The Idle Rocks is a delightful, boutique-style hotel in Cornwall, with a long standing reputation for good food. The hotel's Water's Edge Restaurant, with its magnificent harbour views, has received award recognition for more than 20 consecutive years.

The location of The Idle Rocks hotel is picture-perfect.  Placed at the heart of St Mawes, "capital" of the Roseland Peninsular - an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty - The Rocks (as it is affectionately known) offers guests a fabulous setting with wonderful views, comfortable rooms - all of which are individually decorated - superb dining, good hospitality and space to relax and de-stress. 

For much of the year, guests can enjoy the outdoors and harbour activity, from a front row position on the hotel's spacious waterside terrace.  During the few colder months that Cornwall experiences, guests can seek the comforts of the lounge with its real log fire.  The Idle Rocks is a year-round destination and the winter months attract visitors, many whom return year after year, in the hope of some exciting storm watching from a ringside seat!

St Mawes is still very much a sea faring community and is home to a small fishing fleet.  Boats and yachts, locally owned or visiting, are continually at anchor in the harbour and beyond.  Most months there are ferries and water taxis bustling in and out, carrying visitors to Falmouth and up the Helford or Fal rivers to Truro and beyond.

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