Harbour Lights Guest House

Accommodation in East Point - Canada

Email Harbour Lights Guest House Reservations: bookcanada@madbookings.com

We offer a variety of hospitality services in a relaxing and inspirational setting. For travelers and bicyclists to eastern PEI, our bed and breakfast provides overnight lodgings with a hearty, farm-style breakfast. Our lobster dinners, fresh from the wharf, are a special option available during the May-June fishing season. Meals at Harbour Lights Guest House feature locally-grown, organic foods, and we can accommodate a variety of special dietary needs. Our bed & breakfast services are offered May-October. Our guest house also operates as a year-round artists' and writer's retreat. The solitude and beauty of our local beaches and countryside reward our working guests with the opportunity to disconnect from the stress and distractions of daily life.

A residency at our guest house enables artists or writers to re-explore the wellsprings of creativity while immersed in the natural rhythm of coastal life. We also provide lodgings to women and to yoga or religious practitioners who seek a quiet, contemplative setting for a weekend stay, or a more extended residency.

East-East Tea Arts, headquartered at Harbour Lights Guest House, offers Chinese-style gongfu tea tastings to train your palate and develop a connoisseurship in tea drinking. Experience tea as a meditative art.

Harbour Lights Guest House Accommodation

Harbour Lights Guest House offers two luxury suites for your stay. Both suites are located on our second floor. Please note that we are a smoke-free establishment, and guests with allergies will want to note that we have an Australian Shepherd, Kiana,who lives with us.

The East Suite
Our Asian art inspired East Suite consists of a very spacious bedroom with queen bed, an ensuite bath (shower only), and a sitting room/workspace with a daybed, desk and chairs. A private balcony accessed from the sitting room overlooks North Lake Harbour and the ocean. The entire suite has high-speed, wi-fi internet connection, and a refrigerator for guest use is available in the downstairs guest dining room.

The rates for our East Suite include a hearty, farm-style breakfast. Other meals are available for additional charges. We can accommodate vegetarian and other special diets, and we feature local PEI, organic foods whenever possible.

The West Suite
Our Inuit art inspired West Suite consists of a bedroom with a queen bed, an ensuite bath (tub and shower), and a sitting room or workspace with a daybed, desk, and chairs. A private balcony overlooks North Lake Harbour and ocean. The entire suite has high-speed, wi-fi internet connection, and a refrigerator for guest use is available in the downstairs guest dining room.

The rates for our East Suite include a hearty, farm-style breakfast. Other meals are available for additional charges. We can accommodate vegetarian and other special diets, and we feature local PEI, organic foods whenever possible.

Dining
You'll find all the comforts you long for--we pay attention to the details that make your stay memorable: freshly ironed bed linens, well-equipped baths, and immaculate rooms. we are very knowledgeable about our area and can help you discover places off the beaten track.

Former guests rave about our meals! We serve hearty, farm-style breakfasts and we can accommodate most special dietary needs. We use fresh, local, and organic foods in preparing our menus, whenever possible. And when we do use non-local items, we search out premium quality products, giving first preference to those with Atlantic Maritimes origins. Wolfhead Smokers supplies us with their cold-smoked salmon; we think it's one of the finest small smokers in the Atlantic Maritimes!

The coffee we serve comes from PEI's own, Caledonia Coffee Roasters; from the Edmonton-based gourmet varietal roaster, Transcend Coffee; and from the innovative Mid-Atlantic-based Keuka Lake Coffee Roasters. As for teas, we have more varieties of teas than you can sample in a weekend. Consider scheduling one of our Tea Tasting Sessions as part of your stay.

Additional meals may also be available, by prior arrangement. During May & June, lobster dinner packages are a special option. At other times of the year, we prepare fresh, local fish, beef, pork, or lamb entrees. Vegetarian meals are always available by request, and we can accommodate most restricted diets. Call or email us in advance to schedule a dinner during your stay with us. Be sure to check out our Special Packages, as we offer unique culinary meals as part of these weekend deals.

Please note that we are a smoke-free establishment. And as we have a dog of our own in residence, we regret that we cannot accept pets. Since we may have working writers or artists in residence during your stay, we also ask potential clients with young children to consider the adult nature of our environment when deciding whether our guest house would be a suitable fit for your family.

