Penzance parking

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Afternoon , anybody know of any spots to park in Penzance or Hayle , don’t need anything ,just a decent nights Kip :wink: thanks in advance

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You can park on the harbour car park by the wall nice sea view but the waves might keep you awake

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There’s a couple of large lay-bys between Hayle and Penzance the biggest just before you get into Penzance on the left,you can walk it to Morrisons just down road too otherwise like said above you can park on harbour,I think you may have to pay At ticket machines though.

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long rock ind estate

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I live in Penzance.
The harbour Car park is one of the best Town Centre car Parks you can overnight in - it’s 6pm to 8am for HGVs.

Good pubs & pub food within a few minutes walk, views to die for, what’s not to like??

EDIT: I rate the Dock Inn about 2/300 yards to the west.

There is also the Wherrytown car park a bit further west towards Newlyn, seems more of a favorite with Rigids, Lidls, Coop & Alexandran Inn across the road:

The boarded up buiding on Google maps is now Lidls

Or - you could stop at Smokey Joes in Redruth - Old School Cafe, Parking, Main meal & Shower £23 Information for Truckers - Smokey Joe's of Cornwall - Cafe and Truckstop

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Surprised that they still allow parking at PZ. harbour, I parked there weekly back in the 1980,s , and Smokey Joes was an alternative. I seem to remember a cafe on the old Redruth bypass it was b.b. and evening meal, it was used as some sort of nightclub after it shut. Happy days.

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Thanks for the replies chaps , ended up on the car park on commercial rd in Hayle , across from the Cornish arms pub

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Jack-knife:
You can park on the harbour car park by the wall nice sea view but the waves might keep you awake

Not as much as the seagulls landing on the roof, used to be a little joke buy the other drivers back in the eighties, walking back to the cab late at night with chicken a chips, throwing the left overs on top of the cab, bloody seagulls do make a noise when they land in the morning, especially if it was thrown up on a box body with drive a kip in the back, seagulls coming into land an a fibre glassed roof box at 5am like someone building a shed.

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Or have somebody stuff a dead seagull into your open sunroof , which is what happened to my mate when he was parked at South Shields behind the fire station many years ago :smiley: