Elevate Business Awards
BEST BOUTIQUE GUEST HOUSE – TORQUAY 2026
Garway Lodge Guest House
Recognised for warm hospitality, thoughtful details and a consistently high-quality guest experience on the English Riviera.
Garway Lodge Guest House has been named Best Boutique Guest House – Torquay 2026 by Elevate Business Awards, recognition for a small guest house on the English Riviera that has built its reputation one warm welcome at a time.
Tucked away on Avenue Road, close to the seafront and the South West Coast Path, Garway Lodge deliberately keeps things small – just five room styles, from cosy single en-suites to king-size doubles. What guests remember, though, tends to be the smaller touches: a fridge stocked and ready, a dressing gown waiting on the bed, Netflix already queued up, and more often than not a home-made cake left in the room as a welcome.
Breakfast is where that care really shows. A full cooked breakfast comes with every stay, vegetarian and vegan guests are catered for as a matter of course rather than an afterthought, and it is the meal that guests most often mention in reviews long after checkout.
Dogs are welcome too, and not grudgingly – well-behaved four-legged guests get their own pet-friendly rooms, while walkers coming off the coast path are given the kind of welcome usually reserved for returning regulars.
That reputation has not gone unnoticed. Garway Lodge holds a four-star gold rating from Visit England and the AA, was awarded Visit England’s ROSE award for Recognition of Service Excellence in 2024, and featured in TripAdvisor’s Travellers’ Choice awards for 2025, placing it among the top 10 per cent of accommodation worldwide.
None of that would mean much without the guests behind it. Garway Lodge holds a five out of five rating across more than 100 independent reviews – every single one of them five stars – with beaches, golf courses and public transport links all within two miles, and both adults-only stays and romantic breaks on offer for guests after a quieter corner of the English Riviera.
Beyond the certificates on the wall, the award reflects something guests have been saying in their reviews for years: that a stay at Garway Lodge feels less like a check-in and more like being welcomed home, a spirit that shows no sign of changing as the guest house heads into its next season.
Contact Garway Lodge Guest House
Address:
79 Avenue Road, Torquay, Devon, TQ2 5LL
Telephone:
01803 293126
Email:
info@garwaylodge.co.uk
Website:
www.garwaylodge.co.uk