales
- Playa de ses Illetes, Formentera – Spain
- Woolacombe Beach, Woolacombe, Devon – England
- Elafonissi Beach, Elafonissi, Crete – Greece
- Iztuzu Beach, Dalyan – Turkey
- La Pelosa Beach, Stintino, Sardinia – Italy
- Porthminster Beach, St Ives, Cornwall – England
- St Pauls Bay, Lindos, Rhodes – Greece
WORLD:
- Rabbit Beach, Sicily – Italy
- Grace Bay, Providenciales – Turks and Caicos
- Whitehaven Beach, Queensland – Australia
- Baia do Sancho, Fernando de Noronha – Brazil
- Flamenco Beach (Playa Flamenco), Culebra – Puerto Rico
- Playa de las Catedrales, Ribadeo – Spain
- Lopes Mendes Beach, Ilha Grande – Brazil
- Horseshoe Bay Beach, Southampton Parish – Bermuda
- Eagle Beach – Aruba
- Rhossili Bay, Rhossili, Swansea – Wales
