44.77° N · Grand Traverse County
Three nights reserved for you: a Traverse City bayfront hotel stay
From, room for two$2603 nights · from $130 per personNot included: taxes, lunches, dinners and park entry.
A Traverse City bayfront hotel stay puts West Grand Traverse Bay right at the door for three nights. For your dates the office finds a bayside hotel with a desk of its own, checks whether a room is open, and puts a single written quote in your hands to weigh before anything is settled.
Mornings start with the continental breakfast the hotel serves, and the rest of the day is yours: the paved trail along the shore, Front Street just west, and the orchard ridges of Old Mission Peninsula. You pay the office nothing for the planning, and you settle the room with the hotel at its own desk.
West Bay water and Front Street
The picture at the top shows the bay as it looks on a summer afternoon: clear turquoise water over pale sand, with wooded hills along the far shore. That is West Grand Traverse Bay, and the hotel sits right on it. A paved trail follows the shoreline, and downtown Front Street lies a short walk to the west.
For a longer outing, Old Mission Peninsula reaches north into the bay, with orchards and vineyards along its ridges and a lighthouse standing at its tip.
| Town | Traverse City, Grand Traverse County |
|---|---|
| Lodging | bayfront hotel |
| Latitude | 44.77° N |
| North of the office | 157 miles due north |
| Nights | 3 |
| Season planned | May to November |
| Drive from Southfield | 241 road miles, about 4 hr 39 min without stops |
| Working nightly rate | from $86 a night for a room for two (November 2026) |
Continental breakfast at a bayfront hotel
The lodging is a bayfront hotel with a front desk of its own; the picture beside this section shows a lodging of this kind. Registration and payment both happen at that desk. The hotel's name appears in your written quote and stays off this website. Inside the figure: the room for two for 3 nights at the hotel's rate for the month, and the continental breakfast each morning, as the hotel serves it.
Three nights with breakfast each morning
This stay starts from $260 for the room for two, or from $130 per person, for 3 nights. It is built on a working nightly rate of $86 for a room for two in November 2026, taken from a public travel website, and no mandatory nightly fee was listed there. The figure covers the room for those nights and the breakfast.
Left out of that number: fuel, lunches and dinners, park entry, plus Michigan's 6% use tax and whatever room tax the county charges. Once your dates are set, the bay hotel's actual nightly price takes the place of the $86 working rate, and it can come out higher or lower. How these figures are built is laid out on our pricing page.
Inside this total
- The room for two for 3 nights at the lodging's rate for the month
- Continental breakfast each morning, as the hotel serves it
Left for you to pay on the road
- Michigan's 6% use tax and any county room tax
- Fuel, lunches and dinners
- Park entry
- Summer nights, which run far higher
July at about four times November
May through November is the window the office plans for this bay stay. December to March the hotel keeps its doors open, yet those winter months sit outside the planning calendar. Summer nights run far higher than the working figure: in July the nightly rate is about four times the November rate, so a midsummer quote will read very differently from the figure above.
Quote lines for a bayfront room
Every bayfront quote lists the hotel by name, the room, your nights and the nightly price for your dates, then the room total, the taxes the hotel adds, and the hotel's cancellation terms. A written yes from you is what starts the reservation; until it arrives, the room stays unheld. With that yes in hand, the office asks the hotel to set the room aside under your name, and any card or deposit the hotel wants is settled directly between you and the hotel.
Northwest to Grand Traverse Bay
Grand Traverse Bay lies 241 road miles from the Southfield office, about 4 hr 39 min on the computed route with no stops; an actual trip with breaks runs longer than that. On the ruler the hotel sits at 44.77 degrees north, 157 miles straight north of the office, still below the 45th parallel.
Traverse City nights in writing
Send the month you have in mind, the number of nights and the number of adults through the request form. A written reply lands inside four phone hours, carrying a quote to read at your own pace before deciding.
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