Name: The Golden Hind
Address: 10 The Terrace, St Ives, St Ives, St Ives, TR26 2BL, United Kingdom
Rating: 9

Smoke-free property

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Diet menu (on request)

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Next to the beach

Pool and beach

Pets Not Allowed

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Harbour Sand

New Millennium Gallery

Porthminster Beach

St Ives Harbour

St. Ives Theatre

Barbara Hepworth Museum

Barnoon Cemetery

BoatHouse Theatre

Bamaluz Beach

The Penwith Gallery

Penzance

Newquay Cornwall Airport

The Golden Hind

St Ives

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Just got home from a 5 night stay at The Golden Hind. I was a solo traveler and stayed in the ground floor room. I can’t comment on the food because my stay was room only but the hosts were very kind and rooms were lovely. The view of St Ives harbour was absolutely spectacular! Thank you for an enjoyable break

Solo traveler had enjoyable time

On our first morning, there was a knock at the door at 8:30 which turned out to be a breakfast trolley laden with a full English. We wheeled it across to a table set up by the window and ate looking out at a gorgeous view of St Ives harbour on a lovely sunny day - what a start to a holiday! The food was delicious (really tasty bacon) and varied and Alex was quite happy to adapt daily per requests, e.g. maybe just croissants one day or scrambled eggs and tomatoes for a lighter cooked breakfast. Another nice touch was a bottle of real milk in the fridge along with orange juice and jams.

Dragging myself away from breakfast, we were in the top floor room which was very comfortable with the great view. All the usual appliances are provided - tea making, hair dryer etc and there are plenty of sockets. Bathrobes are provided and beach towels as well. There is a good sized shower but no bath in this room.

We came by train and had a very short walk from the station.  The bus station is also just across the road and we caught an open topped bus there which went all the way to Lands End.  A twenty minute stroll will get you to most of the St Ives attractions so an ideal location and a very enjoyable stay.

Breakfast delivered to your door makes for a unique B&B experience

This is a terraced house, right opposite the railway station and convenient for everything St Ives has to offer.
We were allocated the top floor room (no lift) which was large, clean , had a comfortable bed and a fridge and had a modern touch. There were 2 big windows giving excellent viewsover the harbour and out to sea. A table and chairs were placed infornt of each window- one a relaxing table and the other the breakfast table. There was a bathroom with a powerful and spacious shower (no bath) and toileteries.  There were plenty of plug sockets -they werent always exactly where you would want them but we always take an extension lead so no problem.  The room was quiet from a traffic perspective but the seagulls enjoyed walking on the roof and giving us an alarm call- what can you do as we were by the sea?
The breakfasts were an experience beyond belief. Every morning at 08.30 a breakfast tray was placed on a table outside our door and there was a kknock to let us know. The trays were amazing. I was a little put off by the phrase "continental breakfast" but thought we could always top up in the town. No need whatsoever. Each day we got different- scrambled eggs on toast, smoked salmon bagel, chesse and ham toastie, filled crusty bread. They were the main dish but the tray also had variations of fruit- all beutifully presented, cereal bars or something similar, toast, croissant, toasted teacakes. There was orange juice in the fridge along with fresh milk- none of those little cartons., butter, jam, marmalade, bottles for tap water. It was lovely to sit in front of the view eating our breakfast wearing the provided dressing gowns. You then placed your used tray outside (by 10.00!!!) .
One downside to here were that there is no parking. It is advertised as limited but really there is only space for a very small car. This is the same for many properties in the town and we found parking up by the leisure centre where we left our car for the entirety of our stay. It was £8.40 for 24hrs and a steep walk down to the guest house.
In view of covid there was no daily room serevice which was fine for us. We were told if we needed anything replacing to put the used items outside the room by 10.00hrs. The only thing we ran out of was teabags and we did not realise so managed to catch Alex , the host, when she came to collect our tray. We were sternly reminded that we should have highlighted our shortage to her earlier- made us feel like naughty school children.
I would say our hosts were efficient rather than friendly. We got chased for our ETA in the morning and on arrival were met at the door, told where our room was and that the door was open. We were instructed about breakfast but other than that there is no contact, unless you happen to bump in to them when they are cleaning one of the other rooms. On the one occasion e did come across them Alex mentioned a place to go and when she was trying to explain she said it was on the map in our room. I explained that I had not seen a map in our room and she abruptly that it was in the bedside drawer. We tend to not use drawers on holiday so hadn't even opened it. It may have been a good idea to leave any local information out on the second table so that it was obvious.
I believe there used to be breakfast room and it was removed due to covid. I fully understand that and breakfast in your room, when the room was as good as ours was and the breakfast being way beyond expectations for "continental breakfast" is a more than adequate switch. 
Although I missed positive interaction with our hosts it was a great place to stay and I doubt that breakfast could be beaten. I would stay again in a heartbeat

Ideal location and the most amazing breakfast ever.

Okay folks we have stayed here 2 years ago and because of covid things have changed. On arrival we were made quite welcome by Alex and Morris and were told about the breakfast arrangements saying that it is now a continental breakfast so expecting a pastry and cereal we were surprised every morning with Alex’s take on her version of a continental breakfast it was marvellous. Just like to give a big thank you to you both for making it a lovely holiday. Alan and Margaret

Our stay for our Golden Anniversary

Lovely, best continental breakfast I’ve had anywhere, top floor room has amazing views and the bed is fabulous. Very convenient location for town, train and buses. Alex was lovely too, very accommodating and helpful.

Recommended!

Great location, view and very comfortable

What can I say, this guest house was amazing ( the July heatwave helped) 
 Location was 5* glorious views over the St Ives harbour ( ask for room 2). Alex was really accomodating, the breakfasts delivered to your door was a daily surprise. They were great to set you up for a day of exploring. Bedroom was spotless and room set up worked well having a sitting area to enjoy people watching. Parking wasn't an issue either, small cars advised. 
Overall, was a brilliant stay and can't recommend highly enough. 

Cornwall break 

ideally located for the short walk to the quay, the guesthouse has limited parking for small cars, breakfast currently in the room due to the current situation but it was very good indeed - different each day.
Comfortable room with everything you'd expect to find.
definitely will stay again

great location, comfortable room, friendly welcoming hosts

We booked this B&B back in 2019 as we were due to go to a wedding in Cornwall and we were going to stay here after the wedding for five nights.  Covid came along and the wedding got cancelled so we asked if we could carry this booking over to this year which they kindly did.  However, 4 weeks before we are due to go, we got a phone call telling us that they had overbooked and they would have to cancel our holiday.  We cannot tell you how disappointed we were.  We now have a wedding to go to and nowhere to stay after.

Why they didn't cancel the people who booked after us, I really don't know, as we must have booked it before them.  Also I cannot understand how they could have double booked as I believe there are only about 4 rooms in total - different if there were a couple of hundred!

No, I think the reason for the cancellation is pure greed.  We were paying 2019 prices, and as we all know the prices have gone through the roof since the Covid pandemic.   I know they are trying to run a business, but whatever happened to good old British decency and morals!  Shame on you!  We now have nowhere to stay after the wedding.

Disgusted

We stayed here the first week you could travel post lockdown.  We had the top room which looks out over the harbour and sea.  Every detail is thought of, the tables in the windows to enjoy the view.  Breakfast, fresh and slightly different each morning.  I would absolutely book here again.  Alex and Moz could not have been better hosts, including helping park the car!!!

Beautiful

Spent a post lockdown long weekend here and had a lovely stay. Alex made great efforts with distancing especially with the fabulous breakfasts delivered to the room. The room itself was spotlessly clean and we would definitely recommend this guest house.

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