Spending a night away from home spares tenants the burden of cleaning, cooking meals, and lint rolling your stuffed-animal family. Make a grander entrance with today's Groupon to Maritime Inns & Resorts in Baddeck, Nova Scotia. Choose between the following options:

• For $75, you get a one-night stay for two, a breakfast buffet for two, and a Cabot Trail touring kit at Silver Dart Lodge (up to a $204 value).
• For $95, you get a one-night stay for two, a breakfast buffet for two, and a Cabot Trail touring kit at MacNeil's House Suites (up to a $275 value).

Unfurling its splendour over 90 acres of picturesque property, Maritime Inns & Resorts indulges lodgers with charming slumber quarters and enchanting views of the Bras d'Or Lakes. Coupled sojourners can stow their magic-carpet bags under a queen bed or a pair of doubles in the Silver Dart Lodge chalet (up to a $169 value) before reading their snoring intervention script by the wood-stove fireplace. Alternatively, surrender to the tranquility of a commodious West Lodge bungalow (up to a $149 value), ensconced by the Cape Breton Island countryside. The neighbouring MacNeil House, a four-star all-suite inn, also regales bedfellows with the one-bedroom queen suite (up to a $209 value) or two bedroom (up to a $240 value), a spacious and private accommodation anchored by an intimate living-room area, cozy kitchenette, and live-in sumo wrestler.

A hot buffet breakfast from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. in McCurdy's Dining Room (a $15 value/two people) lavishes eaters with eggs, bacon, pancakes, french toast, and steam facials from chafing dishes. After a morning feast, lodgers can enlist their complimentary touring kit to navigate Cabot Trail (a $20 value/two people). The touring kit includes a guide of the historical, sinuous path that winds along the Margaree River, a Cabot Trail treasure hunt, and more. The trail, completed in 1932, links coastal fishing villages in a 300-kilometre loop, encouraging epic rounds of dominoes.