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Check out the hotel’s Taste of the Bay package where guests can stay for three nights with breakfast and eat in three of its restaurants. From January 6 – February 15, prices start from £327pp (or £109pp per night). Visit watergatebay.co.uk

If Cornwall really is too far, you might want to consider Another Place , Watergate Bay’s rugged Lake District cousin. Formerly the Rampsbeck Hotel on the west coast of Ullswater, it aims to channel the same relaxed, outdoors-life vibe. Surfing is off the menu here, so there’s lake swimming, sailing and fishing and much else to try, including stargazing for the less athletic.

A sympathetic extension to the original hotel is home to family apartments as well as a lovely spa complex and the Independent Hotel Show Awards recently crowned it Outstanding New Hotel. Check out its Escape to the Lake package which offers two nights with breakfast and a chance to eat in both of the hotel restaurants. From January 6 – February 12 prices start from £200pp. anotherplace.co.uk