To want holiday accommodation that’s not dog friendly

[Pikachuspal]

Almost every place I look at is advertised as dog friendly! My kids are allergic to animal hair, as in react to hair on someone’s clothes. What’s the point in forking out for a holiday for it to be potentially ruined by hair and manky dog smell?

We have the opposite problem for all of the areas of the UK that we visit- loads of them do not accept dogs.

I'm with you all the way on this one OP. Pretty much every holiday park I've looked at in recent weeks is 'dog friendly'. I don't want other peoples dogs, their annoying barking and their turds all around when I'm on holiday thanks very much.

I use cottages.com to book holiday homes. There is a mix of ones that welcome dogs and ones that don't. Your choices may be limited if you are booking something in the next few months, but there should be something.

To be honest even the ones that allow dogs have been clean and don't smell or have pet hair visible. It might not be good enough for an actual allergy, but for the most part they are as clean as any other holiday home.

I can't think of a single pub or cafe near me that allows dogs

I want to move to wherever you live! My local town has 8 cafes, 7 of which allow dogs inside. The only one that doesn’t is Costa, and that probably does the worst coffee.

@Pikachuspal

Have a look at holiday cottages in Scotland then for doggy people more allow dogs than not. Nice attitude from people who minimise allergies, they can kill and at the least make life pretty miserable for sufferers.

Try Beacon Hill Farm near Morpeth in Northumberland. They don't allow pets. Although you do need to be aware that no holiday home owner/hotel/air bnb can refuse a service dog for the blind

Don’t get me started on this, recently stayed at a dog friendly B & B where a dog in the next room whined continuously from 6 till 11pm when it’s owners went out. Ruined our stay.

OP, some accommodation allows pets, if your dc are so allergic a single hair is this huge threat how do you leave the house? Animals are everywhere, pet owners will have hairs on them

This isn’t how animal allergies work though. The allergen molecules remain in the air on and the walls for 6 months. I can sit next to a pet owner for a period of time depending on how much allergen they have on them, but if there’s lots then l will start to sneeze. I just avoid places with animals. It’s repeated occupation is enclosed areas that cause the problems.

And it’s not hair that causes allergies. It’s dander and saliva.

@keeptalkinghappytalk

The default for hotels, cottages and also restaurants and pubs now seems to be … whether advertised as such or not …. that dogs are welcomed. This means loads of us… allergic, or timid around dogs, or just plain unwilling to sleep and eat in the company or detritus of other people’s dogs… have fewer and fewer options and are being frozen out of hospitality…

Dogs don't leave behind "detritus". They're not crumbling buildings. If you are finding whatever unspecified mess you mean in cafes/holiday accommodation after a dog has been in that sounds like a problem with the cleaning, not the dog.

Having worked in hospitality, families with young children are by far the worst at leaving "detritus" behind, including some genuinely utterly disgusting stuff, like used nappies left on restaurant tables. Even the nicer families regularly leave tables looking like a bombs gone off. Dogs by comparison are barely any mess or trouble at all.

Even if they don't allow pets surely you have to actually speak to them to highlight the allergy because even no-pets places may have visitors with service dogs staying.

The place we stay doesn't allow pets, but they absolutely allow Guide Dogs so the allergy issue would still be there.

Dear people who don't want places which admit dogs. Your google search terms are: holiday cottage no pets

If you're looking for cafes/restaurants/pubs that don't admit dogs, replace 'holiday cottage' in the above search string with the relevant word.

@MajesticallyAwkward

The whataboutery on mn is ludicrous.

OP, some accommodation allows pets, if your dc are so allergic a single hair is this huge threat how do you leave the house? Animals are everywhere, pet owners will have hairs on them.

Just book a non pet friendly place, they are the majority and 'what about allergies' is irrelevant. Would you ban accommodation with stairs because not everyone can use them? What about TVs because not everyone watches them? Baths because not everyone can use one? No? Almost like people can book the most suitable place for themselves

I thought this. How would that child go to school etc if even a hair could seriously injure/make them very unwell? When I had a dog there was always a chance that I might have a hair on my clothing or bag or something. Surely it’s the same for teachers everywhere and the other school children.

Dogs don't leave behind "detritus".

They leave behind invisible allergens though

@Mushypeasandchipstogo

Don’t get me started on this, recently stayed at a dog friendly B & B where a dog in the next room whined continuously from 6 till 11pm when it’s owners went out. Ruined our stay.

Did you say anything? Or just seethe silently in a very British fashion and then post a scathing review online?

Go somewhere where dogs aren’t allowed then.

I want to move to wherever you live! My local town has 8 cafes, 7 of which allow dogs inside. The only one that doesn’t is Costa, and that probably does the worst coffee.

I want to move where you live. I like coffee.

I bet some of the rural pubs near-ish to me do, I've just never seen it advertised.

I completely agree with you. Recently booked a rather pricey air bnb after the owners promised the cleaning was top notch and there would be me evidence of previous doggy customers but there was great clumps of dog hair in all the corners and edges of the rooms

It’s not difficult to specify in your search terms that you don’t want a dog friendly cottage or house.

I'm always looking for accommodation that isn't child friendly and that's an equal challenge OP

most self catering stuff, especially the top end is still no dogs. I just gooogled pet free cottages and got screenloads.

@ArseInTheCoOpWindow

Dogs don't leave behind "detritus".

They leave behind invisible allergens though

The air is constantly full of invisible allergens wherever you go. I'd love to be able to find cafes which don't allow plant pollen, unfortunately that's not an option. At least people who can't or don't want to be around dogs can avoid them.

@Sugarplumfairy65
"Try Beacon Hill Farm near Morpeth in Northumberland. They don't allow pets.
Although you do need to be aware that no holiday home owner/hotel/air bnb can refuse a service dog for the blind"

yes they absolutely can under the "reasonable adjustment" rules.....and the the animal assistance rules apply to ALL assistance animals not just Guide dogs for the blind.

We have the same problem, and even when we have found a "no dogs" place, when we check they often say that they allow their own dogs to stay. Of course they are perfectly entitled to as it's their house, but it means it's no good for us.

There's plenty of holiday accommodation where dogs are not allowed. In fact, dog owners often say they have difficulty in finding somewhere with their dog. Therefore it should not be a problem. However you never know if the owner has a dog and has taken them there. Nothing is 100% safe.

I hope you find a good place and have a lovely time.

[quote godmum56]@Sugarplumfairy65
"Try Beacon Hill Farm near Morpeth in Northumberland. They don't allow pets.
Although you do need to be aware that no holiday home owner/hotel/air bnb can refuse a service dog for the blind"

yes they absolutely can under the "reasonable adjustment" rules.....and the the animal assistance rules apply to ALL assistance animals not just Guide dogs for the blind.[/quote]
No, it is illegal to refuse access to an assistance dog, it would count as discrimination to the disabled person who needs them (in order for this to apply, however, the dog must be certified by a recognised assistance dog organisation, people can't just claim any dog or other pet is an assistance animal without proper training).

Although you do need to be aware that no holiday home owner/hotel/air bnb can refuse a service dog for the blind

Or indeed any kind of official service animal (we are not yet at the stage of the USA, where people self-declaring all kinds of unlikely critters as 'therapy animals' devalues the concept for those who genuinely need a service animal).

Sadly, the law is often blatantly flouted on this: people with guide dogs being left alone late at night once the taxi driver sees the dog etc..