To wonder why dogs are suddenly welcone at loads of hotels?

[Shellym13]

I'm allergic and ended up with streaming eyes and my inhaler on my last trip. Could hardly breath. Surely they should keep specific rooms aside and not give them to non dog owning guests!
I like dogs but not in a hotel restaurant or hotel room.

A lot of French chains of hotels allow dogs and always have. But of course they charge extra and should deep clean...

As far as Ive known, they have always been allowed for an extra charge in certain rooms.

Same goes for some holiday cottages, chalets & caravans park homes.

I dont have a problem with it & Im dogless

you are the one with the allergy so you are the onw who should be checking the product suits your requirements

I don't think so, it's a hotel, it's primary purpose is for humans to sleep, it wouldn't even cross my mind that a dog might have been (ew) in the bed before.

I stayed at a French motel
this summer and had a terrible reaction, and I'm not even that allergic. I can pet a dog, walk it etc. the dog must have been in the bed. I slept in my car in the end.

Wow I didn't know this. I've not stayed in a hotel that often but it's been the cheaper end.

I totally would be very asthmatic, even if the room was cleaned. I usually ask on advance if there's any "real" pillows as they have to be completely out of the roo. For my asthma.

It just did not occur to me that dogs would be in standard rooms. I knew holiday chalets had some dogs could use as I couldn't then use them but no idea about travel lodge etc.

If I said I was allergic to pets would they just clean it (wouldn't be enough for my asthma) or would they have rooms completely dog free.

I'm anxious now. We've booked a trip early next year but I will email to ask.

Ime more hotels don't allow dogs than do.

If you feel many do, ask before hand. Like you would with any other requirement you had.

I worked in hotels for years. Only one allowed dogs and they did behave better and cause less problems than human guests.

in my experience, when dogs are allowed, generally it's only in certain rooms. I agree this didn't seem to be the case in the motel we stayed at in France - our dog didn't come. So perhaps check first?

If a dog stays in a hotel then extra care should be taken by the cleaners to make sure that all evidence of a dog staying is gone, so that the next people staying don't have to endure any nasty smells or pet hairs.

Hotels are for humans to stay in, so their comfort comes first. Hotels shouldn't have to allow dogs at all.

oohlala I have a small dog if I tie him up outside shops he gets a lot of attention. Most children are great but two three of four at a time can crowd him and he gets frightened. He is also very very cute and small, cute dogs get stolen. So if I can I pick him up and walk around the shop carrying him. He's a short haired jrt cross so no grooming on the other hand I've just knitted him a bumble bee coat please feel free to judge

The z hotel in London leister sq allows dogs.

We regularly have a dog in the office. Usually one of the directors dogs.

"I've stopped going to my usual restaurant as it's become the place to take dogs"

I would have thought that it would be against H & S regulations.

I would have thought that it would be against H & S regulations.

Why? So long as the dog stays on the floor, and you don't eat off it, whats the problem? Pubs and a lot of cafes have always welcomed dogs - again, especially in the countryside where walkers want refreshment.

The hotels will have allocated rooms for folks bringing dogs and others for those without, preventing allergy issues, they do it because it increases their capacity to make money as they are running a business and are basically keeping as many folk happy to make as much money as possible. DOgs are all over now and folk manage their allergies and people with and without dogs manage to get along most of the time so why not in hotels?

Interesting - we've just booked a week away at a holiday cottage in the UK and i remember while i was researching which to choose i thought there were more than usual saying dogs (and cats!) allowed. Doesn't bother us either way as long as the place is clean on arrival. It's to do with wanting to appeal to as many potential customers as poss. i guess.

I agree that if you're allergic enough to react to the past presence of a dog then you need to be checking there's been no dogs in the room (or the whole hotel) when you book.

And a lot of dogs are better behaved than many children

This isn't going to make dogs any more welcome in certain places. They are animals, not humans. I'm sure other animals other than dogs are better behaved than children, doesn't means owners have to cart them around everywhere they go because they apparently come as a package 😂 Dogs are no different.

Someone i used to know would go on "holidays" to a pet friendly hotel, just to take the pet hamster on holiday! They'd literally book the travelodge or whatever it was near their home, to take the hamster, and let it have free run of the room for a few days.

I am aware they should have seperate rooms but it was full the night we stayed and I doubt they would turn away 2 paying guests without a dog and keep a room free. I'll definitely be asking in future, there's no way housekeeping have enough time in a full hotel to remove all traces of hair. It's actually the dust from the hair I'm allergic to. As I said I do like dogs. I live in scotland and I would say most hotels up here allow them for between an extra 10 and 40 a night per dog.

Yes, have noticed this, and not happy about it. Don't want to be in a room that's had dogs in it, on the bedspread, chairs, sofa etc. Cleaning the room between guests would make no difference to those with allergies. Now we always check in advance, as with restaurants etc, to avoid those places.

I've noticed this too, and try to avoid places that allow dogs. I'm not allergic, I just don't like doggy smell and the hairs get everywhere (two reasons why I wouldn't have a dog myself) and I don't think hotels are generally cleaned well enough for me to trust that a dog-friendly room won't have that. As for pets in restaurants - yuck. Fine in pubs if no food is being served.

I had to laugh at the MC 4 kids 1 lab post.

I don't like dogs at all and I would not want to stay in a hotel that allowed them.

I don't think you can easily clean a room between guests if a dog has stayed in it so I would totally expect rooms to be kept for dog-lovers only. If the hotel loses money by not letting it, well there's an easy solution.

I also saw someone walking their dog around a garden centre this week (the indoor bit with all the Christmas gifts). Why don't people just leave them at home or in the car? And don't say because they'll get lonely/trash the place - you knew that when you acquired them.

I'm with the people on here who think dogs have become a big status symbol for some people, along with the Chelsea tractor.

Not many do in my experience. Don't go to the ones that do then you won't have to worry about anything remotely dog related.

Would these people who would love dogs to be allowed in hotels like my noisy cockatiel to come along with me to a hotel? Or is it just special doggy treatment that they want? Hmmm I think the latter.

Note: I don't actually want to bring my cockatiel to a hotel. But he would create the same irritation as some people's precious dogs would, but some people are just a bit too defensive and precious about dogs to see this...

I think hotels have realised, what a massive slice of the pie they've been missing out on, by not being dog friendly. All for it personally

Star we have a lab as a therapy dog for my children who have autism, so stop being a twat. He's not an official assistance dog, but we chose him for therapeutic benefit not status symbol. If hotels and shops accept him it enables my children to access opportunit's others take for granted so fuck off with your judgement already.