Coveside Bed & Breakfast

Perfectly quiet, relaxing, and pleasant way to spend a weekend in Maine. The owners were very nice and very accommodating. It’s a great place to be able to ‘get away’. About 15min drive down winding roads to the nearest city. Rooms are full of natural sunlight, and breakfast cooked each morning is delicious.

Great place to stay. Free state park pass, which you should use. Probably the best pancakes I’ve ever had.

What a wonderful experience! Beautiful location, wonderful innkeepers, and a delicious breakfast. Coveside is a true gem! Highly recommend!

Lovely view, clean and attractive rooms, and extremely helpful owners. They have pretty much thought of everything to make the visit an enjoyable one. Only wish that they would serve breakfast until 9:30 am since we are on vacation mode. Wonderful stay and we will return!

My wife and I stayed at Coveside B&B for two nights and we had a great experience. The location is phenomenal, as the name suggests it’s right on a quiet cove with a great view. We brought kayaks and it’s an easy place to launch from into Sheepscot Bay. The owners of the B&B, Carolyn and Tom, were really great too. Very friendly and accommodating. The breakfasts we had each morning were very good and very well prepared. A jar of fresh baked cookies to snack on during the day was a treat as well. I would definitely recommend Coveside if you’re looking for a great and charming place to stay in Maine.

A favorite B&B. Terrific in every way.

what a lovely place go stay with great food, friendly innkeepers and wonderful access to the bay. would have liked a ladder at the dock for easier water access.
the rooms were spacious abd fitted out well.
Great plantings, great views, comfy beds and great hosts.
one problem was few dinner places that were close by.
very good access to Boothbay yet no crowds on the Peninsula itself

It was everything we hoped for, and much more!
The hosts were very friendly and knowledgable; got a truly amazing dinner recommendation. The room was beautiful, the bed superb!
One of the highlights was the extraordinary breakfast! No words. Met a lovely couple who have been coming back 15 years. That in and of itself says everything.
We enjoyed ourselves so much, we wanted to book another night on our return, but alas, it was fully booked, as right it should be. Looking for an excuse to go back ASAP.

Amazing place! You will not believe what Carolyn can make for breakfast. Just remember to bring a gallon of bug spray to be able to walk anywhere outside in Maine. The rooms are wonderful and the bed is divine!!!

This was our first B&B experience and what a great choice!
Carolyn and Tom are wonderful and interesting people and innkeepers with a wealth of information on recommendations for everything from hiking and site seeing to best ice cream in main and great restaurants for dinners.
More than enough to do in the nearby areas of Bath without going into the much more commercial Boothbay area.
The room was wonderful, the breakfasts were superb and I’m not even a huge breakfast person, but everything was really excellent.
The other guests were all interesting to talk with and we left after 3 nights feeling that we’d come back anytime!
I’d highly recommend this to anyone wanting a great B&B experience in Maine!
(Oh, and Gelato Fiasco in Brunswick is some of the best I’ve tasted anywhere — thanks for that recommendation Carolyn!)
Hope to return in the future!

THE VIEW is the draw here.
The cove leads to the bay… and the beautiful trees and lawn frame everything else. It’s the kind of picture-​perfect view that makes you dust off your watercolor paints and channel your inner John Singer Sargent.
CAROLYN AND TOM are the other draw.
They are fantastic hosts, they are warm and friendly but also know to leave you alone when you want your peace and quiet. They let the wonderful house, the breakfast and service speak for themselves.
They’re the kind of hosts that 10 of 10 people will say «They were perfect.» There are a lot of B&Bs out there that people will say «This place was great BUT…» The reason no one has any caveats when mentioning Coveside Inn is because of Carolyn and Tom.
Some other reasons to go…
The breakfast makes it a destination itself. Carolyn whips up wonderful fluffy pancakes and bakes amazing muffins along with other treats. Ingredients are always the best of what’s around locally and you can taste the love and care that goes into each meal.
It has none of the cheesiness of typical bed and breakfasts… the décor is tasteful but still keeping at its country theme. The building is new-​ish (10+ years?) and not a historical building but it has all the charms of an old house. Every thing is CLEAN. Nothing looks worn out, rusted or fading.
The walking distance Five Islands Lobster Company is the lobster shack of your dreams. It’s what you expect it to be in movies or magazines. And the lobsters are good. Really good. No doubt tricked in your brain to think it’s better because of this «I’m in a romantic movie shot in Maine» feel.
We’ve stayed many times and we’ll keep going back.

The good: the location, house, and grounds were very nice. Breakfast was absolutely delicious. The other guests were also pleasant and friendly.
The bad: the owners were so cold towards my girlfriend, my 3 month old son, and me, that it left a bad taste. This stems from a miscommunication between the wedding planners and the B&B owners — apparently they do not accept children under 12. They were ‘gracious’ (note the sarcasm) enough to let us stay after a painfully awkward exchange, but the consequence for us was two nights spent trying to keep my son from making a single sound. Babies should coo whenever they feel like it for God’s sake! It was the most tense B&B stay I can imagine.