Coverack on the Lizard peninsula is an ideal base for an active family holiday, last minute break or short break to explore Cornwall.

Coastal and countryside holiday accommodation in Coverack offers dog friendly holiday cottages and large holiday cottages for bigger family groups. You will find our hosts charming and helpful. Holiday cottages near Coverack will give you the best of all worlds – good value family holiday accommodation, weekend holiday cottages, luxury holiday cottages and luxury weekend cottages. 

Choose a self catering cottage, farmhouse bed and breakfast near Coverack on the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall, through Cartwheel Holidays.  

Once a notorious smuggling fishing village, Coverack, meaning ‘hidden place’ is a beautiful Cornish village situated on the east coast of the Lizard, with its tiny harbour wall made from local serpentine and hornblende mineral rocks, dating back to 1724.

Coverack is a quaint, picturesque village with some specialist shops selling local crafts and jewellery. Amenities include a few hotels and inns. Worth a visit is the Old Lifeboat House with panoramic sea views over the harbour –it was converted into a restaurant 18 years ago and has a team of excellent chefs serving locally caught fish and other dishes.

The area is perfect for walking and the Cornish coastal footpath has spectacular views and runs right through Coverack. Both the pretty coastal villages of Porthoustock and Porthallow are worth exploring and can be reached via footpaths from St. Keverne.

For those interested in swimming and windsurfing Coverack has a large, crescent-shaped beach which is in a sheltered part of the bay. The windsurfing centre is RYA affiliated and runs several courses as well as scuba diving trips to several wrecks on the famous Manacle Reef.

Coverack has a long history dating back to the Mesolithic times right through to the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Age eras. There is evidence of these periods in the form of burial mounds, hut circles, pottery and flint tools.

Coverack has a long smuggling past, and many ships have been wrecked on this unforgiving part of the coast. The Manacle Rocks which stretch out nearly one and a half miles into the sea, mostly submerged, have claimed many lives of sailors and lifeboat men. In the Paris hotel, photos can be seen of the devastating storms which hit this part of the coast.