SUP, or stand up paddleboarding as it’s also known, combines outdoor enjoyment with a superb workout – all that balancing and paddling is excellent for the core. But where to begin?
We’ve found some of the best places to stay with excellent paddleboarding right on your doorstep. All except one offer tuition and the water is often warmest at the end of summer (not that you’re going to fall in, of course).
The best paddleboarding destination hotels are:
- Best for self-catering: Bank Ground Farm, Cumbria, Booking.com
- Best for bringing your pets: Watersedge, Hickling Broad, Norfolk
- Best for a budget: Signal Rocks Cottages, Glencoe, Scottish Highlands
- Best for family-friendly fun: Taymouth Marina, Loch Tay, Perthshire, Booking.com
- Best for boat lovers: Bath’s Boutique Boatel, Bath, Somerset
- Best for night-time adventure: Phyched Paddleboarding, Anglesey, Wales
- Best for spotting marine life: Landmark Trust, Lundy Island, Devon
- Best for a stylish stay: Selina, Brighton, East Sussex, Booking.com
- Best for an eco-friendly holiday: SUP in a Bag, St Agnes, Cornwall
The views from Bank Ground Farm are unrivalled
(Bank Ground Farm)
Paddle back in time to the innocence of Swallows and Amazons on the remote, but sheltered, northeast shore of the five-mile-long Coniston Water, Arthur Ransome’s inspiration.
Bank Ground Farm offers a gorgeous B&B and self-catering cottages on a working farm where the original Swallows and Amazons film was shot. It has a kilometre of lake frontage and a jolly nice cafe serving their own produce. SUP tuition and tours are available from Lake District Paddleboarding and you can hire boards by the day or week.
Price: Rates from £182
Paddleboarding from £50 for three hours
The largest of the Norfolk Broads, Hickling, edged with expansive reed beds and dotted with thatched cottages and boathouses, is not only quaintly picturesque, it’s also a hotspot for wildlife including swallowtail butterflies and Norfolk hawker dragonflies.
Norfolk Outdoor Adventures provide professional SUP teachers who even instruct instructors. They offer tailor-made tuition including a beginner’s lesson in how to paddleboard with your dog. Stay nearby at Watersedge, a newly re-thatched cottage sleeping nine with a boathouse and rowing boat.
Price: Seven nights self-catering for nine from £1,100
Two-hour paddleboarding session, £40
As well as getting some exercise, at Signal Rock Glencoe, paddleboarding is a great way to take in the views
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