Artists' & Writers' Retreat
We welcome artists and writers seeking a quiet and inspirational work space. We've structured your living quarters and work area to maximize your ability to concentrate without the interruptions of daily life. Artists and writers residencies can be as short as a weekend or up to several months in duration. We currently have two residency spaces available year round: The East & West Studio/Suites. Each suite includes a spacious bedroom with private bath and a separate studio or writing area.

When you need a break to refresh yourself or clear your mind, you can sit and enjoy some tea or coffee on your private balcony overlooking North Lake Harbour. meals as well; we also offer laundry services for our artist and writer residents. Wireless internet is available throughout the guest house.

When planning a stay at Harbour Lights Guest House, you may want to consider that the months of July and August are peak months for tourists to Prince Edward Island, and you may occasionally be sharing public areas of the guest house with travelers to our area.

We encourage you to consider autumn or winter for a residency. Contrary to the popular stereotype of Canada, our Maritimes winters are generally no more severe than most areas of New England; in fact, we often have somewhat milder weather, overall, due to the warming affect of the place - Gulf Stream.

You'll find the winter landscape in eastern PEI is quite spectacular. Walking along North Lake Harbour beach and viewing the many beautiful colours of our frozen ocean shoreline is a memorable experience.If you are an artist or writer interested in conducting a workshop on Prince Edward Island, please contact us. We'd love to help you coordinate your session.

East East Tea Arts
East-East Tea Tastings @ Harbour Lights is headquartered at our guest house and offers guests and the general public an opportunity to sample and experience a wide range of premium quality, terroir teas. We offer workshop sessions and private tastings sessions for individuals and small groups.

Our specialty is demonstrating gongfu-style tea, a Chinese tea ceremony, popular with Chinese tea connoisseurs, that emphasizes the flavour, scent, and appearance of tea. It takes tea into the realm of the meditative arts. Join us for a relaxing cup of tea.

Drop by Harbour Lights Guest House to enjoy a pot of one of our terrior teas, along with a la carte dim sum or dessert items. Reservations are recommended. We also offer special weekend packages that include Chinese cuisine with a gongfu tea tasting session during spring and fall months.

About Us
We first traveled to Prince Edward Island in the early 1990s. One of our neighbors in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, had grown up in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and suggested that we might find PEI an interesting place to visit. On our first visit, we fell in love with the Island. We began making yearly visits and found that our love affair with this place never seemed to wane.

During each additional trip, we always seemed drawn to the eastern end of the Island, and we gradually began to dream about finding a place on the Island to call our own. Bruce longed for a quiet place to work and write on his many ongoing historical research projects, and I hoped to establish a retreat house for people involved in the creative arts--a place where working artists and writers could find a quiet space to let their creativity soar and come to fruition.

In 2003 our dream took shape and became reality. Our former Island hosts and now dear friends, Elora & Robert Rose, suggested that a house located near them in the area of North Lake Harbour might be the perfect location for our retreat centre. After viewing the property, we agreed.

Each year brings new, sometimes small, sometimes big changes, and Harbour Lights Guest House continues to evolve, but the quiet and beauty of our rural landscape remains constant. We invite you to come for a visit and let Harbour Lights Guest House's inspirational setting work its magic on you, too.

Driving Directions From Points West and South:
Follow Route 2 to Souris. Route 2 becomes Main St. in the town. Continue northeast on Main St. through town. Main St. becomes Rte. 16 (East Point Rd.) when you leave the town. Follow Rte. 16 north and make a left turn onto Route 16A/Elmira Rd.(approx. 17 km/10.5 mi.).

Follow Route 16A past the Elmira Railroad Station to a "T" in the road (approx. 1.5 km/.9 mi.). Turn left. We are the second house on your right side.Harbour Lights Guest House is 81 km/ 51 mi./approx. hr. 15 mins. from Charlottetown and 69 km/ 43 mi. /approx. hr. 45 mins. from the Wood Islands ferry terminal.GPS location: N46° 27.265 W-062° 4.931

Email Harbour Lights Guest House Reservations: bookcanada@madbookings.com