Harbour Beach Club, Hotel & Spa

Harbour Beach Club sits right on South Sands beach, a modern four-star hotel built low against the sand with its own spa, restaurant and rooftop terrace above the water.

The building steps down toward the beach in tiers, glass-fronted and timber-clad, with a lily pond and loungers set out along the terrace at its foot.

Rooms looking out to the estuary

Bedrooms are finished in warm terracotta tones with patterned headboards and a small seating chair by the window, most with a balcony door onto the water, one room with sliding glass straight onto its own balcony.

The spa and the rooftop

Downstairs, the spa runs to a hydrotherapy pool with loungers and a separate indoor swimming pool beneath a skylight, plus a gym fitted with free weights and resistance machines. Up top, a rooftop terrace bar looks over the estuary, with lounge seating lit for the evening and a second terrace laid with dining tables at dusk.

Dinner with a water view

The restaurant sits under rattan lanterns behind full-height glass, plating local seafood, a whole lobster served alongside a steak, with a breakfast buffet of granola, fruit and pastries laid out each morning.

Beside South Sands

The hotel stands directly on South Sands, one of the beaches that draws people to Salcombe in the first place, with the town itself close by.

A hotel stay, not a self-catering one

Harbour Beach Club works for a couple or a small group after a proper hotel stay, restaurant, spa and pool included, rather than cooking for themselves, with the beach and the rooftop bar covering both a lazy day and a smarter evening out, right on the sand in Salcombe.