Bonavista, grown together
How three small Newfoundland projects can help Bonavista’s cabin owners, the town, the region and the province, and how anyone can help them do it. October 2026.
Not ranked yet
Get ranked, then unseat the current Newfoundland and Labrador Town Champ: Port aux Basques. ’Tis not right.
Bonavista goes on the board as soon as From the Airport lists 10 of its places to eat. Send in the cafés, takeouts and restaurants you know, and it starts climbing. Top 3 today: #1 Port aux Basques, #2 Lewisporte, #3 St. John's.
The ranking and rules: towns.fromtheairport.xyz/ranking
Put Bonavista on the board: list its first 10 places to eat ↓
Bonavista goes on the board as soon as From the Airport lists 10 of its places to eat. Send in the cafés, takeouts and restaurants you know, and it starts climbing. Top 3 today: #1 Port aux Basques, #2 Lewisporte, #3 St. John's.
The ranking and rules: towns.fromtheairport.xyz/ranking
Lead Bonavista’s push
For a council, tourism or business group. Email us who’s leading, and we’ll send what’s still missing and tell you each time Bonavista moves up.
Hosting in Bonavista? Take bookings direct with Best Kind Stays →
248 km from Gander airport264 km from Argentia ferry309 km from St. John's airport551 km from Deer Lake airport818 km from Port aux Basques ferry
Where is Bonavista?
Bonavista (in red) with every airport (✈) and ferry (⛴) into Newfoundland. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
How the three fit together
From the AirportFree. Every drive to Bonavista from the island’s airports and ferries, measured, with the stops, trails and places to eat.
→The drive from the airport and where to eat sit on every owner’s booking page
Best Kind StaysA guest books a Bonavista cabin straight from its owner. The guest’s money never passes through us.
→Local photographers credited on the guide; visitors who’ve stood there
Print the PlaceA visitor takes home a local photographer’s print of the place.
Nobody can pay to be listed on the guide, or to be first in the cabin list. That’s what keeps it worth trusting.
Why it’s good for…
The cabin owner
- Guests book with you and pay you directly. Their money never passes through us.
- A flat fee only on stays paid through your page, never more than half of what Airbnb would have taken on that stay, and capped each month. No stays, no bill.
- Your calendar syncs with the big booking sites every 30 minutes, so a night is never sold twice.
- Guests arrive knowing the 248 km drive from Gander airport and where to eat.
The town
- Every place to eat, trail and sight is listed free, from public sources. No business can buy a better spot.
- Visitors can see what’s here before they arrive, and plan more than a stop on the way through.
- Corrections and photos from locals go straight in, through one form.
The region
- Every route into Bonavista is measured from each airport and ferry, so a visitor sees the whole island’s distances at once.
- The money a visitor spends stays with local owners, cafés and photographers.
The province
- Someone from away can see where Bonavista is and how to get there from every airport and ferry.
- Bookings are paid straight to Newfoundland owners.
- Local photographers get credit, and a way to sell prints of their own places.
- Free and open, so any town, business or tourism group can use it.
Make Bonavista the best town on the map
Things only people who know Bonavista can do. Each takes a few minutes, and your name goes on it.
- List the places to eat. From the Airport has no eating page for Bonavista yet, so the town can’t be ranked. Send the cafés, restaurants and takeouts you know, and Bonavista goes on the table. Send them
- Know a trail near Bonavista? Send the one you walk most. Walk it with your phone recording and send the GPX. How to send it
- Share a photo of a place you love. Credited to you, wherever it shows. Share a photo
- Tell us what’s on. Festivals, suppers, concerts, shows and tournaments. Send an event
- Is your rink, field or hall on the map? Check the rinks, fields and clubs page, and tell us what’s missing. Tell us
- Be the first Bonavista cabin listed. No Bonavista place is on the Best Kind Stays list yet. The first owner puts the town on it. Get a booking page
Ways anyone can help it grow
- Share the Bonavista page. fromtheairport.xyz/routes/yyt-bonavista: on your website, in booking confirmations, on social media. A link costs nothing and needs no sign-up.
- Put the map on your own site. One line of code shows the drive and the day trips. How: fromtheairport.xyz/partners.
- Own a cabin or vacation home? Get your own booking page at bestkindstays.ca/owners. If another owner sent you, say so: you both get a thank-you.
- Run a business, know the town, or have a walk worth sharing? Check your listing, or send a correction, a photo, or the GPX of a walk or ride at fromtheairport.xyz/contribute.
- Take photographs of Bonavista? Print the Place turns your folder into your own site with prints, always credited to you. Ask at [email protected].
Scan with your phone camera.
Feedback, from anyone
Owners, the town, businesses, visitors: anything that’s wrong, missing or could be better. Email [email protected]. A person reads every message and writes back with what changed.
Distances are measured by road and published on fromtheairport.xyz. Counts are the town and eating pages’ own, read 24 October 2026.
On a phone, “Send to my computer” opens the share sheet. Pick AirDrop, or a message to yourself.