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Harvelle House
About Harvelle House
Visitors who want a base away from the highway strip tend to look inland, and Prairie Valley offers exactly that. It is the basin behind the bench, holding the schools and the sports fields, with the road running west into orchard country. Harvelle House is at 12304 Dale Meadows Road in that part of Summerland, with a phone line at 778-516-0013 and more at harvellehouse.wordpress.com.
Accommodation bookings in a small town benefit from a direct call rather than guesswork, since the details that matter are not always the same from one property to the next. Breakfast, parking, whether children or pets can come, minimum stays over long weekends, and the cancellation window all vary from one place to another, so the booking call is the moment to work through that list rather than assume. Summer weekends and wedding season are when dates disappear first anywhere in the valley, so anyone with fixed dates is better off asking early than waiting.
The setting suits people here for the countryside rather than for a resort. Summerland spreads across a bench above Okanagan Lake with Penticton on the far shore, the wine and cider properties are scattered through the surrounding roads, and Giant's Head Mountain gives the town a summit with a view over the whole arrangement. Guests arriving without a car should ask about distances first, because the town is spread out and the walk from Prairie Valley down to the lakeside is a great deal easier going down than coming back up.
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