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Waterfront Home with Dock, Boat Launch, and Movie Theatre Room!

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A lakeside view with a wooden fence, neatly trimmed bushes, and a dock with boats.
A single-story house with a beige siding exterior, a front door with a black door frame, and two chimneys on the roof. There are four well-maintained bushes in front of the house, and a small gravel pathway leading to the door.
A home theater room with a large screen, multiple recliner seats, and a small table.
A bedroom with a bed, a nightstand, a dresser, a ceiling fan, and a sliding glass door leading to a balcony.
A grassy area with a wooden fence, a small tree, and a building with a covered porch.

Reviews

8.4 out of 10
Very good

Highlights

  • Arcade/game room
    A rare find - fun for all ages with on-site arcade/game room.
  • Discover nearby landmarks
    Close to Houghton Lake

Popular amenities

  • Patio
  • Arcade/game room
  • Barbecue
  • Air-conditioning
  • Pet-friendly
  • Refrigerator

Explore the area

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Houghton Lake, MI
  • Place, Houghton Lake
    ‪1 min walk‬
  • Place, Houghton Lake Marina
    ‪5 min walk‬
  • Place, Houghton Lake Flats Flooding State Wildlife Management Area
    ‪5 min walk‬

Rooms & beds

3 bedrooms (sleeps 8)

Bedroom 1

1 Single Bunk Bed

Bedroom 2

1 Double Bed

Master Bedroom

1 Queen Bed

1 bathroom

Bathroom

Bathtub or shower · Toilet · Shower only

Spaces

Deck or patio
Porch or lanai
Kitchen
Garden
Dining area

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About the area

Houghton Lake

Located in Houghton Lake, this holiday home is on the waterfront. Houghton Lake Marina and Brian's Lakeside Marina are worth checking out if an activity is on the agenda, while those wishing to experience the area's natural beauty can explore Houghton Lake Flats Flooding State Wildlife Management Area and Houghton Lake Wildlife Research Area. Enjoy the area's slopes with cross-country skiing, and don't miss out on the ice skating and snowmobiling.
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Houghton Lake, MI

What's nearby

  • Houghton Lake - 1 min walk - 0.1 km
  • Houghton Lake Marina - 5 min walk - 0.5 km
  • Houghton Lake Flats Flooding State Wildlife Management Area - 5 min walk - 0.5 km
  • Au Sable River - 20 min drive - 39.3 km
  • Hartwick Pines State Park - 23 min drive - 46.1 km

Getting around

  • Traverse City, MI (TVC-Cherry Capital) - 79 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪McDonald's - ‬9 min drive
  • ‪MJ's Eatery - ‬10 min drive
  • ‪Northshore Lounge - ‬6 min walk
  • ‪The Country Corner Partystore and Pizza - ‬15 min drive
  • ‪Old town tavern - ‬11 min drive

Frequently asked questions

Is Waterfront Home with Dock, Boat Launch, and Movie Theatre Room! pet-friendly?

Yes, this property allows pets (limit 2 total). Some restrictions may apply, so please contact the property for more details.

How much is parking at Waterfront Home with Dock, Boat Launch, and Movie Theatre Room!?

On-site parking is available at the property.

What time is check-in at Waterfront Home with Dock, Boat Launch, and Movie Theatre Room!?

Check-in begins at 3:00 PM.

What time is check-out at Waterfront Home with Dock, Boat Launch, and Movie Theatre Room!?

Checkout is at 10:00 AM.

Where is Waterfront Home with Dock, Boat Launch, and Movie Theatre Room! located?

This family-friendly Houghton Lake holiday home is located on the waterfront, within a 10-minute walk of Houghton Lake, Houghton Lake Flats Flooding State Wildlife Management Area and Houghton Lake Marina. Higgins Lake and Houghton Lake Wildlife Research Area are also within 6 miles (10 km).

Reviews

8.4

Very good

Reviews are presented in chronological order, subject to a moderation process, and verified unless otherwise labelled.
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Rating 10 - Excellent. 22 out of 36 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 4 out of 36 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 6 out of 36 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 3 out of 36 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 1 out of 36 reviews

8.0/10

Cleanliness

4.0/10

Amenities

4.0/10

Property conditions & facilities

9.6/10

Check-in

9.2/10

Communication

9.6/10

Location

9.0/10

Listing accuracy

Reviews

Verified review

8/10 Good

Liked: Check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
Great location. Plenty of room for our family. Quiet neighborhood!
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2026
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
Had fun & a great location!
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2026
Verified review

6/10 Okay

Liked: Location
Disliked: Communication, listing accuracy
pictures are deceiving
Stayed 7 nights in Aug 2026
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
Had a good time
Stayed 5 nights in Feb 2026
Verified review

4/10 Poor

Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities, communication
Good location.
Stayed 31 nights in Jul 2025
Verified review

2/10 Terrible

Liked: Check-in, communication
Disliked: Cleanliness, listing accuracy
Place was dirty. Bugs in the house. No coffee pot. Dishes dirty. Landscaping was horrible. Weeds everywhere, house was filthy. Very disappointed. I got ripped off. VRBO will be contacted.
Stayed 6 nights in Jul 2026
Verified review

8/10 Good

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
Stayed with family for a fishing trip. Nice home in a great location. Very clean and easy communication
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2025
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Great Location

Great place very open and roomy!
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2023
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Perfect

Would stay again
Stayed 4 nights in May 2023
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Memorial weekend

Great location. Easy in and out with the boat. Awesome theater room!! Highly recommend
Stayed 3 nights in May 2025
Verified review

