Salt Cottages To Open In Bar Harbor, Maine

A keep in a basic seaside trip cottage has lengthy been a part of a summer season journey to Maine. Now there’s a revamped model of these previous time cottage colonies referred to as Salt Cottages that dispenses with knotty pine and darkish interiors and as a substitute brings a excessive design and a glamping sensibility to this custom. Enviably located on Mount Desert Island, simply exterior of Bar Harbor and near Acadia Nationwide Park, Salt Cottages would be the sister property to the historic and not too long ago reimagined Claremont Lodge in close by Southwest Harbor, which I profiled final yr in Forbes.

The previous Colony Cottages, the cottages and adjoining motor lodge had been purchased final yr by developer and hotelier Tim Harrington, proprietor of The Claremont, The Lincoln Lodge, The Wanderer Cottages, and Founding Associate of Kennebunkport Resort Assortment, which incorporates The Tides Seashore Membership, Cape Arundel Inn & Resort, and Hidden Pond Resort in Kennebunkport. His enterprise accomplice is Debbie Lennon, Chief Working Officer of Atlantic Hospitality.

“Following the profitable debut of the reimagined Claremont Lodge, we’re excited to welcome visitors to our new enterprise, a vintage-inspired getaway centrally positioned steps away from Acadia Nationwide Park and downtown Bar Harbor,” says Harrington. “Salt Cottages will deliver its nostalgic hospitality method to the vacation spot’s wealthy heritage and encourage households, {couples}, and adventurers to have a good time and immerse themselves into the pure great thing about the nice outdoor.”

Salt Cottages, which is scheduled to open its doorways this summer season on the Fourth of July weekend, is a nostalgia-laden model of a Maine coastal getaway, upgraded for twenty first century vacationers looking for good design and upgraded facilities. Set on a hillside overlooking Hull’s Cove, the resort incorporates a complete of 40 lodging, together with 30 stand-alone cottages and 10 motor lodge rooms. It’s aimed toward each {couples} and households.

The interiors are white and vivid. Vaulted ceilings have been painted blue, and the inside designers went with impartial tones and bamboo and rattan textures. The beds have white metallic headboards, white sheets and ornamental coloured pillows. There are mushy blue coloured aspect tables, sourced domestically from Maine Woodworks, are located alongside an accent wall together with nautical vintage artwork and extensive wicker pendants. The vintage-styled fixtures and furnishings items used all through had been designed by Schoolhouse Electrical, Rejuvenation, and Sazerac Stitches. They’re positioned amongst pure bamboo and rattan textures. Every cottage incorporates a kitchenette, a porch, ocean views and an out of doors backyard patio.

The facilities of Salt Cottages embrace an out of doors pool overlooking Frenchman Bay, two scorching tubs, stone hearth pits, a recreation room outfitted with basic board and card video games, playground, and a micro-store boutique with bespoke Maine memorabilia. There will probably be a full-service snack bar referred to as Picnic that evokes the 1950’s, with grab-and-go choices for breakfast and lunch that may be loved on the patio seating overlooking the ocean. It is going to additionally characteristic an old-time ice cream window.

Downtown Bar Harbor, with its eating places, sights, eating places, and points of interest is a couple of minutes’ drive away, as is the Hull’s Cove entrance to Acadia Nationwide Park. In brief, it guarantees to be an excellent base for exploring way more of the Maine coast.

Opening charges at Salt Cottages begin at $399 for a king motor lodge visitor room, and stand-alone cottages begin at $525. The lodge is at present accepting bookings for stays by way of reservations@saltcottagesbarharbor.com. For added info, go to saltcottagesbarharbor.com.