Port Isaac is a charming location for a last minute break or short break in Cornwall.

Port Isaac offers coastal cottages, dog friendly holiday cottages, large holiday cottages for bigger family groups. You will find our hosts charming and helpful. Holiday cottages in Port Isaac 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 or campsite near Port Isaac through Cartwheel Holidays.    

Port Isaac is well known for having featured in several TV programmes and films, including ‘Saving Grace’, ‘Doc Martin’ and ‘The Shell Seekers’. Celebrity spotting - From May to July this year, Port Isaac will once again be the focus for the next series of 'Doc Martin', as filming will be taking place throughout the spring and summer months before the crowds and school summer holidays make it impossible to find somewhere to stay.

Look out for the local celebrities – The Fisherman’s Friends – who perform sea shanties at The Platt on the harbour every Friday evening.

The narrow, winding streets are lined with white-washed cottages and traditional granite Cornish houses, many of which are listed as of architectural or historic importance. Up until the middle of the 19th century, Port Isaac was a busy port handling various imports and exports, including stone, coal, timber and pottery. Today Port Isaac is a lively fishing port and in the summer months you can take fishing trips from the harbour.

Both Port Isaac and nearby Port Gaverne are Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty – the perfect places to take a leisurely cliff top stroll and view the impressive surroundings. For a more energetic pastime, the Camel trail is nearby – grab your helmets and cycle through beautiful countryside between Bodmin and Padstow.

Port Isaac has several good restaurants and pubs serving delicious local food and interesting shops linked by tiny alleys – the smallest being ‘Squeezy- Belly Alley’.

With its maritime climate and year round welcoming atmosphere, one thing is for sure - this friendly little harbour town will not fail to impress you.