The Engine Inn

2.5 star property
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Reviews

7.6 out of 10

Good

Popular amenities

  • Bar
  • Pet-friendly
  • Parking included
  • Breakfast included
  • Restaurant

Explore the area

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Cripplesease, Nancledra, Penzance, England, TR20 8NF
  • Leach Pottery Museum
    4 min drive
  • Porthminster Beach
    14 min drive
  • Carbis Bay Beach
    15 min drive
  • Penzance (PZE-Penzance Heliport)
    13 min drive

Room options

Comfort Suite, Ensuite

  • Sleeps 4
  • 1 King Bed and 1 Double Trundle Bed

Double Room, Accessible, Courtyard View

  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

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About the area

Penzance

With a stay at The Engine Inn in Penzance, you'll be steps from Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and a 4-minute drive from Leach Pottery Museum. .This inn is 3 mi (4.8 km) from St. Ives Theatre and 3.1 mi (5.1 km) from Carbis Bay Beach.

What's nearby

  • St Ives Harbour - 6 min drive
  • Tate St. Ives - 7 min drive
  • Porthmeor Beach - 12 min drive
  • Porthminster Beach - 14 min drive
  • Carbis Bay Beach - 15 min drive

Getting around

  • Lelant Station - 7 min drive
  • Newquay (NQY-Newquay Cornwall) - 55 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪The Star Inn - ‬6 min drive
  • ‪Sharkys Fish & Chips - ‬5 min drive
  • ‪St.Ives Brewery - the Brewhouse - ‬8 min drive
  • ‪The Engine Inn - ‬1 min walk
  • ‪The Hain Line - ‬6 min drive

About this property

The Engine Inn

Inn in Penzance with free breakfast and a restaurant
The Engine Inn offers 2 accommodations.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
Make yourself at home in one of the 2 guestrooms.
Take in the views from a terrace and a garden and make use of amenities such as a picnic area.
At The Engine Inn, enjoy a satisfying meal at the restaurant. Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at the bar/lounge. A complimentary breakfast is included.
Free self parking is available onsite.
A complimentary breakfast is offered.
The Engine Inn has a restaurant on site.

Languages

English

Property amenities

Parking and public transport

  • Free self-parking on site

Food and drink

  • Free breakfast available
  • 1 restaurant
  • 1 bar

Things to do

  • Billiards/pool table
  • Playground

Family friendly

  • Playground

Guest services

  • No housekeeping

Outdoors

  • BBQ grill(s)
  • Garden
  • Picnic area
  • Terrace

Accessibility

  • If you have any requests for specific accessibility needs, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
  • This property does not have any lifts
  • Wheelchair-accessible path of travel

More

  • Smoke-free property

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 4:00 PM; Check-in end time: 11:00 PM
Early check-in subject to availability

Check-out

Check-out before 10:00 AM

Pets

Pets allowed
Service animals are welcome, and are exempt from fees

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome

Payment types

Important information

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards and cash

We should mention

This property does not have elevators
This property welcomes guests of all sexual orientations and gender identities (LGBTQ+ friendly)

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The Engine Inn Reviews

Reviews

7.6

Good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 29 out of 67 reviews" "
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Rating 4 - Poor. 4 out of 67 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 11 out of 67 reviews" "

7.6/10

Cleanliness

7.6/10

Staff & service

9.0/10

Amenities

7.2/10

Property conditions & facilities

7.6/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Susan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2024

8/10 Good

Jackie

Stayed 1 night in Jun 2024

10/10 Excellent

kevin

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 5 nights in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Greg

Business traveller
Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

roger

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2023

6/10 Okay

Lynda

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Has potential
The food and the service was very good. The place itself could be amazing. The thing that let it down for us was the cleanliness. It felt like the whole place could do with a deep clean.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2023

6/10 Okay

Jayne

Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Gill

Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

2/10 Terrible

Kwok

Travelled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Don't choose this hotel
It is totally unacceptable, We pay £89 for one night, we are late check in about 10p.m. We found that there are many spider nets on the top of the room, white and big, just like a abandoned house just leave there for decades. We request change room, but there are only two and fully booked. Couldn't imagine who would like to sleep over night facing the spider net. And we ask the lady could we refund or refund half to us because we are decide to book another room cause my little daughter is scared to cry. She said we could apply online through hotels.com but she turn around refused to refund us by replying hotels.com, I don't know why the hotels.com only protecting their own interests. It is unreasonable and unacceptable paying £89 for living a room, like this one, it is my first time in my life go to a hotel room like this. Nerver book this hotel.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

10/10 Excellent

Sally

Stayed 1 night in Mar 2023

2/10 Terrible

Prabhjot

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2022

10/10 Excellent

rob

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
A pub stay as it should be.
Lovely proper pub stop. Large room. Food was good and well stocked bar. The staff and customers very pleasant which as a lone traveller is always nice. Recommended.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2022

6/10 Okay

A

Travelled with family
Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Staff were very friendly and accommodating and the Inn is in a great location, with generous, spacious rooms. The breakfast was delicious. Our stay would have been perfect if any care had been given to the standards of hygiene. Our room was covered in cobwebs, the shower drain covered in hairs, and the same with the bedsheets. It's a shame that it is not seen as important to not use pillow cases with mascara stains, or to carry out the basic task of vacuuming a rug, which was pretty disgusting. When I mentioned this to the staff, I was told that this was due to the hotel being 'dog friendly'. A very poor excuse for not maintaining basic standards of hygiene. Overall, a few basic steps would have really elevated our stay.
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2022

6/10 Okay

Alison

Liked: Staff & service
Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2021

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Love place to stay, beautiful views, super friendly staff and really cosy room
Stayed 1 night in May 2021

8/10 Good

Tom

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Disliked: Staff & service
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2020

10/10 Excellent

Hill, Wellington UK

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Staff were very friendly and helpful. Great old building turned into a wonderful bedroom very quirky
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2020

10/10 Excellent

Ken, south wales

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
i enjoyed my stay. because it was peaceful. close to the places to visit. the staff were very friendly,the food was excellent.
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2020

2/10 Terrible

Chris

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2020

2/10 Terrible

Tibor

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2020

10/10 Excellent

Ross

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Would definitely stay again
Big room and in a great location. The pub is really nice and breakfast was lovely. The host was very friendly and helpful.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2020

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Look beautiful but poor up close.
The Engine Inn was brilliantly located between Penzance and St Ives and had fantastic local views. The room was spacious and had the potential to be amazing. Unfortunately it was not. The bed stunk although the linen was freshly washed. Bathroom was an excellent size, really useful if you require a wet room but covered in mould and people’s hair who had used it before us. No toilet roll and now shower gel etc to use. The room looks beautiful but it’s really let down. Be warned, if you are downstairs the take ear plugs because the noise from upstairs is so loud - not much management can do about that, it’s an old building with old floorboards but just a helpful tip.
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2020

2/10 Terrible

Ian

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
I’ll detail my very poor experience on trip advisor
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2020

6/10 Okay

Silvia

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2020

10/10 Excellent

Raul

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Look no further for the quaint country experience
We had such a lovely stay at the Engine Inn! The countryside views from the garden are absolutely stunning, the perfect place to enjoy a cocktail and chat with the locals. Owner Bianca was so friendly, and she offers an amazing full breakfast for a great value. The rooms are very cozy, with the exposed beams and rustic decor reminiscent of a simpler time. We would definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a nice country escape!
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2020