Expect impeccable cleanliness, upscale comfort and amenities, lavish gardens featuring the bi-level Sun and Stars Patio, wholesome, delicious food and the personal service of on-site, professional innkeepers. Yelton Manor is considered one of the best places to stay in South Haven. Our adults only boutique hotel, is the perfect place to stay for your ultimate relaxing beach vacation destination!
Tripadvisor’s “Travelers’ Choice Best of the Best” represents the most exceptional, highest-rated properties around the world, among the top 1% of all 8 million lodgings on Tripadvisor.
Yelton Manor Boutique Hotel is the ONLY Michigan lodging to be awarded the prestigious “Best of the Best” recognition. We are also honored to be named in Tripadvisor’s Top 25 Best Hotels for Romance in USA for 2020.
You also may want to take a peek at our online Guest Book, which downloads quickly and easily to your phone. This gives you a portable guide to all things at Yelton Manor, area attractions, maps and navigation, restaurants and shopping.
Count on quiet privacy, concierge excellence, premium coffee, strong WiFi, triple chocolate brownies, and always spontaneous fun. There are 1,000s of books to enjoy.
Steps to Lake Michigan’s beach and walkable to everything in the laid-back resort, our peaceful corner is blissfully out of earshot of the harbor and nightlife, but close enough to enjoy with a short walk.
Not a highway hotel, not a who-knows-what-this-is/nobody’s home Air B and B cottage, not a Ma & Pa hobby B&B, Yelton Manor Boutique Hotel B&B is a contemporary inn. We are proud to be one of the best hotels in South Haven.
The original home, next door to the Dewey Hotel, was built in the 1800s for the Postmaster of South Haven and his family. A generation later, his two daughters fashioned it as an upscale boarding house. For most of the 1900s the Feinstein family lived in the house and ran the hotel. The Dewey Hotel was torn down in the 1970s. The original house suffered a sad decline as a funky beach rental through the ’70s and ’80s. Elaine and Robert came upon the derelict corner during their search for the perfect site for their dream inn. Their goal? To create not just beach lodging, but life enhancement. The original house was enlarged and fully modernized to the core in 1988, and became Yelton Manor Bed and Breakfast. YMBB was recognized in 1991 by The Chicago Sun Times as “Top of the Crop in Luxury B&Bs”, blending elegance and period charm with modern amenities, comfortable opulence and thoughtful amusements designed for relaxation, romance, rejuvenation and inspiration.
The Manor Guest House was built two years later on the foundation of the Dewey Hotel. In 2021 Elaine and Robert retired and Victoria became the new innkeeper. She is keeping the same high standards and excellent service while breathing new energy and excitement to Yelton Manor Boutique Hotel | Bed & Breakfast.
