For your stay
What to pack
Porthpean beach is five minutes' walk from the cottage. These are the things worth packing for it, or ordering to arrive before you do.
A few things worth having for the beach, the harbour wall and the coast path. Each one links to Amazon, with the time its price was checked.
For the beach
100 Secret Walks (National Trust)
£12.36
Price checked September 23, 2026, 02:53 AM
A hundred quieter paths — including Cornwall’s — for the days when the beach hands you over to the coast path. The right book to leave on the cottage shelf and take home anyway.
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41″ Bodyboard with Leash
£36.00
Price checked September 23, 2026, 02:53 AM
A 41-inch board with leash and slick bottom — the fast lane from the shallows at Porthpean. Sunflowers optional but included.
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Beach Boules Set
£10.99
Price checked September 23, 2026, 02:53 AM
Eight colourful boules in a carry caddy — the beach game that starts friendly and ends in a measuring dispute. Light enough for the walk down, robust enough for the walk back.
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Classic Striped Beach Windbreak
£11.99
Price checked September 23, 2026, 02:53 AM
The great British beach institution: stripy, tall, and the difference between a lovely afternoon at Porthpean and an involuntary sand-blasting. Wooden poles, generous span — claim your patch properly.
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Crabbing Line & Bait Bag
£9.75
Price checked September 23, 2026, 02:53 AM
A proper crab line with bait bag — everything a small (or large) explorer needs for an afternoon on the harbour wall. Bacon for bait, patience for technique, bucket of water for the guests of honour.
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Dock & Bay Quick-Dry Beach Towel (Large)
£29.99
Price checked September 23, 2026, 02:54 AM
Sand genuinely does not stick to it, it dries in minutes, and it packs into its own pouch the size of a paperback — made from recycled bottles. The towel that stops the car smelling of wet towel.
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Pop-Up Beach Dome Shelter (1–3 person)
£30.99
Price checked September 23, 2026, 02:54 AM
Up in seconds, down almost as fast, with pegs and a sand pocket for the Porthpean breeze. Somewhere to put the baby, the picnic or yourself when the sun turns from pleasant to relentless.
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Rock Pool Nets & Collapsible Bucket Set
£9.99
Price checked September 23, 2026, 02:54 AM
Five telescopic nets and a bucket that folds flat in a bag. The rocks at the east end of the beach fill with pools an hour after high water, and this is all the equipment a morning there requires.
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Waterproof Picnic Blanket (200×180)
£14.99
Price checked September 23, 2026, 02:53 AM
Big enough for the whole party, waterproof-backed against Cornish grass, and it folds into its own carry bag. Sand shakes off; memories don’t.
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The forecast turns, the tide is out, and the afternoon needs filling. Puzzles, cards and a book about the path past the door.
Articulate! The Fast Talking Description Game
£18.00
Price checked September 23, 2026, 02:54 AM
Describe as many as you can before the timer goes, without saying the word. Four to twenty players, teams of any size, and the surest way to discover how your family communicates under pressure.
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Bananagrams
£14.99
Price checked September 23, 2026, 02:54 AM
A hundred and forty-four letter tiles in a banana-shaped pouch — no board, no pencil, no waiting your turn. Sets up on any table in ten seconds and packs away just as fast when the sun comes back.
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Dobble
£9.00
Price checked September 23, 2026, 02:53 AM
Fifty-five cards, always exactly one matching symbol between any two — spot it first and shout. Five minutes to learn, works from age six to grandparents, travels in its own little tin.
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Gibsons Mousehole 1000-Piece Jigsaw
£18.95
Price checked September 23, 2026, 02:53 AM
Mousehole harbour in 1000 pieces, from Gibsons (making jigsaws since 1919). Claim the big table, put the kettle on, and accept that nobody is going anywhere until the sky sorts itself out.
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Monopoly — Cornwall Edition
£33.65
Price checked September 23, 2026, 02:53 AM
Monopoly with the boot on Cornish soil — buy St Ives, put hotels on the Eden Project, and argue about the rules the traditional way. An entire afternoon, guaranteed.
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The Salt Path — Raynor Winn
£5.00
Price checked September 23, 2026, 02:53 AM
The South West Coast Path memoir — the very path that runs past the door. Read it while the rain hits the window and feel considerably better about having a roof.
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Waddingtons No.1 Playing Cards
£2.39
Price checked September 23, 2026, 02:53 AM
The classic linen-finish deck. Rummy, whist, racing demon, or a grimly contested game of cheat — the cheapest insurance policy against a wet Tuesday ever printed.
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Wooden Double-Six Dominoes
£17.11
Price checked September 23, 2026, 02:53 AM
Twenty-eight proper dominoes with brass spinners, in a sliding-lid wooden box that feels like it belongs on a pub windowsill. The right game for the last hour before bed.
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