Anyone Can Rent a Room at the New ‘The Bachelorette’ Mansion
Night one of Jenn Tran's season will take place at Hummingbird Nest Ranch in Simi Valley.
Over the past two decades, The Bachelor mansion has become an LA landmark in its own right. The Spanish-style home in Agoura Hills, California, also referred to as Villa de la Vina, has been the filming site of the iconic dating show for 47 seasons of The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, and the franchise’s newest iteration, The Golden Bachelor (the exceptions being the show’s pandemic seasons featuring Matt James, Clare Crawley, and Tayshia Adams). This July, however, The Bachelorette is moving thirty miles northeast to a new location: Hummingbird Nest Ranch.
Sat in the Santa Susana Mountains, the Simi Valley estate features Spanish Colonial architecture, lush courtyards, and bounties of bougainvillea flowers. Multiple notable people have hosted their weddings there, including Vanderpump Rules star Scheana Marie, Kaley Cuoco, and Corbin Bleu. Movies and television shows have also filmed at the estate in the past; fastidious fans may remember (though The Bachelor franchise has tried to make us forget) The Bachelor: Listen to Your Heart took place there, as well as films like Book Club, and episodes of Westworld and Criminal Minds.
The Hummingbird Nest Ranch, however, is more than a wedding venue or a filming location—it’s a feasible vacation for a fan Unlike the Bachelor Mansion, which was once listed on Airbnb for $5,999 a night, Hummingbird Nest Ranch has villas you can rent starting at $500 a night for a two-bedroom cottage. While it's primarily an events venue, anyone is welcome to rent out their accommodations.
The first episode of season 21 of The Bachelorette, featuring Jenn Tran as the show’s first Asian American lead, will take place at the sprawling, 17,000 square-foot estate. However, also unlike prior seasons, it is rumored Tran and her gaggle of contestants will begin traveling immediately after the first rose ceremony, with most of the season being filmed internationally. There have been rumblings that the cast journeys to Australia and New Zealand, as well as a slew of other countries. We’ll just have to wait and see what antics ensue at this new location; if we’re lucky, maybe more champagne will explode into a contestant’s face again.
Season 21 of The Bachelorette premieres Monday, July 8 at 8 pm.