Four-Bedroom Houses in Savannah: Which One Fits Your Group

Three of our Savannah homes have four bedrooms and sleep eight: Casa d'Arte, three blocks off Forsyth Park; the Liberty Street Redbrick Town and Carriage House over by Crawford Square; and Kings Way Bungalow, out of the historic grid at the end of a cul-de-sac. Same bedroom count, same headline capacity, and almost nothing else in common. One is a three-storey townhouse with a separate carriage house across a courtyard. One is a single-level bungalow with a fenced yard. The choice between them is really a choice about how your group wants to spend its evenings and whether anyone in the party wants a car.

Here is how I'd sort them.

If you want to walk everywhere, it's Casa d'Arte or Liberty Street

Both sit inside the walkable square mile, and both put you within an easy stroll of dinner. Casa d'Arte is on Habersham Street just south of Whitefield Square, three blocks from Forsyth. That matters more than it sounds: the park's perimeter path is a loop of about three quarters of a mile, which is the morning run or the after-dinner walk that keeps a group of eight from going stir-crazy in each other's company. From the Forsyth fountain, Bull Street carries you north through Monterey, Madison, Chippewa and Wright squares to River Street in about twenty minutes at Savannah pace, which is slower than you think because you keep stopping.

Inside, Casa d'Arte runs to about nineteen hundred square feet across four bedrooms and three bathrooms. There's a sitting room with a fireplace, tall windows and a chandelier, and a formal dining room that seats six. Six, not eight. If your group eats every meal together at one table, that's a real constraint and worth knowing before you book rather than after you've bought the groceries.

Liberty Street solves a different problem. It's a townhouse of three storeys plus a one-bedroom carriage house, joined by a private courtyard, in the Crawford Square area about half a mile from Broughton Street and its shops. The main house stacks a king bedroom on the second floor and two more above it, each with its own full bath. The carriage house has its own kitchen, its own king bedroom, its own bath and laundry, and a pull-out queen in the living space.

That layout is the reason to pick it. Two couples travelling together, or grandparents who want to be close but not sharing a landing at seven in the morning, get genuine separation without splitting into two bookings. The courtyard has a gas firepit, which is how most groups end up using the evening, and the kitchen island seats four for breakfast before anyone has decided what the day looks like. There's also an elevator in the townhouse, which is unusual in a historic three-storey and makes the top floor viable for someone who'd rather not do stairs twice a day.

One practical note that decides more trips than any amenity: Liberty Street includes two private garage spaces. In the historic district, where street parking means reading sweep-zone signs and feeding meters, having two cars accounted for is worth more than most things on an amenity list.

Kings Way Bungalow is the one to book if you have small children

If your group includes kids young enough that an unfenced front door is a source of low-grade anxiety, go straight to Kings Way Bungalow. Four bedrooms, two bathrooms, eight guests, at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac in a residential neighbourhood, with a large gated backyard and a barbecue area. Everything is on one level. Children can be outside without someone standing at the gate.

The trade is distance. You're a short drive from the historic district rather than a walk, under three miles from the Botanical Gardens, and about thirty-five minutes from the beach at Tybee Island. For a lot of families, that arithmetic works out well: you drive in for the squares and Mrs. Wilkes' Dining Room, drive back out, and the kids nap in the car both ways. If nobody in your party is driving, this is the wrong house.

A quick comparison, if you just want the shape of it

• Casa d'Arte — 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, sleeps 8. Habersham Street, three blocks from Forsyth Park. Dining table for six. Free street parking out front, sweep-zone signs permitting. Best for a group that wants to walk to dinner and doesn't mind eating in shifts.
• Liberty Street Redbrick Town and Carriage House — 4 bedrooms across a townhouse and a separate carriage house, sleeps 8. Crawford Square, half a mile from Broughton. Courtyard with gas firepit, elevator, two garage spaces. Best for two households sharing a trip.
• Kings Way Bungalow — 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, sleeps 8. Residential cul-de-sac, gated backyard, barbecue, all on one floor. Best for families with young children and at least one car.

When four bedrooms turns out to be three bedrooms short

Groups almost always grow between the first text message and the booking. If yours has, the Big Blue House takes both units of a duplex one block from Forsyth: six bedrooms, four bathrooms, fourteen guests. It is not a four-bedroom home, so it sits outside this shortlist, but it's the obvious move when fourteen people need one roof and one address.

Worth saying plainly: the house is over a hundred years old and we describe it that way because it's true. High ceilings, big proportions, the ambiance of its age, and the quirks that come with it. Guests who want a hotel finish should look elsewhere. Guests who want everyone under one roof a block from the park have exactly one good option in Savannah, and this is it.

Travelling with a dog complicates things, because none of the three four-bedroom houses accepts pets. The Big Yellow Brick House in the Victorian District does, for a fee and up to two dogs, and it also keeps a crib. Five bedrooms, sleeps eight, seven blocks from Forsyth. One caution we give everyone: the walls in a century-old house are thin and sound travels, so a dog that barks at footsteps will have a long week.

What's the same in all of them

Every Mint Julep home is the entire property, fully furnished, with Wi-Fi, laundry, TV with cable, towels and bathroom essentials waiting, and keyless entry so nobody is standing on a stoop at eleven at night waiting for a key handover. We start you with toilet paper and a roll of paper towels. If you're cooking most nights for eight, buy more on day one.

Noise is the house rule that catches visitors out. The city's ordinance for vacation rentals runs from nine at night to eight in the morning, and Savannah carries sound extraordinarily well, especially in courtyards and on porches. A conversation on a patio at eleven is a conversation the neighbours are having with you.

Before you reserve

Check availability and current house rules on the property page itself, where the photographs, bed configurations and booking calendar live. Rates move with the season, and Savannah's spring is the busiest stretch of the year, so a four-bedroom house for a weekend in March wants booking a long way ahead of one in January.

If you're deciding between two of these, message or call us. We answer quickly, and we'd rather talk you into the right house than take a booking for the wrong one. Book direct with Mint Julep for lower prices, direct communication, and personalized service, for a long weekend or an extended stay.