Breakfast until 10:30, and why it stops there
What is on the breakfast table, what the kitchen makes to order and how to get a tray in your room (sample).
A small hotel on the bay, with a garden down to the water
Larkspur Bay Hotel (sample) has 22 rooms on four floors. The sea side looks over the bay; the garden side looks over the lawns and the pool. Tell us your dates and which side you like.
Check-in from 15:00, check-out by 11:00. Breakfast is included in every rate.
Floor
Sea side
Garden side
4
401
403
404
405
3
301
302
303
304
305
306
2
201
202
203
204
205
206
1
101
102
103
104
105
106
Classic room 104–106, 204–206, 304–306, 404
Garden room 101–103
Sea view room 201–203, 301–303, 403
Suite 401, 405
Step-free 104
The key board behind our front desk: floor 4 at the top, the sea on the left. The ringed key is the step-free room.
Four kinds of room
Every room has its own bathroom, a window that opens and a bed made with linen sheets. What changes is the size, the bed and the side of the house.
24 m², king bed or two singles. Sea side, floors 2 to 4, balcony.
7 rooms: 201–203, 301–303, 403
From $235 a night
18 m², queen bed, 160 cm wide. Garden side, floors 1 to 4.
10 rooms: 104–106, 204–206, 304–306, 404
From $165 a night
24 m², king bed, 180 cm wide. Ground floor, sea side, own terrace.
3 rooms: 101–103
From $210 a night
42 m², king bed and a sitting room. Floor 4, one on each side.
2 rooms: 401, 405
From $380 a night
Example prices per room per night, breakfast for two included.
Your stay, from arrival to the last breakfast
The times that matter, and what is waiting in every room.
Times
Check-in
Earlier if the room is ready; leave your bags any time
From 15:00
Check-out
Late check-out to 13:00 on request, $30
By 11:00
Breakfast
In the garden room, or on the terrace in summer
7:30–10:30
Pool
Heated from May to September
8:00–20:00
Spa
Book treatments at the desk
10:00–19:00
Front desk
Someone is always there
Day and night
In every room
- Linen sheets, wool blankets and a choice of pillows
- A shower with good pressure; baths in the suites and sea view rooms
- Kettle, local tea and ground coffee
- Wi-Fi that reaches the garden
- Blackout curtains and windows that open
- Beach towels and a bag to carry them
Times and facilities (sample).
Pool, spa and the path to the beach
Two acres of garden between the house and the dunes. Everything is for hotel guests only.
The garden pool
8:00–20:00, May to September
Twenty metres, heated, with loungers on the lawn and towels at the pool house. Quiet lengths before 9:00.
The spa
10:00–19:00, every day
Two treatment rooms, a sauna and a steam room. Massages and facials from 30 minutes; book at the front desk.
The beach
On foot through the dunes from the garden gate
6 minutes
Bicycles
Eight bikes to borrow, helmets at the desk
Free
Boat trips
Seal trips on calm days, April to October
From the harbour
Facilities and times (sample).
The terrace restaurant
Fish from the harbour boats, vegetables from the walled garden and a short menu that changes with them. Guests and their friends are welcome; book a table at the desk.
Breakfast
7:30–10:30
Lunch on the terrace
12:30–14:30
Dinner
18:30–21:30
The bar
16:00 to midnight
Opening times (sample).
Rates by season
One price per room per night, breakfast for two included. Two nights at least on Fridays and Saturdays in July and August.
Room
Low
Nov to Mar
Mid
Apr to Jun, Sep, Oct
High
Jul and Aug
Classic room
$165
$195
$240
Garden room
$210
$245
$295
Sea view room
$235
$275
$330
Suite
$380
$440
$520
Example prices. Children under 12 stay free on a sofa bed in the suites.
From the guest book
“We asked for the same room as last year and the key was waiting on the hook with a note: welcome back.”
Sample guest, room 302
“Breakfast on the terrace, the beach by ten, the pool after lunch. We did not move the car for four days.”
Sample guest, Garden room
Bay notes
The path to the beach, and when to take it
Six minutes through the dunes from the garden gate, and the tide times that make the difference (sample).
A winter afternoon in the spa
Why the quietest months are the best time for the sauna, a massage and a walk on an empty beach (sample).
Getting here
Larkspur Bay Hotel, 2 Shore Road, Springfield (sample). At the end of the coast road, where the dunes begin.
By train
Taxi from Springfield station, or we collect you
8 minutes
By car
18 spaces behind the house, $12 a night
Parking
From the airport
Transfer on request, $45 each way
40 minutes
Directions (sample). (555) 014-3300, [email protected]
Ask about your dates
Send a stay enquiry or call the front desk. We reply within a few hours with the rooms free on your dates and the price for your stay (sample).