CRTIC Services

At our Tourist Information Centre, on the A390 by the JET Service Station, our staff can help you plan your visit to Cornwall & the Cornish Riviera.  Call us on (01726) 879 500 or visit us when you're in St Austell - a great centre for visiting all of Cornwall.

Accommodation - We produce a local Accommodation Guide and have an Accommodation Booking service - either in advance or when you're with us at the TIC.

Information - We have a huge range of leaflets about all manner of attractions throughout Cornwall.

Internet Access - Totally Free Wi-Fi access at all times. Or use one of our hi-spec, Broadband computers - £1.00 per half-hour. Check your emails or browse the Web!

Travel - We keep a complete range of local bus & rail timetables.  We are agents for National Express Coaches and can book tickets for journeys throughout the UK.

Travel - Isles of Scilly - We are agents for the Scillonian boat service from Penzance and the Sky-Bus service from Newquay, Lands End, Bristol & Southampton airports.  We are also agents for the Helicopter service from Penzance heliport.

Tickets - We sell the Fast-Track Eden Project tickets - they're great value, get you in there quicker and last for a whole year!

Box Office - We provide a Box Office service for a number of local venues and touring productions :

• Kneehigh Theatre - Celebrating their 30th Anniversary with the opening of  The Asylum for a Summer Season at Chiverton Cross (on the A30) - central for all of Cornwall
• Footsbarn Theatre - are setting up their BigTop at Polzeath, North Cornwall for a 2-week run at the end of July 2010.  An International Theatre Company, now based in France, they started life in 1971 in Cornwall!
• The Keay Theatre, St Austell - linked to Cornwall College with a range of events and productions throughout the year
• St Austell Players - a great, popular amateur company - 4 play productions each year plus a Pantomime
• The Acorn Arts Centre - music, theatre, comedy, puppets - a real variety of events throughout the year at this popular venue in the centre of Penzance
• Carn to Cove - a wide variety of events in village and community halls throughout Cornwall
• Daphne du Maurier Festival of Arts & Literature - an annual celebration each May based in Fowey, for many years the home and inspiration for Daphne du Maurier's many books.
• Restormel Arts - regular Jazz and Folk evenings at the Brewery, St Austell, plus touring open-air productions.
• The Burrell Theatre - Truro School's excellent, 200-seater theatre with local and school productions plus celebrated guest acts
• The Roseland Festival - an annual event in October with a range of local and international artistes - a huge variety of events to please everyone. Based in St Mawes, Tregony, Veryan and the Roseland Peninsula
• TrueWest and Trifle Gathering - a young, professional theatre company based in West Cornwall with a touring production each summer
• Jazz at Rosteague - a quarterly jazz evening in the converted Cider Press Barn at Rosteague Manor, nr Gerrans on the Roseland Peninsula

Books and Maps - we have a great range of local interest and walks books plus local and Ordnance Survey maps.

Treasure Trails - a great way for a family or friends to spend 2 or 3 hours, following a set of clues around any one of Cornwall's main towns - and a chance to win the Treasure at the end of the Trail. We stock all of the Trails which costs £5.00 each - the Treasure builds up during the year. You could be the winner!

Office services - We can help with Fax and Photocopying services

Anything else?  - over the year, we've answered all manner of strange requests - just ask us!