Sandbanks · Canford Cliffs · Branksome · Eight homes
Homes by the sea, looked after by the people who own them.
No agency, no call centre, no hidden fees. Eight houses we would stay in ourselves, with the keys handed over by someone who knows where the good beach is.
The collection
Eight homes. That is the whole list.
Sea view
Tidefall
from £
600
/ night
Sea from every bedroom, and a kitchen built for long dinners.
Sandbanks
·
8
guests
Walk to village
Harbourlight
from £
480
/ night
A tall Victorian villa turned quiet, with a first-floor balcony over the bay.
Canford Cliffs
·
6
guests
Step-free
The Saltings
from £
520
/ night
Single-storey, step-free, and about ten paces from the sand.
Sandbanks
·
6
guests
Couples
Sanderling
from £
340
/ night
A two-bedroom apartment with the best sunset on the harbour.
Canford Cliffs
·
4
guests
Harbour view
The Lookout
from £
410
/ night
Three floors of glass looking straight down the harbour mouth.
Lilliput
·
6
guests
Sleeps ten
Gull House
from £
820
/ night
Five bedrooms, one long table, and a garden that runs to the chine.
Branksome
·
10
guests
Two minutes to sand
Little Chine
from £
190
/ night
A one-bedroom hideaway under the pines, two minutes from the sand.
Branksome
·
2
guests
By the ferry
Ferryman's
from £
690
/ night
The old ferry cottage, rebuilt around the view of the boats.
Sandbanks
·
8
guests
How we do it
Owner-run, which changes everything.
01
The price is the price
Nightly rate, cleaning, done. No service fee appears at checkout, no damage waiver, no surprise on the last screen.
02
A person answers
You get a name and a mobile number, not a ticket. If the heating misbehaves at nine on a Sunday, we come round.
03
Honest photographs
Every picture on this site was taken in the house you will stay in, in daylight, without a wide lens doing the work.
Unedited, from the guest book
We booked three nights and stayed six. The house is exactly what the photos say it is, which is rarer than it should be.
Hannah & Tom
August 2026
Nobody warned us about the balcony. We ate every meal out there and got very little else done.
Priya
July 2026
Step-free was the whole point for my mum, and it was genuinely step-free — not 'one small step' step-free.
Robert and family
June 2026
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