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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