SELF CATERING TARIFF 2008

Self catering from £200 to £560 a week Lets are Friday-to-Friday, with long weekends available in low season Bed linen, electricity & gas are included in the price

From our visitors' book: Mr P, South Wales "This was our first experience of self-catering and we fancy you've spoiled us for everything...our predecessors who said that the Salt Loft was 'an absolute joy' were absolutely right." The Farmers, Cambs: "The apartment is one of the very best!" The Hills, Aylesbury "Lovely holiday in beautiful area - and in a perfect, well-appointed flat, filled with thoughtful touches." Glyn and Jill, Helston: "What a wonderful flat. It fulfilled our expectations, so lovely to be able to wonder out and suddenly be in the hustle and bustle of Fowey. The perfect place to unwind and recharge batteries." Jo & Paul, Lincs: "Beautiful apartment, a real home from home, wonderful location, couldn't have been better..... You've got it just right." Chris and Ali, Peterborough: "Fantastic flat, great town. Hope to come back."

Self catering Holiday Apartment in Fowey

A apartment that sleeps two people

A QUIET SPOT A PEBBLE'S THROW FROM THE QUAY. TWO MINUTES FROM MOST OF FOWEY'S 19 PUBS AND RESTAURANTS

NEAR THE EDEN PROJECT AND HELIGAN. BRIGHT, MODERN, COMFORTABLE

Tucked away, yet in the heart of Fowey, this stylish apartment offers private, quality accommodation in a secluded spot just behind the quay.

On the second floor of a character conversion with all its windows facing south, the flat is a bright, airy, contemporary space, with a whiff of the sea.

ACCOMMODATION

It is reached via a hidden alleyway off Fore Street and is therefore just yards from most of Fowey's excellent pubs, restaurants and shops, yet is private and quiet. Two flights of marble stairs lead to the flat's front door, which opens onto a corridor. Across this is the door to an open plan living area nearly 20 feet long, with two dormer windows looking across the town and two Velux roof lights adding light.

Kitchen units ranged across one wall offer a gas hob, oven, microwave, hand-held electric blender and whisk, toaster and integrated fridge with a small ice box, pots, pans, dinner service and glassware. (Some essentials like washing-up detergent and condiments are provided). The dining area has a circular table and four chairs.

At the other, "L" shaped, end of the room is a relaxing living area, two tub chairs, a TV, video, radio/CD player, tables and lamps and a large sofa. Along the corridor is a large cupboard, containing a washer/drier, iron and ironing board. Next door is the bathroom, which has a shower over the bath. Across the corridor is the bedroom, which has two Velux roof lights and blinds. This room has a double bed, bedside cupboards, a wardrobe for storage, and a clock alarm/radio. The flat has laminate wood style flooring and gas central heating.

FOWEY

Fowey is an ancient port with narrow, winding streets which once thrived on imports such as salt, wine and iron from Spain and France and exports such as tin, cloth, fish (especially pilchards) and hides. It was notorious for its lusty pirates and smugglers.

Today it still flourishes, not just because owners of pleasure craft and tourists are drawn by its natural beauty, but also because its sheltered deep-water harbour is used by huge foreign cargo ships that call regularly for a cargo of china clay.

More recently, large cruise ships have used the harbour facilities for overnight stays, dropping off passengers who are carried by arrangement to visit the Eden Project six miles away, or to The Lost Gardens of Heligan, about 12 miles drive.

The town is in a delightful setting, at the mouth of the Fowey River, facing a skirt of National Trust protected woodlands which slope down to brush the waves on the other side of the estuary.

In summer visitors can hire sailing or motor boats to explore the creeks up river and can take boat trips to Polperro and Mevagissey.

The Bodinnick car ferry at one end of the town links motorists with routes to Polperro, Looe and the south-east Cornish coast beyond, while a foot ferry at the other end whisks passengers across to the charming village of Polruan from where lights wink at Fowey across the estuary at night. Fowey's magnetic appeal rewards visitors with a lively selection of pubs (5) a bar and restaurants (13) serving excellent food, priced to suit every pocket. Fish, lobster, crab and local scallops, mussels and oysters are on many menus.

Walkers particularly enjoy the coastal path to the Gribbin Head light house and beyond to Polkerris, where a seaside pub provides refreshment for the return hike, or the rewarding Hall Walk, which threads through the woodlands from the ferry at Bodinnick (which has an ancient inn) to Polruan, where two pubs offer refreshment and the wooded walks up river at Lerryn, where there is a creekside pub. The Luxulyan Valley about five miles away also offers a spectacular woodland walk, with a decent pub in the village nearby.

Novelist Daphne du Maurier chose the area as her home and her work is celebrated every May during a ten-day literature festival . In the second week of August, the annual Regatta is a huge draw, with entertainment, fireworks, races and competitions making a carnival atmosphere.

Once tasted, Fowey's delights haunt visitors, who return again and again to "enjoy".