Book direct with the owner
A cabin on the headland,
ten minutes from the light.
Two bedrooms, a wood stove that does most of the work, and a kitchen window facing straight out at the Atlantic. Booked here, more of the money stays in the cove.
- Sleeps 6
- 2 bedrooms
- 1 bathroom
- Wood stove
- Full kitchen
- Wi-Fi
- Parking for 2
- Dog-friendly
The cabin
Salt Kettle Cabin sits on four acres of headland at the end of a gravel lane, with nothing between the front step and the water but a stretch of juniper and a stone wall our grandfather built. It was a fishing premises before it was a cabin, and the front room is still the original stud and board, whitewashed.
Two bedrooms — a queen upstairs under the slope of the roof, two singles down. The pull-out in the front room sleeps two more if you have a crowd. One full bathroom with a proper shower and, more to the point, reliable hot water.
The wood stove heats the whole place and there is a full box of split birch inside the door, refilled between every stay. Electric baseboard in the bedrooms for the shoulder months. The kitchen has everything a real kitchen has, because guests here cook — the nearest restaurant is a twenty-minute drive and it closes at eight.
Wi-Fi reaches the front room and the kitchen. Mobile coverage is fine on the lane and patchy on the trail. Take that as a feature.
Getting here, and what's nearby
From St. John's on the Trans-Canada and Route 230, the last kilometre on gravel that any car can manage. Parking for two vehicles beside the shed.
Flying in, or coming by ferry? Pick your airport or ferry below for the drive to Bonavista. Exact directions to the cabin come with your booking confirmation.
The lighthouse trail head is a ten-minute walk up the lane. Puffins on the point through July and August, whales through the same window if the caplin are in. The community wharf is five minutes by car and someone is usually selling cod off the back of a truck on a Saturday morning.
Groceries and fuel are twenty minutes away in the next town. There is a bakery there that opens at seven and sells out by ten, and we would plan around that rather than around anything else.
House rules, briefly
No smoking indoors. One dog is welcome ($50 the stay); more than one, ring us first. Quiet after 11pm — sound carries across the cove further than you would believe. Check-in from 4pm, check-out by 11am, and we are flexible on both if the cabin is empty either side.
What's here
- ✓Wood stove — birch supplied
- ✓Full kitchen — oven, hob, fridge, freezer
- ✓Coffee — grinder, press, drip
- ✓Washer and dryer
- ✓Linen and towels — beds made
- ✓Wi-Fi — front room and kitchen
- ✓Wood-fired kettle barbecue
- ✓Deck and fire pit — wood included
- ✓Cot and high chair — ask
- ✓Parking for two — off the lane
- ✓Dog welcome — one, $50 the stay
- ✓Rain gear and boots — sizes in the porch
- ·No television — never has been one
- ·No dishwasher — sorry
- ·No air conditioning — you will not want it
- ·Not step-free — four steps to the door
How booking here works
We confirm every booking ourselves. That is deliberate.
This cabin is also listed on a big booking site, and the two calendars have to agree or somebody's long weekend gets ruined. So we do not let a computer decide on its own.
- You send a request. Pick your dates, tell us who's coming, and enter your card. The card is authorized, not charged — a hold, the same as a hotel takes on arrival.
- We check the cabin is genuinely free, against every calendar it is listed on, before we confirm.
- We confirm, and only then does the card get charged. We confirm as soon as we are able. If we cannot confirm, or have not answered within 72 hours, the hold is released on its own and you pay nothing.
It is slower than pressing a button on a big site. It is also the reason this cabin has never been sold twice.
A few weeks a year we hold back for direct guests only — usually the ones our regulars book anyway. Those show as Instant on the calendar and confirm on the spot, because there is nobody else who could be selling them.
Alma DwyerOwner · Salt Kettle Cove
Rates
| Season | Dates | Per night |
|---|---|---|
| High | 15 June – 14 September | $245 |
| Shoulder | 1 May – 14 June · 15 Sept – 31 Oct | $185 |
| Off | 1 November – 30 April | $155 |
Minimum two nights, three over the high season. The calendar prices every night for you as you pick.
| Added to the stay | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cleaning, once per stay | $95 |
| Guests 5 and 6, per person per night | $25 |
| Dog, once per stay | $50 |
| HST | 15% |
| Damage deposit | none |
Cancellations: 30 days or more before arrival, full refund. Seven to thirty days, half. Under seven days or a no-show, none. If we cancel, for any reason: everything back.
Check dates and request your stay
1 · Choose your nights
- Blocked
- Instant
- Request
Nights marked Request are not promised until we have checked them — that is why the calendar never uses the word "available". Nights marked Instant are held back for direct guests and confirm immediately.
Click your arrival night, then your departure day.
2 · Who is coming
3 · Your details
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Authorize a hold on your card
On the live version this is a Stripe hosted checkout on the owner's own account, set to authorize now, capture on confirmation. Here the fields do nothing at all — type into them or don't.
This button changes some text on this page and does nothing else.
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