Toddler sessions (6m-2yrs)
Messy play, music, and rhymes, sensory and heuristic play in a calm, stimulating, and supportive environment. Each child’s routine is incorporated within their play session.
Stay at Watergate Bay this autumn
Take in the sea views from the 25-metre pool. Relax after a beach walk in one of our dog-friendly rooms. Stride out onto the coast path, sink back with a cocktail, and as the sun begins to set, gather around the table at one of our three restaurants.
A wide open beach, Atlantic ocean waves, and a salty breeze to blow away the cobwebs.
Stay and stride from your bedroom to the sand.
Our rooms
Watch the surfers from a roll-top bath. Tuck children into bunk beds after hours of adventures. Take on the day, then turn in for the night.
Beach lofts overlooking the waves, contemporary double rooms, village apartments for larger groups and family suites with separate rooms for the children.
Surf lessons
From surf and stand-up paddleboard lessons to outdoor fitness classes and beach yoga, Wavehunters at the Extreme Academy offers a range of surfing and beachside adventures for all ages and abilities.
Kids' Zone sessions
Booked through the mobile guest app or with the team ahead of your stay.
Kids' sessions (3-8yrs)
Sessions include beach activities (wellies and coats essential), craft workshops, cookery classes, science experiments, and imaginative play.
XA Club (8-12yrs)
XA Club activities include beach sessions, sports tournaments, film nights, cookery skills, team games, craft workshops, quizzes, and board game nights.
Beach school
Beach School school holiday sessions educate and inspire children and teenagers about the coastal environment through various games and activities.
Beach schoolBabysitting
Our registered babysitters are available between 6pm and 1am. Requests can be made can be made by completing an enquiry form ahead of your stay.
Enquiry formBaby monitoring
Works across all our restaurants, including The Beach Hut. Subject to availability, we'll give you a camera and a tablet to use around the hotel. Subject to availability.
Latest offers
Last minute
There’s no time like the present. Be spontaneous and check what’s available online.
Offer detailsChristmas house party
Our four-night Christmas break includes breakfast and dinner, Christmas Day lunch, activities and all the festive trimmings.
Learn moreDinner, bed and breakfast
Stay with us with a three course dinner in Zacry's included.
Dinner inclusiveSki break pop-up in St Anton
We're heading to the slopes in February 2025 to celebrate 25 years of "ski resort on a beach".
Join usThe Getaway
Stay two nights with dinner in two different restaurants, Zacry's and The Living Space.
Offer detailsStay a while
Book a break of six nights or more and receive a 15% discount. Available anytime of year on bed and breakfast and dinner inclusive.
Call to bookNew Year by the sea
Our New Year three-night dinner inclusive break starts on the 30 December until 2 January.
Learn moreUpcoming events
Find out what's going on in the Bay this summer.
December Swim break
Have you ever wanted to perfect your front crawl, and swim smoother, faster, and further with more confidence?
Read moreMay Skybar
Skybar's apres-sea club nights are back on the cliffs of Watergate Bay, overlooking the beach below.
Read moreArts on the Beach
A free-to-attend family weekend of whale-theatre, performance, dance, music and creative workshops. A celebration of creativity, community, imagination and ocean culture.
Read moreWatergate Bay Sprint
The Watergate Bay Sprint returns in for 2025, with hundreds of cars competing against the clock for the best time.
Read moreThree restaurants
Eat and drink overlooking the waves in all three restaurants in the Bay. Elegant dining with a three-course evening menu right on the sea wall with horizon gazing views in Zacry's. Laid-back, breezy and considered food in The Beach Hut all supported by a sustainable purpose. Or, small plates, salad bowls, a selection from the grill in The Living Space.
Swim Club
Where outdoors meets indoors and beach meets hotel. Our space for active relaxation, swim in our infinity pool, visit the sauna or the cliff top hot tub, take time for a massage, unwind in the ocean room with cocktails from the café bar.
Who's coming?
Virtual tour
Keep in touch from afar by wandering through the hotel in our virtual tour. Visit Swim Club, The Living Space even the Kids’ Zone, before taking a look inside each of the rooms and daydreaming about your next visit.
Watergate Bay gift cards
A gift card is the key to all things Watergate Bay; a stay, dinner in Zacry's, cocktails in The Living Space, a surf lesson at Wavehunters, or a treatment in Swim Club.
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