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Watermark Beach Resort
About Watermark Beach Resort
Book a room at 15 Park Place and you land inside the compact heart of Osoyoos, where the downtown, the beaches and the lakeshore blur into a single stretch. Watermark Beach Resort holds that address, at the southern end of the Okanagan where the valley runs down toward the international border and the surrounding country turns to desert.
Lakeshore properties in this town vary widely in what they include beyond a bed, which makes the planning call worth making before you commit to dates. Ask what a suite includes and how the layouts differ, since a studio and a two bedroom unit can sit under the same roof at very different rates. Ask what is running on site during your dates, how parking is handled for guests arriving with boats or bikes, and what the policy is if the weather turns and you want to move a booking. Group bookings deserve a separate conversation entirely, because the answers depend heavily on the time of year in a town whose population changes with the season.
You can reach the resort at 250-495-5500, and watermarkbeachresort.com is the natural first stop for room types and dates. Osoyoos repays visitors who look past the sand. Vineyards climb the benches on both sides of the valley, fruit and wine move along the highway all season, and the desert interpretive sites within reach of town explain a landscape that catches most people off guard. Winter has its own following here, when people from colder corners of the province come down for a milder stretch, so the shoulder months deserve a look if crowded beaches are not what you are after.
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In the Downtown Osoyoos neighbourhood of Osoyoos.
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