Glorious beaches close to Daish’s hotels have topped the British charts to find the country’s best seaside destinations – with one even named among the finest in Europe.

St Ives, just 20 miles south of our Barrowfield hotel in Newquay, was voted the top UK beach resort according to contributors to the TripAdvisor website. The town’s sandy delights were also named sixth best in Europe, beating competition from the likes of Majorca, Sicily and Sardinia.

Close behind in second place was Newquay itself – Tolcarne beach is within close walking distance of the Barrowfield. Then came Bournemouth (third) and Weymouth (fourth), with Daish’s Bournemouth Sands hotel ideally placed to visit both of them.

TripAdvisor is the world’s largest travel site, and as well as accolades for St Ives, the company’s first-ever Travellers’ Choice Beach Awards provided good news for destinations close to Daish’s hotels . Woolacombe in North Devon came in at seventh, while Padstow, just north of Newquay, was voted eighth.