42.63° N · Allegan County
Reserving a Saugatuck bluff-top motel stay above Lake Michigan
From, room for two$8903 nights · from $450 per personNot included: taxes, meals and park entry.
This Saugatuck bluff-top motel stay puts you in a motel resort on top of a bluff over Lake Michigan, with the lake shore below and two village centers across the river. Three nights is the plan; the office checks with the resort for an open room on your nights and its nightly charge, then sends a single quote you can read at your own pace.
Saugatuck is the closest stay to our office on the catalog ladder, only a little north of Southfield on the map, though the road runs west across the state. It suits a midweek three-night stay from May to October. You pay the resort at its own desk, and the office charges you nothing for planning or for the reservation.
Oval Beach and the river mouth dune
The picture at the top shows the evening view this stay is built around: Lake Michigan surf on pale sand, under a wooded dune bluff, with dune grass in front. That shoreline sits right below the lodging. Across the Kalamazoo River are the village centers of Douglas and Saugatuck.
Oval Beach is a public Lake Michigan beach backed by dunes, and Mount Baldhead, a dune above the river mouth, has a stair climb to the top. Saugatuck Dunes State Park has trails that wind through wooded dunes down to the lake.
| Town | Saugatuck, Allegan County |
|---|---|
| Lodging | Lake Michigan bluff-top motel resort |
| Latitude | 42.63° N |
| North of the office | 9 miles due north |
| Nights | 3 |
| Season planned | May to October |
| Drive from Southfield | 177 road miles, about 3 hr 14 min without stops |
| Working nightly rate | from $295 a night for a room for two (September 2026) |
Motel resort rooms up on the bluff
This is a motel resort on top of a bluff above Lake Michigan, and it keeps a front desk of its own, where guests check in and settle the bill. The picture beside shows a lodging of this kind. You learn which resort it is from the written quote, since this website leaves the name out. The resort quotes its rates for one or two persons, and the room for two at its rate for the month is what sits inside the figure.
Three September nights at the resort's own rate
Two people sharing the room for 3 nights start from $890, or from $450 per person. It rests on a working nightly rate that starts from $295 for September 2026, taken from the resort's own website. No mandatory nightly fee is listed, so the figure is simply the room at that rate for those nights, rounded up.
Left out of that number: Michigan's 6% use tax plus whatever room tax the county levies, the higher price the resort puts on Friday and Saturday nights, fuel and meals, and activities and park entry. Once the resort answers, your real nightly rate takes the place of the September working rate. More detail sits on our pricing page.
Inside this total
- The room for two for 3 nights at the lodging's rate for the month
- Rates for 1 or 2 persons, as the resort quotes them
Left for you to pay on the road
- Michigan's 6% use tax and any county room tax
- Friday and Saturday nights, which the resort prices higher
- Fuel and meals
- Activities and park entry
Weekend nights and summer minimums
May to October is the Saugatuck season for this stay, since the resort takes reservations only in those months; November to April stays off the calendar. In the peak weeks from late June to mid August the resort asks for a minimum of 3 or 4 nights, and weekend nights cost more than the September working rate, so a midweek stay in late spring or early fall comes closest to the figure.
Settled once the resort answers us
On paper you get the resort's name, a description of your room, its rate on the nights you asked about, a room total, which taxes the resort adds at checkout, and the cancellation terms it sets itself. Read it, request other dates, or simply stop there. Nothing is reserved until you write back yes; only then do we ask the resort to put the room under your name.
West across the state to the lakeshore
Saugatuck lies 177 road miles west of our Southfield office; a computed route with no stops puts it at about 3 hours 14 minutes, and a trip with breaks along the way runs past that. On the latitude ruler the lodging sits at 42.63 degrees north, just 9 miles north of the office in a straight north and south line, in the 42 degree band and below the 45th parallel.
Ask for Saugatuck in September
Saugatuck requests come in through the form: send the month, the number of nights and how many adults, and a quote for this lakeshore stay reaches you inside four phone hours.
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