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Beautifully Restored 2 Bedroom Property In The Heart Of Old St Ives

Apartment with kitchen, a short walk to St Ives Harbour

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Location

Excellent

2 bedrooms1 bathroomSleeps 4

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St Ives, ENG

Rooms & beds

2 bedrooms (sleeps 4)

1 bathroom

Bathroom 1

Bathtub or shower · Toilet · Shower only

Spaces

Kitchen

Dining area

About this property

Beautifully Restored 2 Bedroom Property In The Heart Of Old St Ives

Valentine Cottage is a luxurious apartment formed from two storeys of an old fisherman’s cottage in the old ‘down along’ part of St Ives, set among cobbled streets and moments from two fabulous beaches. Finished to a high standard, Valentine Cottage makes an ideal base for a ‘proper’ St Ives holiday in summer or winter (the wood burning stove will keep you very cosy!). With one double and one twin room it works equally well for a family or as a romantic getaway for a couple.

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Pet-friendly

House Rules

Check in after 4:00 PM

Check out before 11:00 AM

Children

Children allowed: ages 0–17

Events

No events allowed

Pets

No pets allowed

Smoking

Smoking is not permitted

Important information

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy

Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges

Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed

On-site parties or group events are strictly prohibited

Host has indicated that there is a carbon monoxide detector on the property

Host has indicated that there is a smoke detector on the property

Safety features at this property include a fire extinguisher

About the area

St Ives

Located in St Ives, this apartment is by the sea. While the natural beauty of Carbis Bay Beach and St. Michael's Mount can be enjoyed by anyone, those looking for an activity can explore St Ives Harbour. Ready for a night out? Consider Acorn Theatre and Gwennap Pit.

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St Ives, ENG

Getting around

St Ives Station - 12 min walk
Newquay (NQY-Newquay Cornwall) - 68 min drive

Restaurants

‪The Sloop Inn - ‬2 min walk
‪Porthmeor Beach Café Bar - ‬5 min walk
‪The Captain's Table - ‬2 min walk
‪The Rum & Crab Shack - ‬4 min walk
‪The Lifeboat Inn - ‬5 min walk

Frequently asked questions

Is Beautifully Restored 2 Bedroom Property In The Heart Of Old St Ives pet-friendly?

No, pets are not allowed at this property.

What time is check-in at Beautifully Restored 2 Bedroom Property In The Heart Of Old St Ives?

Check-in begins at 4:00 PM.

What time is check-out at Beautifully Restored 2 Bedroom Property In The Heart Of Old St Ives?

Checkout is at 11:00 AM.

Where is Beautifully Restored 2 Bedroom Property In The Heart Of Old St Ives located?

Situated by the sea, this apartment building is within a 10-minute walk of The Island - Pendinas and St Ives Harbour. Chapel of St Nicholas and BoatHouse Theatre are just steps away. St Ives Station is 12 minutes by foot.

8.8

Excellent

8.6/10

Cleanliness

9.4/10

Check-in

9.2/10

Communication

10/10

Location

9.2/10

Listing accuracy

10/10 Excellent

Laurence W.

7 Oct, 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Great location and quiet.

Stayed 4 nights in Sep 2025

10/10 Excellent

Sandra W.

15 Sept, 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Great location within St Ives, no more than 10 min walk to beaches, art galleries, restaurants, beaches.

Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2025

8/10 Good

Lucy M.

27 Aug, 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Great place to stay and in perfect distance from pretty much everything. The only problem with our whole stay was the parking (and lack of it), which was as bad as we expected fir a bank holiday weekend.

Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2025

10/10 Excellent

Katherine G.

1 Sept, 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Perfect little cottage, located between two wonderful beaches. Crisp white bedlinen and towels, comfortable beds and really well equipped kitchen.We can really recommend this place for authentic Cornish holiday! Thank you

Stayed 6 nights in Aug 2025

10/10 Excellent

Leigh B.

