Cheerful Holiday Home at Landscove Holiday Park, Brixham

This is a privately let holiday home on Landscove Holiday Park, which sits on the cliffs above Brixham off Gillard Road. The pitch for a dog owner is straightforward: you get a self-contained unit with its own door rather than a hotel corridor, on a park that takes dogs as a matter of course, with open ground and coast path a few minutes' walk away. Guests who bring dogs consistently point at the walking as the reason the stay worked. It earns a 4.5 out of 5 paw rating.

What lifts it above the average park let is the hosts. Arriving guests find a welcome pack, and dog owners find blankets left out for the dog alongside it - the sort of small, specific preparation that tells you the owners have thought about who is actually turning up rather than simply ticking the pets-accepted box. The unit itself gets described as spotless, comfortable and properly equipped for self-catering.

The park's rules are the ones you would expect and worth knowing before you arrive: dogs stay on a lead anywhere in the grounds, and off the furniture indoors. That lead rule is a genuine consideration if your dog is used to being loose around a site, though the coastal footpaths just outside give you somewhere to let them stretch.

Brixham itself is close - the harbour, the fish market and a good number of dog-welcoming pubs - and Berry Head's nature reserve, Sharkham Point and the South West Coast Path are all reachable on foot or with a very short drive. Paignton and Torquay are a straightforward run up the coast.

Best suited to a couple or small family with one well-behaved lead-trained dog who want a quiet, clean self-catering base with serious walking on the doorstep, and who do not mind the structure of a holiday park.