Rooms from $520

Sunset Shores seen from the water at sunset, its terraces stepping down a rocky headland, the sun low on the horizon

A coastal resort on two miles of private shoreline

Sunset Shores · on the south coast

Find your room

Rooms and suites above the water, coastal dining at Vera, cabanas at Emerald Pool, and a property that comes alive after eight.

Rooms and suites from $520 a night. No deposit to hold a room.

Or call 1 800 555 0142, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Where you are

A headland with the sea on three sides

Sunset Shores sits on two miles of south-facing shoreline, between a working harbor town and a stretch of coast with nothing on it at all. The light arrives late here and leaves slowly, which is most of the reason people come in October.

The airport is an hour and ten, forty minutes of it past the last traffic light. Most guests arrive in the afternoon and do not move the car again.

A suite sitting room with a low stone table and a sofa, the terrace doors open to a lounger outside
Shoreline Suite, looking west

Rooms & Suites

Rooms and suites that open onto the water

Every room here faces out. The west building takes the afternoon and the east building takes the morning, and each one has a balcony, a terrace or a door onto the lawn. Five room types, from a garden room for two to a villa on the point with water on three sides.

The one people book again

Shoreline Suite

  • Sleeps 2, plus a sofa bed
  • 1,140 sq ft
  • Sea on two sides

The corner room at the west end, with windows on two walls and a terrace big enough to eat on. It takes the last of the light.

From $1,240 a night

A ground-floor room with a writing desk, doors open onto a shaded garden terrace with chairs and dense planting

Garden Room

Ground floor, onto the garden, with a window seat wide enough to sleep in. The quietest room on the property.

From $520 a night

See the Garden Room
A villa living space with a kitchen island and a dining table, a bedroom through the doorway, the terrace and the sea beyond

Headland Villa

Four of them, on the point, with three bedrooms, a kitchen nobody uses and water on three sides.

From $2,400 a night

See the Headland Villa
The Vera terrace in daylight, a laid table in the foreground and more tables beyond it, palms and the bay through the open side

Vera Restaurant

A tasting menu that changes with the catch

Vera runs one tasting menu a night, built on whatever the boats brought in that morning. Six seats at the counter face the pass, one sitting, and they are the reservation that goes first. The dining room takes the other thirty-four.

Before ten

Spa treatments and sunrise yoga at Paradise

Spa and wellness
A treatment bed under folded linen seen through an open timber door, a planted courtyard beyond the curtain

Spa at Paradise

Eleven treatment rooms, a hammam, and a courtyard that stays quiet. Treatments run from seven.

The spa
Four guests standing on mats with their hands raised above their heads, on a stone terrace above the water, the sun low on the horizon

Sunrise Yoga

On the terrace above the beach, 6:30 a.m., sixty minutes.

Sunrise yoga times
Timber reformers in a rank on a wood floor, a shelved wall of rolled towels and weights at one side, palms and the sea through the glazing

Pilates

Reformer studio, six machines, three times a day.

Pilates times
A green with the flag above the cliff edge, a deep bunker cut into the near slope, breaking surf beyond

Paradise Greens

Eighteen holes along the headland

Par 71, two tee sheets a day, and a starter who will pair you up if you are on your own. Carts are included in the green fee.

Tee times and rates
Emerald Pool down its length at sunset, the sun on the horizon at its center, cabanas and loungers along the near edge
Cabanas along the edge of Emerald Pool, striped canvas overhead and yellow cushions on the daybeds, with the water directly below the decks

Emerald Pool

Cabanas on the water at Emerald Pool

The pool runs two hundred and sixty feet along the lower terrace. Twenty-two cabanas sit along the top edge, each seating six, with shade you control, a stocked refrigerator and a server on that terrace all afternoon. Eight daybeds sit nearer the water, for two.

Cabanas and daybeds

If the pool is not where you want to be all day, take a bike out to the point before the light goes. Bikes and equipment are at the beach hut.

Offer

Stay four nights, pay for three

On rooms and suites, for stays through December 15. The night that comes off is the lowest-rate night of your stay, and it comes off at the search rather than at checkout.

This and other offers

After dark

After eight, the property changes

A nightclub, two lounges and a nine-hundred-seat theater, all of it inside the gate. Most guests never plan for any of it.

Euphoria from the edge of the floor, the room full and the booth lit under the arch at the far end

Nights at Euphoria

Euphoria, Thursday through Sunday

A long lit bar with stools down one side and separate seating groups facing it

Dionysus Lounge

Low light, a long bar, and a room where a conversation works.

Dionysus and its hours
The Sports Viewing Lounge bar in the evening, three screens showing football and golf above the lit bottles, stools along the counter and candlelit tables in front

Sports Viewing Lounge

Eight booths you reserve, every game, and a minimum that moves with the hour.

Booths and minimums
The Zephyr Theatre from the stage, rows of burgundy seats rising to a curved balcony, the walls lit low in bronze and gold

Zephyr Theatre

Nine hundred seats in the middle of the property. Currently running Salt, five nights a week.

What is on at Zephyr
The Oasis Ballroom banqueted for a dinner, white florals and candles on round tables, the terrace doors open on the sunset

Gather

Meetings and celebrations on the coast

Forty at one table, under the palms, with the doors open onto the sea, is the evening people ask for by name. Eleven spaces sit behind it, from a boardroom for sixteen to a ballroom that divides three ways.

Spaces and capacities

The property

Sunset Shores, in photographs

All photography
A stone bowl, oils and folded towels on a travertine shelf at the spa, an olive branch above them
The entrance canopy from the drive, lit from within, olive trees in stone urns either side and the sun going down behind
The arrival, at sunset
The two nearest cabanas at Emerald Pool, striped canvas overhead and the water below the decks
The lounge from the door, the lit bar on the left and seating groups down the right
Dionysus, before service
Two glasses of champagne raised over a candlelit table at Euphoria

First word on offers, openings and what is on

Seasonal rates before they are published, the new season at Vera, and what is coming to Euphoria and Zephyr Theatre. About one email a month, and you can leave the list from any of them.