Good news for anyone who spent the last few weeks watching Sterling Point and thinking “I, too, would like to inherit a mysterious island in Canada”: you can now skip the inheritance, the decades of family secrets and the estranged half-sister, and just book the cottage directly.
Airbnb has opened bookings for Gordon Bay Cottage, the real-life Muskoka property used as the exterior of Gordon’s lakeside home in the Prime Video hit.
Requests open September 15 for a very limited run of stays this October, going for a few hundred dollars a night, which is considerably more affordable than the actual plot device.
The five-bedroom, waterfront property has been standing on Lake Joseph since 1902, comes with a private dock, canoe, kayak and paddleboard, and an 800-square-foot screened porch presumably built for exactly the kind of slow, meaningful staring the show made its whole personality.
Worth noting before you get too excited: only the exteriors and dock scenes are the real Gordon Bay. The interiors were shot on a soundstage in Toronto, so if you were hoping to recreate a specific hallway confrontation, you’ll be doing it in someone else’s kitchen.
If you’ve somehow missed the discourse — unlikely, given Sterling Point landed as a No. 1 global debut for Prime Video — the show follows 17-year-old Annie Jacobson (Ella Rubin), a New Yorker who discovers that her estranged, recently-deceased grandfather has left her his private island in Muskoka.
Which is either an incredibly generous inheritance or an incredibly elaborate way of forcing your grandkid into eight episodes of trauma processing. Possibly both.
The cottage itself does a lot of heavy lifting. It’s less a holiday home than a filing cabinet — years of letters, cards and withheld family history, all waiting for Annie to unpack them one melodramatic reveal at a time.
It’s also where she meets Ramona, her standoffish half-sister (apparently Gordon’s estate came with a “surprise sibling” clause nobody read the fine print on), and where she starts circling Ellis, the marina worker whose own father once had a whole romance with Annie’s mother decades earlier.
So really, this isn’t a fresh start for Annie so much as round two of a relationship her mum never got to finish — which is either deeply romantic or extremely concerning depending on how much therapy you’ve had.
Gordon Bay isn’t the first Sterling Point-adjacent property to make headlines this year, either. Muskoka’s already hosting a whole separate fandom thanks to a certain hockey rivals-to-lovers hit, and both cottages are, amusingly, rented out via the same host.
Somewhere in Canada, one very calm woman named Jayne is fielding booking requests from two entirely different audiences hoping to process, respectively, generational family trauma and a decade of repressed hockey pining. Same postcode, wildly different itineraries.
With season two of Sterling Point already locked in, expect the waitlist for this one to move fast. Catch up on the series here.
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