Tara
🏖️ 0.74 miles from Hope Cove (Good water quality)
Hope Cove and Thurlestone, South West England
£1,716 per break
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Some holidays run on cream teas. These Devon stays have an independent café or tea room within about a mile — morning coffee and afternoon scones without moving the car.
🏖️ 0.74 miles from Hope Cove (Good water quality)
Hope Cove and Thurlestone, South West England
£1,716 per break
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🏖️ a few minutes' walk from Teignmouth Town (Good water quality)
Teignmouth, South West England
£493 per break
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🏖️ 0.39 miles from Warfleet Creek, Dart Estuary (Excellent water quality)
Kingswear, South West England
£1,196 per break
Check availability✓ Hilltop location with uninterrupted Jurassic Coast views
🏖️ 0.3 miles from Ness Cove (Excellent water quality)
Dawlish
🏖️ 0.65 miles from Goodrington (Good water quality)
Paignton, South West England
£513 per break
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🏖️ 1.81 miles from Steamer Quay, Dart Estuary (Poor water quality)
Totnes, South West England
£1,249 per break
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✓ Off-grid farm camping near the South Devon coast
🏖️ 0.42 miles from Thurlestone South (Excellent water quality)
Salcombe
🏖️ 0.78 miles from Broadsands (Excellent water quality)
Paignton, South West England
£245 per break
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🏖️ a few minutes' walk from Warfleet Creek, Dart Estuary (Excellent water quality)
Dartmouth, South West England
£777 per break
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🏖️ 0.34 miles from Teignmouth Town (Good water quality)
Teignmouth, South West England
£752 per break
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🏖️ 0.96 miles from Hollicombe (Excellent water quality)
Paignton, South West England
£631 per break
Check availability✓ Clifftop hotel above Hope Cove with sea views from most rooms
🏖️ a few minutes' walk from Hope Cove (Good water quality)
Salcombe
🏖️ 0.36 miles from Teignmouth Town (Good water quality)
Teignmouth, South West England
£1,110 per break
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🏖️ 1.99 miles from Steamer Quay, Dart Estuary (Poor water quality)
South Brent, South West England
£451 per break
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🏖️ 0.46 miles from Hope Cove (Good water quality)
Salcombe, South West England
£403 per break
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🏖️ a few minutes' walk from Teignmouth Town (Good water quality)
Teignmouth, South West England
£627 per break
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🏖️ 0.74 miles from Paignton Paignton Sands (Good water quality)
Paignton, South West England
£463 per break
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🏖️ a few minutes' walk from Teignmouth Town (Good water quality)
Teignmouth, South West England
£881 per break
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If your ideal day in Devon includes a slow breakfast, a mid-morning coffee and a pot of tea in the afternoon, where you stay shapes how easy that is. BritStays lists 410 places to stay across Devon. This page doesn't list individual cafés or tea rooms, so treat the stays below as bases and check what's within walking distance when you look at each listing. What the data does show is where the stays cluster and how you'll get around, and that matters most if you'd rather wander out for a cuppa than drive.
Paignton has by far the most, appearing in our listings both as Paignton, South West England (51) and simply Paignton (42). After that come Salcombe, South West England (48), Torquay (39), Ilfracombe, South West England (34), Dartmouth, South West England (25), Sidmouth (19) and Exmouth (16). A busy town base means more choice of places to eat and drink nearby. If you want quieter countryside, Dartmoor National Park is the obvious draw, although the stays listed here are mostly town-based.
Cottages make up most of the set (241), followed by hotels (133), caravanning (19), camping (14) and holiday parks (3). In practice:
The most common facilities are about getting around: 233 stays have EV charging nearby, 227 are near a train station and 163 are near a bus stop. That suits a café-hopping holiday, because you can leave the car and still reach another town for lunch. All the Paignton cottages above list a bus stop, a train station and EV charging nearby. Paignton hotels such as the Russell Hotel, Sealawn Hotel and The Berry Hotel are also listed as near a train station.
Some facilities are much rarer. Only 30 stays list parking, 30 a bar and 27 a restaurant, while 46 list WiFi and 34 list disabled access. If you want to eat in, Torbay Court Hotel in Paignton lists a bar, restaurant and WiFi. If any of these rarer facilities is essential to you, filter for it first, because the choice narrows quickly.
Plenty of days out pair well with a café break afterwards. Paignton Zoo is an easy choice if you're based in Paignton, and the Site of Old Torbay Aircraft Museum is listed there too. Sidmouth has the Coldharbour Woolen Museum. For gardens and historic houses, look at the National Trust's Coleton Fishacre, Overbeck's Museum and Gardens and Bradley Manor, or Escot House. Castle fans have Dartmouth Castle, Tiverton Castle and Hemyock Castle to choose from. If you want open country and long walks, Dartmoor is the place to head.
We can't give you prices or seasonal availability here, but the numbers do point to a few practical steps:
Paignton. It appears in our listings as Paignton, South West England (51 stays) and as Paignton (42 stays), ahead of Salcombe, South West England (48) and Torquay (39).
Many stays are set up for it. 227 are near a train station and 163 are near a bus stop. Paignton cottages such as Turtle Beach and Crabby Cove list both.
Yes. In Sidmouth, the Victoria Hotel has a swimming pool, hot tub and gym, and the Royal Glen Hotel and Sidmouth Harbour Hotel both have a pool, bar and restaurant.
It's one of the rarer facilities. Only 30 of the 410 stays list parking, so filter for it and book early if you're driving.
Couples could look at Seahorse Shore, which sleeps 2. Families of five could try Shells Shore or Seagulls Rest, which each sleep 5.
Our facility data doesn't record whether pets are allowed, so check each listing directly before booking.
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