4/10 Poor

Liked: Check-in, communication, location
Disliked: Cleanliness
Four adults stayed here for a long-weekend fishing trip.Pros: The location is great, right on a small canal off the lake, and the dock was convenient. The theater room has very comfortable recliners and is a fun space, though it lacks speakers, so the sound is weak.Cons: The multi-plug adapters used throughout the house sparked whenever more than one thing was plugged in. The oven overheated during normal use (400F for 20 minutes) and its screen went blank, and in that state it couldn't be turned off. The breaker box is behind a locked door, so we couldn't cut power to it either. We only got it shut off by looking up the model and finding instructions online.The listing says "All kitchen utensils, plates, cups, pots/pans included." The "pots/pans" turned out to be two cookie sheets and one small saucepan. Bring your own cookware.The house seems fine at first, but not once you actually sleep and live in it. Dust is caked on multiple surfaces and the fans, and there are lots of dead bugs along the baseboards and in the lamp covers. The beds are old spring mattresses that smelled dusty and were very uncomfortable.At over 300 a night, I expected the listed amenities, a clean house, and basic safety. Next time, we'll stay somewhere else.
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2026
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

GREAT TIME AT A REALLY GREAT PLACE!

I really enjoyed my stay here! VERY clean and cute place with everything a person needs. I especially loved the fact that I just had to go out the kitchen door wall and walk about 10 ft. to go fishing in the canal!
Stayed 13 nights in May 2023
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Super Quiet

Super quiet and excellent access to lake. Fishing was superb. Clean and comfortable home with Wi-Fi, Netflix or prime video available. Really enjoyed our stay.
Stayed 6 nights in Jul 2023
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Stay in Houghton house

Great house, slept everyone very comfortably. Holding to get it again next winter
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2023
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Great location

The house was amazing. I loved that it was off a Canal. It was easy to tie our boat to. If I had a question the owner got back to me fast. We really enjoyed our time at this house.
Stayed 6 nights in Jun 2023
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Quiet

We stayed here for a couple of days to just get away and was looking for something that was on the water, allowed pets and was peaceful. Which is exactly what we got. Cant wait to stay again!
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2023
Verified review

8/10 Good

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
House was nice. Boat launch was not so nice wasn’t deep enough to get the boat off the trailer. Had to use the DNR launch.
Stayed 4 nights in Aug 2025
Verified review

6/10 Okay

Liked: Check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
Disliked: Cleanliness

Great location

Great convenient location.place was very dirty and smelly. With the cleaning fees charged it should have been clean. We had to wash all linens before use it smelled like smoke and was not in need of a full cleaning which we did before and after use.
Stayed 7 nights in Aug 2024
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Great Cabin!

For our purposes this cabin worked out perfectly. Went up for a weekend with friends, didn’t want to spend a ton of time at the cabin other than Sleeping and cooking with our pontoon with us. Cabin was clean, ice cold AC, and “steaming” hot water. Ken was responsive in the only message I had to send him. Only recommendation is if you have a boat or a pontoon, probably best to pay $5 and launch near the marina, 2 minutes away; the launch on the canal is a bit shallow if you have a longer trailer. Checks all the boxes for a good weekend.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2024
Verified review

6/10 Okay

Liked: Communication, location, listing accuracy

yearly family fishing trip

The trip was a great trip with my four Kids, a Grandson and my brother. Staying on a canal was nice for mooring our boat, pontoon and relaxing, out of the weather. Unfortunately the slips were not clearly marked which made a daily problem with having space in our slips. Each night we would come in from fishing, there wouldn't be room in our numbered slips for our two boats
Stayed 5 nights in May 2023
Verified review

6/10 Okay

Liked: Check-in
Disliked: Location

Outdoor maintenance needed

The inside of the cabin was clean and well put together. However the outside was in shambles. There was junk pile on the outside of the building. The bushes and shrubs buy the back where you would sit outside were overgrown and needed to be trimmed. Weeds growing through the concrete at the sitting area. 2 old picnic tables were the only outdoor furniture. One table had an old shelve underneath one leg to keep it level the the brackets of the shelf sticking up. Dangerous.
Stayed 4 nights in Jul 2024
Verified review

6/10 Okay

Liked: Location

Houghton Lake getaway

Well, for one thing we couldn’t get in due to door code being wrong, after that we each took a bedroom, with one sleeping on air mattress in garage and one sleeping on air mattress in living room, we’re big guys that need room. Exterior of house was filthy, needed power washed with a couple exterior lights needing repair, inside of house was clean, nice kitchen, we ate breakfast there and went to different restaurants for supper. The Keurig coffee pot leaked like a sieve. Everything else was operational, except for television. It was supposed to stream off your personal devices but that didn’t work, we had my 6 year old grandson, and it would have been nice for him to watch something, but the three computer technicians I took with me couldn’t get anything going there. So that was a dealbreaker for us. It was good enough to fish from for 6 days, but won’t go back there.
Stayed 7 nights in Jun 2022
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
Clean! Great atmosphere and amazing hosts! 5 starts all around! Also they respond to questions very quickly. Highly recommend!!
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2026
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Labor Day Vaca

House was exactly as posted. Lots of the small things you might forget were on site. Lots of kitchen tools, dishes, pots, serving bowls at house to use. Great location!
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2021
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Perfect

It was a nice location nice home everything we needed was there. Loved having a washer and dryer good location close to the main town.
Stayed 7 nights in Jul 2021
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