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Nine rooms and a long breakfast, looked after lightly.
Quiet rooms, long mornings.
Nine rooms, one good porch. Fewer rooms, better mornings.
Open May to October. Two-night minimum in season.
Nine rooms and one patient staircase.
Where you’ll sleep. Concept, not to scale.
A room with a view of the harbor, and no hurry to leave it.
Ground floor, by the breakfast room.
Ground floor, a door onto the hall.
Queen bed. Door to the garden. Bay light until noon.
Upstairs, next to the closet with the towels.
Upstairs, under the roof.
Upstairs, at the back of the landing.
The top of the patient staircase.
The one with two windows.
Per night, two guests. Breakfast included. Two-night minimum in season. Dogs welcome. Muddy paws, less so.
Fewer rooms, better mornings.
kettle on.
Two rockers, one view of the street, no agenda. Most sills have a jar of something blooming. Boards to the water, coffee in hand, back by breakfast.
Provincetown and Cape Cod postcards, Tichnor Bros. and the Mayflower Sales Co., about 1930–1945. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Breakfast, looked after.
8 to 10:30
Provincetown Harbor from the Pilgrim Monument, postcard, about 1930–1945. Public domain.
From the kitchen
Two eggs, done slowly. Toast cut however you like, within reason.
Crisp at the edges, a fried egg on top. Nobody will hurry you.
Thick slices, warm berries, maple. The long breakfast’s best argument.
From the oven
Out at eight. Gone by nine, usually.
Salted butter, the good marmalade.
To drink
Refilled without asking.
The honesty bar, from six
Pour your own, write it in the book. We trust you, and we count.
Whatever the fridge suggests. It is usually right.
For evenings the bay turns grey.
A lime, if we remembered.
Something small
Enough for two, if you are generous.
Honesty applies.
Settle at checkout. The kettle is yours until midnight.
Good to know.
- Open May to October.
- Two-night minimum in season.
- Booking opens February 1.
- Breakfast 8 to 10:30.
Rates, plainly.
| Room | Shoulder | Summer |
|---|---|---|
| Attic room | $215 | $290 |
| Harbor room | $260 | $340 |
| Garden Room | $290 | $410 |
Per night, two guests. Breakfast included. Sample rates.
Arriving late?
Tell us by four and we leave the porch light on and the key on its hook.
Beach things?
Towels, chairs and an umbrella live in the hall closet. The sand stays outside.
Quiet hours?
Nine at night to eight in the morning. The porch is exempt if the conversation is good.
Dogs welcome.
Muddy paws, less so. Two per room. Towels are on us.
Downstairs from eight.
Coffee from seven, if you knock gently.
The sea, any evening (filmed at Zelenogradsk, Alexander Grebenkov, CC BY 3.0). Linnets, from Nederlandsche vogelen by Nozeman and Sepp, public domain.
Booking opens February 1.
Linnet House
Provincetown, MA
| Breakfast | 8 to 10:30 |
| Honesty bar | from six |
| Season | May to October |
Provincetown and its harbour, US Geological Survey, 1887. Public domain.