1 May, 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Perfect spot

Loved our stay in St Ives. Beautiful cottage, with all the personal touches. Loved the Scones and Cornish cream. We felt so welcome and really enjoyed our stay. Walked to all the st Ives beaches and so close to all the restaurants and shops

Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2025

8/10 Good

alex M.

7 Aug, 2025

Liked: Check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

All you need, comfortable and perfectly located for all things st Ives.A few gripes,the press down bath plug was faulty,a window catch in the back bedroom was broke.The upstairs TV has little or no reception and just doesn't work as it should. But I'm being a bit nit-picky,non of these things ruined our stay in any way. Plenty of towelling provided and the milk and kitchen welcome pack was a nice touch. We'd happily stay in Valentine cottage again.

Stayed 5 nights in Aug 2025

6/10 Okay

Sharon C.

25 May, 2025

Liked: Check-in, communication, location

Disliked: Cleanliness, listing accuracy

Great location

Great location! Close to beaches/sloop etc. Negatives - some mouse droppings on dining chair. Kettle plug a little dodgy. One of the chairs was really grubby, otherwise a nice and handy place to stay.

Stayed 2 nights in May 2025

10/10 Excellent

Kathryn T.

29 Oct, 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Lovely cottage, close to all the things you want in St Ives

Great location and cottage nicely styled. Just a few things missing from the inventory, but the owner replied promptly. I didn't effect our stay and we would definitely recommend and we will return 😊recommenadefinitelyrecommand

Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2024

10/10 Excellent

Jess M.

27 Jun, 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Perfect location

Couldn't ask for better communication with the host and a better location! We'll be back.

Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2024

10/10 Excellent

Georgina J.

11 Sept, 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Fantastic Location

Lovely quaint fisherman’s cottage literally 5 mins walk from a stunning beach!! Highly recommended for a relaxing break, will definitely be returning!

Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

Elisa W.

22 Jul, 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Lovely apartment!

The apartment is nice and clean and contains everything you need, e.g. dishwashing liquid, salt (in the kitchen) and even sand toys for the youngest (in the cupboard upstairs). Thanks for hosting us - gladly again!

Stayed 4 nights in Jul 2024

8/10 Good

Lucy w.

30 Jul, 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Lovely cottage - perfect location!

We had a lovely holiday here, the cottage is literally a stones throw from Porthgwidden and Porthmeor beach and so ideal for walking down in your swim stuff and surfing. Cottage is small but this is the nature of the fishermans cottages in St Ives and adds to the charm. The only constructive criticism I would give is that there were only 3 large plates and a couple of small ones so we couldn't all eat peoperly together, also a caffetiere would have been nice to have for coffee. :)

Stayed 7 nights in Jul 2024

6/10 Okay

Trevor R.

31 Aug, 2020

Liked: Check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Could do with a few more pots and pans

It was ok

Stayed 14 nights in Aug 2020

6/10 Okay

Lyn F.

7 Aug, 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, location, listing accuracy

Disliked: Communication

Stay in St Ives

The cottage is nice & well located-however when we arrived it appeared to have a large bluebottle infestation-we sprayed & sprayed fly spray but the place smelt of it -so we had the front door open constantly because of that &the flies which meant 2/3 males who were next door used to stand outside our door and smoke constantly & drop their cigarette ends outside the door-I cleaned up some but as none of us smoke it was unpleasant. Then the host emailed asking if we smoked in the property-& was quite rude about it. I was furious-no we didnt smoke in the property but rather than say something negative I didn’t reply-to which I had another abrupt email from him. Which again I ignored-I am writing this now as Vrbo have asked me too. The cottage itself was nice albeit very old but the host was unpleasant in his accusations. So for that reason I have marked it down I didn’t smoke in the f

Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2024

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

5 Oct, 2020

Liked: Location

Disliked: Check-in, communication, listing accuracy

Location great

It’s a bit of a nightmare to get to the property by car,due to the town beI got closed to cars etc till 4 then it’s mad. So you can’t really move your car once parked because you know you can’t drive back between 11-4. Getting to the property the instructions are out of date so we were looking for the hotel to turn right at, no hotel now by that name. When we did get to the cottage. Getting the key was easy however, opening the door was another thing it’s a round door handle and extremely hard to turn. It came to the point I called matt to say we couldn’t get in, but no answer and no reply back. We eventually got in. The cottage is in need of some tlc, the sofas are dirty and ripped. There no mention on listing that there’s an appt above the bedrooms with a balcony outside the double bedroom window so this was very noisy at times as was all the banging about from above. Don’t leave anything out and about in the kitchen as ants are everywhere even got into my freezer bag. I placed bread in the bread bin, went to use day after, covered in ants!!!! The location of the apartment for getting into st ives is brilliant. But in future I’d look for somewhere that had parking and nothing above the bedrooms and no ants

Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2020

10/10 Excellent

Christian S.

1 Oct, 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Stayed 5 nights in Sep 2025

8/10 Good

Tristan V.

20 Apr, 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2025

8/10 Good

George M.

2 Oct, 2022

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Well placed for the heart of St Ives. Not for everyone.

A small house, two levels of a three storey terrace at "the island" end of St Ives. Really close to the harbour front, the Hepworth gallery and the Tate. Beds upstairs. One double, and one two singles. Cramped, but workable. The staircase is not suitable for anyone with significant mobility issues. Good kitchen, small but workable living room. Furniture is run down and shabby but nothing you can't live with. Carparking closeby is packed, you need luck or 20minutes patience to wait for a spot but once found, the flat is three houses away. If you don't like run down Furniture, quirky rooms, low ceilings and character, this isn't for you. If you cannot negotiate a steep narrow staircase, this isn't for you. If you can handle this, its a really good house for St Ives Central.

Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2022

10/10 Excellent

Sonia B.

15 Aug, 2020

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Perfect break

Ideal location .typical fishing cottage Very comfort table , very short walk to the beach

Stayed 5 nights in Jul 2020

10/10 Excellent

James P.

9 Mar, 2020

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Valentine cottage

Great stay. A great weekend and accommodation superb. Shouldn’t be missed.

Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2020

10/10 Excellent

Adam Houghton H.

19 Nov, 2019

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Beautiful house in superb location

We had a weekend here at the start of November. This was our first time in St Ives. What a beautiful, Quirky little place. The house has everything you could possibly need for a break in St Ives. The beaches are a two minute walk away which is brilliant. We will definitely return when the weather is a bit warmer/settled.

Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2019

10/10 Excellent

Elaine O.

23 Oct, 2019

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Great location!

Really easy to find with directions given. No hassle check in and check out. Parking right next door (which gets full but we never had to wait more than a few minutes for a space to open up). We enjoyed St. Ives and our stay here.

Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2019

8/10 Good

TERRY C.

30 Jul, 2019

Liked: Communication, location

Disliked: Cleanliness

GREAT LOCATION FOR THE BEACHES SHOPS AND RESTAURANTS AND THE DREDED PARKING

cottage has retained its old look as a fishermans cottage front door handle very hard to operate when you have arthritis.

Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2019

8/10 Good

Debbie C.

8 Jul, 2019

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Fabulous location

The cottage is very close to several beaches and easy walking to beach front restaurants. Well equipped and everything we needed.

Stayed 4 nights in Jun 2019

10/10 Excellent

shan d.

23 Jun, 2019

Stunning property

Short weekend away. Absolutely stunning cottage in a fantastic location. Clean comfortable felt very at home. Will definitely be going back again.

Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2019

About the host

Hosted by Matt

Matt & Pippa Rees are the owners of Valentine Cottage. We've been coming to St Ives for years and in fact we got engaged on Porthmeor beach. So it's a special place for us and we love it! We have owned the property for around 5 years and visit as often as we can.
We hope you love both the property and St Ives as much as we do.

Why they chose this property

We wanted to be in the old part of St Ives which gives us great access to the beaches as well as the town.
You can make a cup of tea in the morning and walk around the corner and drink it while watching the waves - bliss!