Dolphin Cottage

It is almost always Summer on Anna Maria Island! Availability is updated frequently, so please check our calendar often. A good chunk of Summer 2024 is still available!

Dolphin Cottage is a cozy, charming old-Florida home with 3 bedrooms and 1 full bathroom - perfect for a couple or family. It is very close to the beach, with only two other houses between it and our beautiful, un-crowded beach on the Gulf of Mexico, possibly one of the most beautiful beaches in the world.

The interior of the cottage is pleasantly rustic, with knotty cypress paneling on the walls and ceilings, and ceramic floor tile throughout the house. It has a cute, galley-like kitchen where everything is within reach. A central living & dining room makes up most of the house, with a dining table, sofas & recliners, HDTV with roku and DVD player. High-speed wireless internet is also available.

There are three bedrooms. The master bedroom has a queen bed, the front bedroom has a full-size bed, and the third bedroom has two twin beds, which could also be made up into a king bed. Dolphin Cottage can accommodate 6 adults. The bathroom recently underwent a well-deserved makeover and now has new ceramic tile on the walls and floor. There is an outdoor shower also with both cold and hot water - great for rinsing off the sand and salt! Beach access is a very short 150-yard, 3-minute walk!

This house is entirely ground-level; there are no stairs. There is no swimming pool, but many swim in the Gulf year-round!

Please note: This is the original Dolphin Cottage, so-named since the 1960's.
The original Dolphin Cottage is personally owner-operated and not managed by a realtor or rental company. While the other one is very cute, ours is better!

Also, you are vacationing in a residential area. Please be a good neighbor by keeping the noise to a respectful level during the day and night. Excessive and unreasonable noise can deprive the neighbors of the peaceful enjoyment of their property. Thank you. (City of Holmes Beach requires noise ordinance to be posted on all on-line listings.)

In addition, Dolphin Cottage has a maximum of two vehicles allowed and all vehicles must be parked in driveways. No street or right-of-way parking is allowed.

HB VRC 16-000020

Area Information

Dolphin Cottage is in a quiet neighborhood with little traffic and mostly full-time residents. It is walkable to shopping, restaurants, bike & boat rental, library, post office and groceries & liquor store. There is also a free trolley that runs the length of Anna Maria Island, as well as Longboat Key to the south, and a trolley stop very close to the house. Many of our regulars arrive by shuttle or ride-share, and just use bikes, golf cart, trolley or bus to get around. You can easily enjoy the island without a rental car if you choose!

Our little cottage is in the historic Gutiérrez subdivision; it was purchased by our family in the early 1960’s. Gavino Gutiérrez was one of the original founders of Ybor City in Tampa. He was the engineer who laid out the streets of Ybor city in the 1880’s. He also built one of the original homes on Anna María island called “The Shack”, which was located where the main public beach is today. The wood used to build the shack was rescued when the old court house in Tampa was torn down and rebuilt. Gavino Gutiérrez brought the wood to AMI by sailboat. Many of our lovely neighbors are members of the Gutiérrez family! (Thank you all for letting us borrow your prose!)