Eden Street · Frenchman Bay Hillside · Four-Star · #4 in Bar Harbor
Bluenose Inn
The hillside Bar Harbor Collection flagship, the AAA Four Diamond holdout with the bay-view balconies, the gas fireplaces, and the Rose Garden dining room.
The hillside Bar Harbor Collection flagship, the AAA Four Diamond holdout with the bay-view balconies, the gas fireplaces, and the Rose Garden dining room.
“The hillside Bar Harbor Collection flagship, the AAA Four Diamond holdout with the bay-view balconies, the gas fireplaces, and the Rose Garden dining room.”
The Bluenose Inn occupies a five-acre hillside parcel at 90 Eden Street, the principal hotel artery running north from central Bar Harbor toward the Hulls Cove gate of Acadia National Park. The property is the flagship of the Bar Harbor Collection, the Lafayette Hotels portfolio that also includes the Wonder View Inn next door, and it has held the AAA Four Diamond designation continuously since 1996, the longest unbroken Four Diamond holdover in Bar Harbor.
The 97-room inventory splits across two distinct buildings on the same hillside. The Mizzentop holds 53 rooms in the four-story principal building, with the upper-floor king and two-queen categories delivering the property's signature private balcony and gas fireplace combination over Frenchman Bay. The Eden Building, the older wing, holds the remaining suite-format rooms in apartment-style configurations with full kitchens and the more dense furnishing style. Both buildings share a single guest-services desk and a single restaurant.
The Rose Garden Restaurant operates as the property's AAA Four Diamond fine-dining room (the only Four Diamond restaurant in Bar Harbor) under chef-driven service nightly through the May to October season. Breakfast service runs in the Great Room lounge with the live morning fire and the bay-view bay windows. The indoor swimming pool, fitness room, and the Stewman's Lobster Pound shuttle (Bluenose has the only direct concierge link to the Stewman's harborside table service) round out the amenity package.
The location is the deliberate trade-off. Bluenose sits a one-mile walk or a five-minute drive from central Bar Harbor (the village runs at the south end of Eden Street), which keeps the property quieter than the West Street waterfront block and removes the foot-traffic-and-cruise-ship noise from the in-room experience. The trade is that the village itself is not on foot for casual dinners; the shuttle service handles the run. For travellers prioritising the hillside-bay-view experience, the AAA Four Diamond dining, and the older-Bar-Harbor heritage feel without the central-village crowding, the Bluenose is the most credible address.
The Rose Garden Restaurant's AAA Four Diamond service is the only certified Four Diamond dining room in Bar Harbor, and it runs every night of the May-October season. The Mizzentop upper-floor king with the private balcony, the gas fireplace, and the Frenchman Bay panorama is the property's signature anniversary configuration.
The hillside setting away from the central-village foot traffic, the in-room gas fireplaces, the bay-view balconies, and the Rose Garden dining together build the most credible quiet-couple programme in Bar Harbor. The full-kitchen Eden Building suites handle longer honeymoon stays without the room-service dependency.
Eden Building suite-format rooms with full kitchens absorb multi-night family stays at lower per-night cost than central waterfront alternatives. The indoor pool runs year-round, the breakfast service is included, and the shuttle to the village relieves families from the central-village parking problem.
90 Eden Street
Bar Harbor, ME 04609
United States
Eden Street · Frenchman Bay Hillside
97 rooms across Mizzentop & Eden buildings
From $206 / night low season
Up to $479 / night peak season
Bar Harbor Collection (Lafayette Hotels)
Most rooms with private balcony & gas fireplace
Check-in: 4:00 PM
Check-out: 11:00 AM
AAA Four Diamond since 1996
Bar Harbor Collection (Lafayette Hotels)
Sister property: Wonder View Inn
97 rooms across Mizzentop & Eden buildings
Rose Garden Restaurant (AAA Four Diamond, May-Oct)
Indoor heated swimming pool
Fitness center
Gas fireplaces in most rooms
Private bay-view balconies
Full-kitchen suite categories (Eden Building)
Direct concierge link to Stewman's Lobster Pound
Shuttle to village center
Complimentary WiFi
From $206 per night low season, up to $479 peak. July and August require 4 to 6 month lead time; shoulder seasons (May-June, September-October) deliver the best rates and quietest village.
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