Discover Scilly vs Explore Scilly

Discover Scilly is your local guide to the Isles of Scilly Make the most of your time on the islands with Discover Scilly, a handy travel companion built for visitors, holidaymakers, and anyone exploring Scilly. Find places to eat, shop, stay, and visit across the islands, with local listings, photos, contact details, maps, and directions all in one place. Plan your trip with saved places, reminders, and stay details, so your island days are easier to organise. Explore beaches, landmarks, attractions, activities, events, and local businesses, from well-loved favourites to smaller hidden gems. Check useful island information including weather, tides, maps, and nearby places, helping you plan around the rhythm of island life. Discover Scilly helps you explore more, plan better, and support local businesses while enjoying everything the Isles of Scilly have to offer.

SCILLY LIVE Everything that decides your day, on one screen. Skybus flights, Scillonian III sailings and Penzance Helicopters, today and the days ahead Live tracking on the map, so you can see where your boat or flight is right now The island boats from St Mary’s quay, straight from the Boatmen’s board, with a picker for Tresco, Bryher, St Martin’s and St Agnes Fog and visibility at the airports, wind, sea state, tides and the weather now Service advisories from the operators, grouped by day PLAN YOUR TRIP Tell us where you are staying, your dates and what you love, and get a day by day itinerary built around the boats and the tides. Places to eat, things to do, island hops, rest days, what to pack and what to book. Download it as a PDF, add it to your calendar and open it again anywhere with your trip ID. LATE AVAILABILITY Fancy a last minute escape? Island hotels, B&Bs, cottages and campsites post their spare nights straight into the app, so you can see who has room this week and book direct with the owner. TRAVEL ALERTS Turn on alerts and we let you know when it matters: a new advisory, a fog hold, a cancelled sailing or a change to the boats. Choose the services you use, how much you want to hear, and quiet hours overnight. Visiting? Add your dates and you also get a note the week before and each morning of your trip. WORKS WITH NO SIGNAL Save the whole guide to your phone before you head off. Island pages, maps, places, timetables, tides and your itinerary all keep working on the off islands, at sea and anywhere the signal drops. FIND YOUR WAY Island maps with beaches, viewpoints, history and places to eat Around me shows what is nearby with walking times, and works offline Guided walks that tell each stop’s story as you arrive what3words addresses for exact spots OVER 500 PLACES Places to eat, stay, shop and explore across all five inhabited islands, with opening hours, dog friendly details and walking times from the quay. Plus What’s on, useful contacts and our guides and stories about island life. RUN A PLACE TO STAY? Accommodation providers can add late availability from their own listing in minutes, putting spare nights in front of visitors who are already planning their trip. Explore Scilly is an independent guide. It is not run by Isles of Scilly Travel, Penzance Helicopters or the boat operators. Always check with the operator before you travel, and remember the boat and the weather have the final word.