We are the only British finalist across all 7 categories in Hostelworld’s annual HOSCARS awards and one of 5 finalists in the category of Extraordinary Sustainable Hostel.

Well, no one was expecting Carbis Bay to be announced as the host of the 2021 G7 Summit. It’s bonkers to think of the world’s leaders descending on this little town… at the same time it’s hugely exciting to get Cornwall on the map for something other than beaches and pasties.

Autumn is an awesome time of year in St Ives – it’s so beautiful and still relatively warm. Our lovely receptionist Kaz Turnbull takes you on a coastal walk with Josh Quick of Wild St Ives to find out just what you can find (and eat) on the SW Coast Path. Get foraging this October.

Confusion is a huge barrier to people not recycling plastic, here we try and explain the codes, what they mean and what you can be doing to assist in the recycling of all plastics! We believe that it’s too important an issue for confusion to be an acceptable reason not to recycle.

The crisis of plastic in our environments has been highly publicised for several years now. Major organisations, businesses and the government are making moves to address the over consumption of plastic in our society. The Plastic Free Communities initiative is a grassroots movement to push the over-use of plastic onto the public agenda and also into the political arena.

We love our planet and being so close to the ocean we are reminded daily of the effect of our business and our lives on this relatively fragile ecosystem; but why do we need to save water? Reduce our energy consumption and go plastic free?