Carnson House

Very kind host, great location

A good value stay with friendly owners My room was a small single with en suite. Looked recently modernised and very clean. Bed comfortable and breakfast good and cooked to order. Fine for a single night stay but I would have found the room small for a longer stay. Location very convenient near town and railway station. Quiet location. Owners friendly and helpful

This is a quaint and ideally located guesthouse just across from the train station. Breakfast is superb and our room was immaculate. It is easy to walk from here to anywhere in town including a local favorite fish and chips takeout in a remote part of town (ask the owner). St. Michael’s Mount is a walkable distance, but make sure you time your visit at low tide. Also make sure you try a Cornish pasty at one of its several bakeries.

We stayed at Carnson House for 4 nights. It is a very convenient location, just the other side of the Train station and Bus station. Even better, it has an unheard of check-in time of 10 am, which meant that when we got in on the morning train from St. Austell, we could drop off our luggage in our room and get out what we need to hit the road right away to St. Michael's Mount and Mousehole. Our room, facing the street, was amazingly quiet given that it is a main street and located next to a pub. Breakfasts had a variety of cooked to order options with as little or as much as you would like. The garden out front was very interesting. Our hosts were genuinely concerned with our welfare as visitors and when our tour company (Meneage Tours) cancelled without properly informing us on our last full day, they called and found out what had happened, and then phoned around and found us an alternative means of completing our tour with the local taxi company, Penzance Taxis. They literally saved our day! We can never thank them enough and would happily stay there again if in Penzance.