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Boutique, Historic

Hastings House Country House Hotel

A Sussex-style manor house and its farm buildings on Ganges Harbour, run as a small country-house hotel with a celebrated kitchen garden and dining room. The reason to stay overnight on Salt Spring rather than day-trip.

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Hastings House is the Gulf Islands' one grand address: a 1940 manor built to look older, with rooms in the house, the barn and the cottages, gardens down to the harbour, and a restaurant that draws on the estate's own orchard and the island's farms. Ganges village and the Saturday market are a five-minute walk.

It is a splurge and a slow one; come for two nights, take the ferry from Swartz Bay as a foot passenger, and let the island do the rest.

Ideal for

The water

On Ganges Harbour, Salt Spring Island, a short walk from the village and the Saturday market.

Key facilities

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Checked 6 Sept 2026

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