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Safari Beach Resort
About Safari Beach Resort
Osoyoos Lake is the reason most people come, long and shallow enough to warm well past what Canadians usually expect from a lake, and the streets nearest it are given over almost entirely to places to stay. Safari Beach Resort keeps its address at 5815 Oleander Drive, inside the compact downtown spread where the beaches, the accommodation streets and the highway blur into one another. Booking here usually means booking around the water rather than around the town.
Resort style accommodation differs from a straight motel room in ways worth pinning down before a deposit changes hands. Unit size and layout vary, some places are set up for a family week and others for a night off the highway, and shared facilities are the part that changes most from one property to the next. Ask about parking, about space for a boat or trailer, about what the beach access actually involves, and about minimum stays in the peak weeks, which are common in a town whose summer is short and heavily booked.
Call 250-495-7217 with those questions, or start at safaribeachresort.com. Timing is the other half of the decision. July and August are the crowded end of the calendar, when families return to the same stretch of sand year after year. The shoulder weeks bring harvest and wine travellers to the benches above town, and winter brings a quieter set of long stay guests escaping colder parts of the province. Each of those seasons rewards a different question on the phone, because the arrangement that suits an August week with children is not always the one that suits a February month.
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