Ravenswood Hotel
✓ Centrally located 300 metres from Torquay Harbour and town centre
🏖️ 0.39 miles from Beacon Cove (Excellent water quality)
Torquay
Tusker Lodge
Torquay
📍 533 Babbacombe Road, Torquay, TQ1 1HQ
🚆 Nearest station: · 1.1 mi
🔌 Nearest public charging: · 0.7 mi (Open Charge Map)
🌊 Beacon Cove: Excellent bathing water 0.4 mi · Environment Agency
- Run by a professional chef offering expertly crafted breakfast
- Weekend Japanese takeaway dish is a signature treat
- Pet-friendly throughout, welcoming four-legged family members
- Public transport right across the road for easy exploring
- Rooms overlook picturesque Torwood Gardens
Tusker Lodge is a pet-friendly guest house in Torquay Harbour, in the heart of the English Riviera, just 10 minutes from the harbour itself. Run by Sandy, a professional chef, and his wife, it offers nine comfortable singles, doubles and triples, with a south-facing terrace and garden views over Torwood Gardens. Sandy's breakfast and his weekend Japanese takeaway are a particular highlight, and public transport sits right across the road for easy exploring. You're close to Beacon Cove beach, rated Excellent for water quality, plus Torquay Museum and Dinosaur World on the doorstep, with Splashdown Quaywest water park a short drive away, making this a handy, homely base for discovering Torquay and Devon's coast.
How far to…
- Torquay harbour
- 10 minutes
- Station
- 1.1 miles away
- Beach
- 0.4 miles away
- Torquay Museum
- 0 miles away
- Dinosaur World
- 0.2 miles away
- Splashdown Quaywest
- 3.2 miles away
Practical details
- Pets
- Pet-friendly accommodation welcomed
Accommodation on site
- Rooms
Details taken from the operator's own website on 2 Oct 2026 — check current terms when you book.
Facilities
- ✓ Takeaway Food
- ✓ Pet Friendly
- ✓ WiFi
- 🚌 Near a Bus Stop
- 🔌 EV Charging Nearby
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