The Area

Don’t work too hard! Take some time to relax and enjoy Torquay.

TOWN CENTRE
Approx. 20 minute walk or 5 minute taxi/bus ride from the hotel will take you into Torquay’s town centre. Here you will find all the usual high-street stores and banks, as well as a selection of eclectic fashion shops.

Although the hotel offers a wide selection of cuisine and light meals you may decide to dine out. Choose from Mexican, Chinese, Indian, Italian, American or traditional English style restaurants. The seafood restaurants around the harbour are particularly good with local fish supplied fresh every day.

You may wish to take advantage of the beautiful local scenery....

BEACHES
Along the 22 miles of the English Riviera coastline, some of which abuts the grounds of The Palace, there are many beautiful beaches from wide sandy stretches to hidden rocky coves. So whether you’re after a place to lay out your towel, build sandcastles, have a gentle paddle, ramble through a rockpool or just a quiet place to sit and watch the surf, you’re sure to find a beach to suit.


Anstey’s Cove
Shingle and rocky beach located within five minutes walk from the hotel. Dogs allowed, café, beach shop, deckchair/sunbed hire and chalet hire.

Oddicombe Beach
Sand and shingle beach just below the north end of Babbacombe Downs. Parking is half a mile from the beach. Steep access but try the cliff railway (great fun). No dogs, swimming safe with care, toilets, café, beach shop, deckchair/sunbed hire.

Babbacombe Beach
A sand and shingle beach popular for sailing and fishing off the breakwater. Steep access from Beach Road, swimming safe with care, limited parking, dogs allowed, toilets, café, deckchair/sunbed hire.


WALKS - A stretch of green and pleasant coast and countryside is never far away in Torbay.

Torbay is blessed with a superb array of natural features along its 22 miles of coastline; the steep slopes that tumble down to the broad sweep of the Bay; the cliffs and headlands that punctuate the coastline; the green valleys that cut down to the sea; and the Victorian gardens and landscape planting that set off these natural contours.

There are over 100 miles of footpaths and horse-riding routes criss-crossing Torbay.

The most popular walks include:

Walls Hill Walk 5km/3 m (accessible via the hotel's grounds)
The route follows two of Torbay's ribbon woodlands, up from sea level to the boundary of Torbay, and back down. On the way you will discover drystone walls overgown with ferns and trees, ancient wood-banks overhung with huge boundary trees and hazel coppice, flush with bluebells in spring.


Bishop's Walk - 4.5 km/3 m (accessible via the hotel's grounds)
An ever-changing coastal stroll along generally level ground, visiting Torbay's "other" limestone headland, Hope's Nose, the drama of Thatcher Rock and the hidden footpaths through Lincombe Woods to Kent's Cavern - ancient caves with signs of early human remains.