Bar Harbor · Hotel shortlist
The best hotels near Bar Harbour
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These are my five favourites in Bar Harbor, out of the 56 that qualified. I read what other travellers scored them before I picked, so the order follows the guests, 5 down to 4.7.
All five are inside 500 m of Bar Harbour, so you can walk it.
Highest rated of the five
Sand Bar Cottage
★★★★★5 from 162 reviews
Sand Bar Cottage comes out on top of this list, and not narrowly: 5 from 162 guest reviews is a score that holds up at that volume, which is the whole test here. A perfect ten from nine people does not beat it.
It is a 4 star property and found under poi.
56 hotels in Bar Harbor qualified for this list and five made it. Bar Harbor Inn & Spa is the one I would book if the first is full.
All five, ranked
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1
Sand Bar Cottage
★★★★★5 from 162 reviews
500 m from Bar Harbour, about a 6 minute walk
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2Bar Harbor Inn & Spa
★★★★★4.7 from 1,057 reviews
400 m from Bar Harbour, about a 5 minute walk
- Pool
- Spa
- Gym
- Restaurant
- Bar
- Parking
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3The Pathmaker Hotel
★★★★★4.9 from 243 reviews
500 m from Bar Harbour, about a 6 minute walk
- Restaurant
- Parking
- Air conditioning
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4Ivy Manor Inn - Village Center
★★★★★4.8 from 375 reviews
under 200 m from Bar Harbour
- Bar
- Parking
- Air conditioning
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5Bass Cottage Inn
★★★★★4.9 from 135 reviews
300 m from Bar Harbour, about a 4 minute walk
- Parking
- Air conditioning
- Accessible
How this list was put together
56 Bar Harbor hotels qualify for this list. We ranked them on guest rating first and on how close they are to Bar Harbour second, then took the top five.
Two things decide these lists. The first is my own time in the city: every hotel on this page is one I have stayed in, walked into and looked at, or gone back to check. That is where the shortlist starts, and it is why some well reviewed places are not on it.
The second is the numbers, and those are what set the order. The rating and review count come from the big travel sites, pooled through Google, so a score here reflects Expedia, Booking, Hotels.com and the rest together rather than any one of them. I also read the review breakdown by topic, which is where the figures on service, breakfast and location come from. Hotels with fewer than forty reviews are left out altogether, because a rating that thin is not a rating. No more than two come from one neighbourhood.
What I do not do is move anyone up the order. The ranking is the guest score, highest first, and nobody pays to be on the list.
Distances are straight lines from published coordinates, so the real walk is a little longer. Amenities are as recorded by Google Hotels and can change without notice. Rates are an indicative nightly figure for a midweek autumn stay, not a quote. Check the booking page before you commit.
Yuna Park Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong
Negotiated a fully remote contract and works a month at a time from a different city on home-office hours. Eleven cities in two years. Likes the routine in new places more than sightseeing.
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