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Oak Bluffs hotels and inns one by one, from the ferry pier to the Campground and the Inkwell: rooms, breakfast, parking, pets and season as each property states them, with rates by band and how to book for 2027.
Oak Bluffs has more walk-everywhere places to sleep than any other town on Martha's Vineyard, and in summer the ferry lands in the middle of them. The Surfside is a block from the pier, Summercamp faces the harbor, the Oak Bluffs Inn and the Tivoli Inn are up Circuit Avenue, and the bed and breakfasts on the Campground side are a few minutes further. Nothing here needs a car, which matters on an island where a car ferry slot in August is the hardest booking of the trip.
This guide goes through the town's hotels and inns one by one, with what each property's own website said when we read it on November 1, 2026: address, rooms, breakfast, parking, pets and whatever it says about the season. Rate bands come from our island-wide lodging research. For the choice between towns, our Oak Bluffs vs Edgartown post makes the case for each; for the whole island, start with the where-to-stay guide.
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In summer the Steamship Authority, the Island Queen and Hy-Line all land at the Oak Bluffs pier, and the first places to stay are a block or two from the gangway. These four are the ones to look at if you are arriving on foot with luggage.
The walk out to the Oak Bluffs ferry pier in June 2022, where the seasonal ferries tie up.
The Surfside Hotel at 7 Oak Bluffs Avenue is the closest, family-owned and operated since 1987, with unassigned guest parking on site and pets welcome for a small nightly fee. Our Oak Bluffs guide had it at about 100 yards from the dock and the parking at $30 a night in season when we checked in the summer. The Madison Inn at 18 Kennebec Avenue calls itself a three-minute walk from the ferry; it keeps a complimentary coffee and snack bar going all day, and its site was already taking bookings for August 2027 when we looked. The Morgan Hotel at 9 David Healey Way is a 14-room hotel on a side street with a 24-hour pantry, a five-minute walk from the Steamship terminal by its own reckoning, and part of the same small group as the Edgar and the Franklin in Edgartown. The Dockside Inn at 9 Circuit Avenue Extension sits right on the harbor, with coffee and snacks for guests and the restaurants and bars at its door.
The Madison Inn at 18 Kennebec Avenue, hydrangeas along the front, three minutes on foot from the ferry.
The porch of the Morgan Hotel on an Oak Bluffs side street, with the water at the end of the road.
Dockside restaurants and crowds around Oak Bluffs harbor on a summer evening.
Summercamp at 70 Lake Avenue is the big one: 95 rooms in a hotel built in 1879 as the Wesley, now run by Lark Hotels with a summer-camp theme, hanging chairs in the lobby and the harbor through the windows. It has no off-street lot of its own, but 17 guaranteed parking spots at $50 a night, which you reserve by calling; street parking is subject to the town's rules. Two king rooms take dogs under 70 pounds at $50 per dog per day. Peak rates ran roughly $400 to $660 in our summer check. Illumination Night in August is the week to be here, when the porches hang with lanterns.
The Summercamp hotel on Lake Avenue faces the harbor walkway and the slips, a short walk from Circuit Avenue.
The lobby at Summercamp with its hanging chairs and the harbor through the windows.
Summercamp dressed for Illumination week, lanterns strung under the 1879 porches.
A few doors along at 42 Lake Avenue, the Attleboro House is an 1874 guest house with ten simple rooms over the harbor and no breakfast; Highlands General is a short walk for coffee. It was open for the 2026 season when we listed it in our Oak Bluffs guide, but its website did not load on November 1, so call before you count on it.
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Walk up Circuit Avenue past the shops and the street goes quiet. The Oak Bluffs Inn at 64 Circuit Avenue is a ten-room Victorian from 1870 with a pink lookout tower, run by the same innkeepers for more than two decades. Continental breakfast is served from May 1 to October 31, with gluten-free options, there are complimentary snacks and drinks, and off-street parking is free, which is rare in this town. The inn is plain about what it does not have: no ADA-accessible rooms, no ramps or elevator, and every room is reached by stairs and a gravel walkway.
The Oak Bluffs Inn, an 1870 Victorian with a pink tower on upper Circuit Avenue.
The Oak Bluffs Inn sign on the porch, hydrangeas in bloom along the walk.
The Oak Bluffs Inn’s lookout tower marks the quiet top end of Circuit Avenue.
Further up at 125 Circuit Avenue, the Tivoli Inn has six bedrooms in a restored late-1800s gingerbread house. Its site promises reasonable rates and says little else, so the booking link is the place to check dates.
The streets between Circuit Avenue and the water, around Ocean Park and the Camp Meeting Association grounds, are the bed-and-breakfast side of town. The Pequot Hotel at 19 Pequot Avenue has 32 rooms across three buildings on a quiet street near the Inkwell, a daily continental breakfast, and on Fridays complimentary wine and cheese with live music. It has been welcoming guests for more than 75 years. Aggregator rates ran roughly $189 to $557 by season when we checked in the summer.
The houses along the far side of Ocean Park, seen across the lawn in June 2022.
Narragansett House at 46 Narragansett Avenue is an 1870 gingerbread Victorian with a dozen rooms, run by the family that took it over in 2018. Breakfast is a hot drink, fresh-baked goods and juice, eaten in the garden or on the porch. The website lists rates by room rather than by season, from $175 to $600 a night depending on the room, the bed, the amenities and demand. A king studio with a kitchenette is the top of the range.
A lane on the harbor side of the Campground: pink and green trim on the left, sage green with a double porch and rockers on the right, and the mansard roof of Summercamp, the 1879 hotel on Lake Avenue, at the end.
A row of cottage porches facing a shared lawn in the Campground, in spring.
The quietest beds in Oak Bluffs are inside the Campground itself. The Martha's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association rents four small apartments by the week, Saturday to Saturday, from June through mid-September: three one-bedroom units at $1,750 to $2,100 a week and a four-bedroom, two-bath unit at $3,500 to $4,025. Requests for the 2027 season opened on October 1, 2026, first come first served, through the form at mvcma.org. Our gingerbread cottages walk shows what you would wake up to.
The Inkwell Beach House at 83 Seaview Avenue is a 12-room guest house directly across the road from Inkwell Beach, the sister property of Narragansett House. A complimentary continental breakfast of pastries, cereal and hot drinks is served from 8 to 10 each morning, and the house is open year round, with whole-house winter rentals by arrangement. Older booking pages still call it Isabelle's Beach House; that was the name before the sale.
The Inkwell’s lifeguard stand on a clear summer day, seen from the benches above the beach.
Cycling Sea View Avenue past the Sea View on a calm summer day, with cars parked along the water as far as you can see.
Out past Farm Pond, toward the State Beach path, the Island Inn at 30 Island Inn Road is the town's resort-style option: studios, one- and two-bedroom suites and townhouses, most with a kitchen or kitchenette, around a heated outdoor pool, tennis courts and a grilling area, with pet-friendly units. Its website calls it a year-round resort, while a third-party venue listing says it closes to guests from mid-November to mid-April, so ask directly before booking a winter stay. When we looked it was running a sale of 25 percent off two-night Sunday-to-Thursday stays arriving by June 30. For families who want a pool and a fridge, this is the one; our family guide has the rest of the plan.
In August a mid-range room in Oak Bluffs runs about $200 to $400 a night, against $250 to $450 in Edgartown, and the Victorian inns include breakfast where the hotels do not. Massachusetts room tax plus the local options adds about 11.7 percent, so a $300 room bills closer to $335. Parking is the hidden cost: free at the Oak Bluffs Inn, on site at the Surfside, $50 a night and by reservation at Summercamp, and unstated at most of the smaller inns, which usually means the street.
The street along the Oak Bluffs harbor in August: the green bike lane, Big Dipper and the bike shops, people sitting out on the porches. An evening walk here is the island’s easiest way to be among people without needing a plan.
