Six houses up north,
booked direct.
Check-in at 4 PM
Glen Arbor, Michigan
Hosting since 2011
Homes from $175
Every house
Coffee in the kitchen,
beds made up.
Yesenia’s team cleans and stocks every house the day you arrive, and Oskar walks through it before the door code goes out. Here is what is waiting, and the four things we ask at checkout.
4 PM
Check-in
Door code by text the morning you arrive
In every kitchen
Coffee and a grinder
Beans from a roaster in Traverse City, filters and a kettle
Every house
Made up for you
Beds and towels
Cotton sheets, bath towels and a beach towel for each guest
Every stay
On the counter
A cherry pie
From a farm stand on M-22, for stays of three nights or more
June to October
In the mudroom
Beach gear
Chairs, an umbrella, a cooler and a bag of sand toys
May to September
then
10 AM
Check-out
Four things, and we handle the rest
Before you go
Start the dishwasher
Load it and press start, we unload it
Last morning
Leave them be
Sheets and towels
No need to strip the beds, we bring fresh linens
Every stay
Out by the road
Trash and recycling
Bins go to the curb the night before pickup
Tue and Fri
On your way out
Lock the door
The keypad locks itself two minutes after you leave
Last morning
Want the fridge stocked before you get there? Send a grocery list a week ahead and the market in Glen Arbor delivers it.
No chore list taped to the fridge and no surprise at checkout. The cleaning fee is on every house page.
Sleeps 2 to 10
One cottage,
then six houses.
In 2011 Solveig and Oskar rented out her grandmother’s cottage for one summer to pay for a new roof. Guests kept asking for more room, so we added a cabin, a lake house and a farmhouse, one at a time, and we still clean every one ourselves.
Hosting since
2011
Houses
6, cottage to beach house
Guests
Sleeps 2 to 10
To Glen Arbor
12 minutes or less
Homes.
Six houses near Glen Arbor, from a cottage for two above the bay to a beach house for ten. Our own team cleans every one, and the nightly rate and cleaning fee are on each page.
1 bedroom
Bluff Cottage
Sleeps 2
Above Sleeping Bear Bay
2 bedrooms
Birch Cabin
Sleeps 4
Woods near the Crystal River
3 bedrooms
River Cabin
Sleeps 6
On the Crystal River
4 bedrooms
Orchard House
Sleeps 9
Among the cherry orchards
3 bedrooms
Glen Lake House
Sleeps 8
Little Glen Lake
4 bedrooms
Dune House
Sleeps 10
Lake Michigan shore
A year up north,
from snow to cherry season.
The houses are open all year, and every season has its own reason to come. This year the maples along M-22 turned on October 1, and the last color weekends are nearly full.
Jan
Snow on the dunes
Snowshoes in every mudroom, wood stoves stacked and our lowest rates of the year.
May
Orchards in bloom
The cherry trees flower in mid-May, and the woods behind the cabins fill with morel hunters.
Jul
Cherry season
Farm stands on every road and the lake finally warm enough to swim. July weeks book by February.
Now
Oct
Color tour
The hardwoods along M-22 turn for about two weeks. These weekends book up by July.
Nov
Quiet season
Empty beaches, cider at the farm stands and long walks on the dunes with the dog.
Dec
First snow
Wood stoves lit, the river steaming in the cold and a house to yourselves for the holidays.
The beach.
A hundred and eighty feet of Lake Michigan sand below the deck, an outdoor shower by the path and the sun going down over the water on every clear night.
Steps to the sand
Kayaks in the shed
The lake.
A private dock on Little Glen Lake, a swim raft fifty feet out and water shallow enough for small kids to wade all afternoon.
Dock and swim raft
Paddleboards included
The woods.
Two bedrooms under the birches, a wood stove, a cedar hot tub and a trail from the back door down to the river.
Wood stove and hot tub
Dogs welcome, $75 a stay
Stay longer,
pay less a night,
skip the booking fee.
Weekend
2 nights
Rate as listed
$378
Long weekend
3 nights
Third night 20% off
$529
Full week
7 nights
Seventh night free
$1,134
Book with us and the quote is the full price: nightly rate, one cleaning fee and Michigan lodging tax, with no booking or service fee on top. Free changes up to 30 days before arrival.
Four weekends
worth the drive this fall.
“We clean every house ourselves and leave the porch light on. Everything after that is yours.”
Solveig Brandvold, host since 2011
The door code
comes by text.
Check-in
4 PM, check-out 10 AM
Office
6022 W Dune Hollow Rd, Glen Arbor, MI 49636
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