The town of Newquay in Cornwall has long been one of the UK’s most popular seaside holiday resorts, with many booking cheap flights to Newquay due to the lure of its beautiful coastline and countryside and its wealth of accommodation options and activities. Newquay boasting some of the best surfing opportunities in the country at the likes of Fistral Beach, and the English National Surfing Championships are held at Watergate Bay every May.
Newquay is also an excellent base from which to explore the wider region of Cornwall: charming towns such as Padstow and St Ives as well as county capital Truro are within easy reach, as well as attractions such as the Eden Project. Travellers with an interest in history are in luck here too: Cornwall contains remains dating back as far as the Neolithic era, with treasures such as Stone Age henges and megaliths, Bronze Age barrows and stone circles, and Iron Age forts such as Newquay’s cliff castle at Trevelgue Head.
