Nanaimo, British Columbia
2 bedroom cozy space close to hiking, Westwood Lake, Benson Regional Park (mtn biking), the beach, and family-friendly activities. Complete with a full kitchen, full bathroom, gas fireplace, and friendly goats to visit with.
You'll love our place because of the large relaxing yard, and the coziness. Great for couples, business travellers, adventurers, mountain bikers, hikers and families (with kids).
Hosts live above the suite and we are an active family…expect some noise and we do our best to be settled by 10pm.
Standard booking is for two guests, additional fee above 2 persons. One queen bed in each room. There is a pet fee per pet (dogs only). **There is an $45 additional charge per dog per booking MAX SIZE of 75 lbs or 32.0 kilos per dog.
If you are used to city life, on a clear night, you will see more stars than you thought possible. You can work quietly or head out for an amazing cup of nature. Do you want a gentle interaction with a friendly goat Then, Jett is comfortably secured in the yard.
The Nanaimo Aquatic Centre and Nanaimo Ice Rink are within a 5-minute drive; great if you are here for a tournament or you are wanting a workout.
This reservation has a Flexible cancellation policy - refunds will be issued up to 30 days prior to the check-in date.
A 100% refund is provided for travellers cancelling at least 30 days before check-in. A 50% refund is provided for travellers cancelling from 14 to 29 days before check-in. No refunds are provided for travellers cancelling less than 14 days prior to check-in. VRBOBBooking Fees are refundable if you cancel within 48 hours of placing your booking request.
Our house rules no smoking, no parties or events, pets permitted (dogs only). Severe allergies to cats.
We are grateful to have you consider staying with us. We are a thriving family of four (plus an awesome dog and one goat rip Bennie) and live upstairs from the available suite that walks out onto the back acre. We are readily available to answer questions or take care of reasonable requests.
We have a couple of items that are important to us. The use of loud profanity and illegal drugs will not be tolerated.
Its great if you want peace and quite. feel ay home atmosphere
Thomas and family very welcoming.The area very quiet and great back yard.Condo well supplied.Thanks again for looking after our little dog.
The space, location, and outdoors environment were exactly as represented, and when we couldn’t find a bread knife, our hosts got us one, along with some other useful utensils, the same day. We’re completely happy with our stay there, love the area, and would like to stay again in future.
Maggie ( our dog) gave 3 paws up! Best place we’ve stayed in Nanaimo. Spacious and very clean. Thank you Thomas!
The website photos undersell this property. It has everything you would want and more. A great well equipped kitchen, a lovely lounge area, two double bedrooms and a nice bathroom. There is a nice sitting area at the back and garden. The hosts are just so welcoming and helpful and whilst they live in the house above they leave you to get on with things unless you need help about local points of interest or facilities. Direct road takes you to Nanaimo harbour and quite close to the main Route 19. Loved our stay and happy to recommend.
Very nice people and a comfortable suite. The issue was the constant noise upstairs. We are an older couple and really needed a quiet place for a long-awaited vacation. Maybe it was on us to find a place that doesn't have children upstairs. Sorry about this but it is in the best interest for the owners to be aware of this issue.
We were in Nanaimo to visit family and take in the sites for a week. The location worked well for us. 5-10 minutes in any direction covered everything we anticipated visiting in the Nanaimo area. The neighborhood has decent sidewalks and a short-cut trail to a local lake that has a popular walking trail leading around the entire lake, with a lakefront park. A perfect, mostly-level, 4-mile daily walk to exercise the dog. It was a perfect place for my service dog, sister and myself to stay. Ground-level entrance to the unit made mobility issues non-existent. The fenced huge backyard with a friendly dog and two goats made the place family friendly. Thomas was very good with communications with us and our trip went perfectly as planned.
Thomas made everything easy for us and we enjoyed the outdoor space and being greeted in the morning by Benny and Jet. :)
Property was not quite as we expected. Although it was very clean inside and we had no disturbances from the owners living upstairs one still had the feeling of living in someone’s basement. A few suggestions for improvement would be adding plug in air fresheners to mask the “basement” smell and updating the throw rugs, furnishings and supplies - particularly those that were obviously used for 20+ years somewhere else and then thrown downstairs into the suite. Using the old toaster and some of the kitchen utensils was a bit gross. Otherwise very clean and an enjoyable stay.
Very clean, great location and a nice big yard for our dog to play.
Would definitely stay again!
Home is on acreage within Nanaimo. Quiet street. Friendly goats and dog.
Lovely, quiet, semi-rural spot with nice feeling. Perfect location for my purpose (close to Westwood Lake and Bethlehem Retreat Centre). Clean, cozy bottom floor of house with fairly new fittings/finishing.
The hosts are very friendly, helpful and laid-back. Having their dog and 2 goats in the back yard, also to pet and play, was awesome. We also loved that the house was outside the town area, with wildlife all around (birds of prey in the air, wild deer in the neighbours garden, hummingbirds feeding of the plants near the house), but also very easy to reach from highway 1 and 19. The house itself is well equipped, has comfortable beds and was very nice to stay in. On our more relaxed days we were happy to be able to watch lots of movies (Netflix, Disney, Prime).
We love place and owner was great and friendly
We loved the idea of backyard goats and Bennie and Jet were indeed lovely neighbours! Our experience here was peaceful and relaxing. Comfortable furniture, nice extras (tea, coffee, hot chocolate, popcorn, TV with streaming services available), and great communication with hosts. Very spacious for three adults. Quiet and safe neighbourhood but near Nanaimo and other destinations.
Very nice experience! We got everything we need in the house. The neighborhood was very quiet. The dog was very friendly.
Its a very tidy nice well appointed 2 bedroom unit. Nice quiet location with rural feel. I could see the goats but never had the time to go look closer at them. If this was a 2 bedroom hotel unit in town it would be over 300 a night easy. Quick email communication with the owner. I'm a private person so I never met him but was impressed by the emails. I'm so glad I stumbled upon the listing because staying in a motel on a main road would have driven my anxiety through the roof. I never knew anything other than motels existed so I'm happy I found this listing. Highly recommend it. Cheers.