South West St Ives
Treloyhan Manor St Ives
Independent pet-friendly review by Four Legged Guests · updated August 2026 · paw rating built from 5 verified guest reviews mentioning pets
Bring your dog if
- You want a whole-property rental - no shared lobbies or corridors to navigate with your dog
- You're basing yourself in St Ives / the South West and want a pet-friendly anchor for day trips
- The wider guest experience is strong - guests rate this 9.0/10 overall on booking platforms
Worth knowing
- Pet fee: £30 per pet per night - research-verified; confirm at booking
How this review was built Evidence, sources, refresh cadence
- Evidence: 5 pet-mention guest reviews sourced from major booking platforms - guests who explicitly mentioned travelling with a dog. Each review is screened for pet-relevance, then judged for sentiment to compute the paw rating.
- Not a personal visit. We don't stay at every hotel we cover - we summarise patterns from real guest reviews, paraphrased and never quoted verbatim. Full standard on our editorial policy page.
- Wider context: The property has 150 guest reviews overall across booking platforms, averaging 9.0/10 - the paw rating reflects only the pet-mentioning subset.
- Last refreshed: August 2026. Policies and pricing drift; we re-check on a rolling basis. Confirm specifics with the property at the moment you book.
- How the paw rating works: Full detail on the methodology page, including the three verification gates and known limitations.
Pet policy at a glance
- Pet fee: £30 per pet, per night.
- Dogs are welcome in every suite and lodge, added as an optional extra when you book.
- Dogs must not be left unattended at any time, including inside your accommodation.
- Dogs must be kept on a lead while anywhere on the estate.
- Dogs are not allowed in the bar or the main manor house.
- Owners are asked to clean up after their dogs.
- Service animals are explicitly welcomed.
Pet-friendly summary
Treloyhan Manor sits in private grounds on the hill above St Ives, a Victorian house converted into large self-catering suites with lodges out in the garden and views down across the bay. It is, with very little qualification, one of the most dog-oriented places to stay in west Cornwall: dogs are welcome in every suite and every lodge, rather than in a handful of designated rooms.
That shows in the detail. Guests travelling with dogs describe a warm reception and thoughtful arrival touches - bread, cheese and a drink waiting in the kitchen - and consistently report that the pet-allocated suites are nothing like the tired afterthought they had braced for. It earns 4.6 out of 5 from dog owners. A charge of £30 per dog, per night applies, added as an optional extra when you book.
The house rules are firm and mostly sensible. Dogs stay on a lead anywhere on the estate, they are not allowed into the bar or the main manor house, and they must never be left unattended - including inside your own accommodation. That last one is the rule most likely to reshape a trip, because it rules out an evening out unless someone stays behind, so plan the evenings around it before you book.
The honest flip side of being this dog-friendly is that the place can feel dog-heavy, and not everyone wants that. Guests have reported a strong dog smell in a bedroom and the odd hair on the bedding, against otherwise spotlessly clean rooms, and one recurring view is that the property would be near the top of its class in the area if it were not so thoroughly given over to dogs. Wifi is patchy throughout.
Neither is much of a dealbreaker if you are here for the dog and the coast. St Ives town, Porthminster beach and the coast path are all walkable, and Porthminster restricts dogs to before 10am and after 6pm through the summer season, which suits an early riser with a lead in hand.
It suits a couple or family with one or two dogs who want a spacious, comfortable St Ives base and are happy - or actively pleased - to be among other dog owners.
Highlights from pet-mentioning reviews
What reviewers travelling with dogs consistently noted about staying here.
- Dogs welcome in every suite and lodge
- Welcome hamper of bread, cheese and drinks
- Dogs never left unattended, even indoors
- Walkable to St Ives and Porthminster beach
- £30 per dog, per night
- Very dog-heavy atmosphere throughout
About this hotel
Treloyhan Manor is a five-star apart-hotel set in its own wooded grounds on the hill above St Ives, with self-catering suites in a Victorian manor house and lodges in the garden. The suites are large, and many look out across the bay. St Ives town, Porthminster beach and the South West Coast Path are all within a walk.
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Location
Trelyon avenue, St Ives, TR26 2RX
