Travel Blog: Graham Custance

Graham Custance Travel Photographer

In mid-March 2022 we were delighted to host Travel Photographer Graham Custance and his family for a holiday here by the Helford River. “We had explored most areas in Cornwall but we had always wanted to visit the Falmouth area which had so far eluded us, so we were really excited when the opportunity came…

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Supporting Cornwall Community Foundation 

Cornwall Community Foundation | Budock Vean Hotel Charity of the Year

Budock Vean, a family run hotel on the Helford River, have been proud supporters of Cornwall Community Foundation for many years. The Foundation, which was established in 1998, supports community led projects across Cornwall.  In 2020 they awarded 370 grants totalling over £1.6 million to support communities during the pandemic. As well as being a…

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2021 Trip Advisor Travellers’ Choice Award

2021 Travellers' Choice Award

Budock Vean Hotel today announced it has been recognised as a 2021 Travellers’ Choice award winner. This achievement celebrates businesses that consistently deliver fantastic experiences to guests, having earned great traveller reviews on Tripadvisor over the last 12 months. As challenging as the past year was, Budock Vean stood out by continuously delighting their guests.…

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Budock Vean Love Stories…

Paul and Leona| Wedding Hotel in Cornwall

We LOVE a love story, in all their shapes and sizes, and this year our hotel has been bursting with them. We have really enjoyed helping couples tie the knot at our beautiful venue, and we’ve had some gorgeous ring bearers too, you behaved so well with those rings on your collars! If ever there…

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Tony Grace Memorial Golf Trophy

Tony Grace Memorial Trophy

Tuesday 10th August saw the first Tony Grace Memorial Trophy take place at Budock Vean Golf Club, in memory of the club’s President, who sadly passed away last year. As a reflection of Tony’s popularity at Budock Vean, there was a fantastic turn out of 32 senior players, on a day with perfect weather, who competed…

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Holiday Retreat Roots

History of Budock Vean Hotel | Cornwall

This month, as live events slowly come back to life in the UK, we turn our attention to life at Budock Vean in the 1930’s and how the hotel became a holiday retreat for 20th century film makers and artists. In 1930, after a visit to the deserted manor house, Harry Parkinson and Eddie Pilgrim…

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Cornwall Wildlife Trust

Our commitment to helping protect and support our environment is more important now than ever before.  As well as our ongoing drive to run our hotel as sustainability as possible, we are delighted to have renewed our annual support for Cornwall Wildlife Trust. As part of their Wilder Business Network we will continue to help care for…

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Cyber Essentials

Cyber Essentials (from the National Cyber Security Centre) is a simple but effective, Government backed scheme that will help protect our organisation against a wide range of the most common cyber attacks. Cyber attacks come in many shapes and sizes, but the vast majority are very basic in nature, carried out by relatively unskilled individuals.…

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International Museums Day

National Maritime Museum Cornwall, Falmouth

What cracking timing for International Museum Day  – we hope all our friends in museums across Cornwall had a wonderful day yesterday welcoming guests back inside to see their treasures and enjoy their stories. We’re very lucky down here,  in Cornwall you’re never more than 8 miles from a museum. They come in all shapes…

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South West Tourism Awards

South West Tourism Awards | Budock Vean Hotel | Silver Award Winner

The team at Budock Vean Hotel are stacking up their reasons to celebrate when the time is right after winning ANOTHER award. On Thursday 22nd April the hotel, which sits on the Helford River in South Cornwall, won Silver in the ‘Large Hotel of the Year’ category at the South West Tourism Awards. With stiff…

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