The season follows the boats. In 2026 the Steamship served Oak Bluffs from May 14 to October 22, the Island Queen from May 22 to October 12 and Hy-Line from May 2 to October 25; from October 23 until January 5 every Steamship crossing uses Vineyard Haven, and the fare-free Route 13 bus brings you the last few miles. Of the places above, only the Inkwell Beach House states on its site that it is open year round, and the Island Inn calls itself a year-round resort with the caveat above. The others do not state a season, so for a visit between November and April, write or call first. Our winter guide covers what the town is like then.
The Oak Bluffs terminal in the winter of 2026, snow banked along the empty lot. It's a seasonal terminal: from October 23 every Steamship boat uses Vineyard Haven until Oak Bluffs opens again in the spring.
Booking direct usually gets the best rate and the most flexible terms, and most of these inns are small enough to answer an email the same day. Summer 2027 is already on sale at some of them: the Madison Inn was taking August 2027 bookings on November 1, and the Campground apartments opened their 2027 requests in October. Two names to ignore: the Ocean View Hotel on East Chop was approved by the Martha's Vineyard Commission in 2026 but is a construction project, not a hotel you can book, and the Nashua House's website is no longer live, so we have left it out. One map-app trap: the Nobnocket Boutique Inn, which some lists file under Oak Bluffs, is in Vineyard Haven.
From mid-May to October the summer ferries land at the Oak Bluffs pier and the hotels above are on foot from there. The rest of the year you land in Vineyard Haven, three miles away, and take the fare-free VTA bus (Route 13) or a taxi; the ferry guide has every boat and the bus page the timetable. Once you are here, Circuit Avenue, the harbor, the Campground, Ocean Park and the town beaches are all within ten minutes on foot, and Edgartown is thirteen minutes on the same Route 13 bus. Our car-free guide covers the rest of the island.
Bus 116 on Route 13, paused at the Oak Bluffs ferry stop with the pier out the window. It came from Edgartown along Beach Road and carries on to Vineyard Haven; the sign on the pole says Route 13 buses to Vineyard Haven load on this side of the street.
The Campground side and the streets around Ocean Park. Anything within earshot of Circuit Avenue or the harbor is lively on summer weekends, with last call at the bars at 12:30. The Pequot, Narragansett House and the Inkwell Beach House are on the quiet side; the Dockside Inn and Summercamp are in the middle of it.
Usually. Mid-range rooms in August run about $200 to $400 here against $250 to $450 in Edgartown, and Edgartown's luxury tier starts higher; our Edgartown lodging guide lists its hotels and inns the same way. Oak Bluffs has more inns that include breakfast.
Yes, by the week. The Camp Meeting Association rents four apartments from June through mid-September, Saturday to Saturday, and takes requests for the following summer from October 1.
Not for Oak Bluffs. The summer ferries dock in town, everything in this guide is on foot, and the fare-free VTA buses reach the other towns and the beaches. If you bring one anyway, ask about parking when you book; only a few of these places have a lot.
The Inkwell Beach House says it is open year round. The Island Inn calls itself a year-round resort, but one venue listing has it closed from mid-November to mid-April, so confirm. The rest do not state a season on their sites; the Oak Bluffs Inn's breakfast runs May 1 to October 31, which is a fair hint. In winter, Vineyard Haven and Edgartown have more year-round rooms.
How we checked: we read each property's own website on November 1, 2026 (Surfside, Madison Inn, Morgan Hotel, Dockside Inn, Summercamp via Lark Hotels, Oak Bluffs Inn, Tivoli Inn, Pequot Hotel, Narragansett House, Inkwell Beach House, Island Inn) and quoted only what they state; the Attleboro House site did not load that day and the Nashua House domain is parked. Rate bands and the Attleboro and Pequot details are from our island-wide lodging research of August and September 2026, built from property sites and booking engines. Ferry dates are the Steamship Authority's, the Island Queen's and Hy-Line's 2026 schedules; the room tax figure is the state rate plus the island towns' local options.
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