Where is THAT hotel?

[aviator]

you know the one I mean that pops up in Poirot, is somewhere on the West coast, gets cut off by the tide (or maybe that's Poirot!) and has a tall wheelie thing to get to the hotel.

Info much appreciated by SWIMBO ;-)

 

[rickp]

Burgh Island?

 

[rallyveteran]

burgh island?

 

[aviator]

The very place. Thanks for the quick answers.

Took some time to find exactly where the place is. The link to sea access just shows a nice picture of the sea ;-~

Now if I can find a way to moor up somewhere I can look after her indoors and get a nice trip in on the boat ;-)

 

[billabongjpm]

Best to get a berth in Plymouth and drive to Bigbury.
Hope the staff in the island pub have changed. Bunch of miserable gits last time I was in there

 

[whisper]

You can anchor just E. of the island in settled weather and dinghy ashore.
Can't answer for the staff at the pub but it's a scruffy place at best. Hotel is interesting though.

 

[hlb]

Agafa Crispies Island, you can anchor either side. Great oldy worldly pub, last renivated in about 1600. Hotel looks a bit stuffy. I'd a picture of the water tractor some where, but cant find it.

 

[aviator]

There is a recommended anchorage on the hote website.

Sadly the fancy web designers turned a directions page into an art directors dream.

Directions

If you go to the nice looking by sea block on the right you get just a nice piccy.

If however you click on the text on the left you get the proper information about buoys.

Thanks again all and enough info to hand for a satisfactory visit methinks. Just the one night Sir?.............

 

[hlb]

It's dead easy to visit and both anchorages are ok. I think? Never stopped over night. But boat never moved all day, many times. It's on the SW coast of Devon

 

[Nick_H]

I'd anchor with caution around there, especially on the S side by the rivermouth. Strange things happen in certain tide against riverflow situations there, and you get small but steep breaking waves if there is any swell at all. I've surfed there a few times, and the waves can be steep and ledgy, with strong currents.

 

[mainshiptom]

What a great place...

 

[jhr]

It is nice there, although Haydn's idyllic photo has cunningly concealed Bigbury-on-Sea, a rather unprepossessing little village just across the water (or sand) from Burgh Island.

 

[hlb]

Nowt wrong with Bigbury. Ok it's not your oldy worldy Devon village, but it's not an eye sore.

Been up the river a couple of times. It's a bit tight /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif Never found anywhere suitable to stop though.

 

[whisper]

"Up the river" - I go up there quite often and don't think there is anywhere to stop overnight unless you can dry out. There's a channel tight in to the shore line to port after you've negotiated the small boat moorings - can be exciting going through these on a strongly running tide. However I suspect the holding is poor as it looks as if this spot is strongly scoured by the tide.

Plenty of room to anchor for a couple of hours, on wide sandy area to the E. of this. Good pub at Bantham.
Very pretty little place with the incongruous presence, out of sight around a bend upstream, of a waterski area.

I've often anchored to the E. of Burgh Island, on sand, but it is, as mentioned above, not the place to be in strong onshore winds or swell, as both sides of the island are open to the S and SW.

Entry itself is "very interesting" and I wouldn't attempt it, if there is any swell running.

PS Haydn, I know you know all this. Post was for anyone else that may be interested /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[hlb]

Maybe we did not go far enough up river. There hardly seemed to be room, cant remember why now, maybe to many boats. It's well worth a look up there though.

Burgh Island is the sort of place for nice sunny days, a pint in the pub and a crab butty, before carrying on.

We'd do Plymouth to BI then Hope Cove before Salcolme on nice days.