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?

I have finally been diagnosed with the allergy that causes my extreme rhinitis (sneezing all day, coughing, red eyes). I am not going to die from it but it is unpleasant and not just for me.

It's grass. So antihistamines, nasal and eye sprays and the prospect of hospital treatment for long term injections.

If someone as OP says is likely to die of an allergy - or suffer serious discomfort - then that person should be consulting their doctor and, of course, avoiding the source of the allergen like mad, whether it's dogs, cats or peanuts.

And we've searched long and hard to find a dog friendly air bnb on the south coast. Most were no dogs allowed which I quite understand.

And most dog owners clear up after their dogs. The PP who said she found dog hair behind a sofa should complain about the cleaning, not about the dogs.

@viques I feel your pain. So many of my pals have gotten dogs and I resent hugely that the group choices and dynamic is now dictated by the dogs presence. I don’t dislike dogs and I’m neither allergic or scared of them. But I just want to enjoy my pals’ company without slobber, distractions and such like.

@Pikachuspal

Point taken but it increasingly feels the needs of dogs to be taken everywhere trump the rights of people with allergies to not be Ill. I don’t dislike dogs but can’t escape them these days

Increasingly finding the needs of people with allergies moaning about people taking their dogs away, when it's fuck all to do with them!

Book a place that isn't dog friendly, what's so difficult about that?

Leave people with dogs to enjoy their holidays in dog friendly paces.

I have a holiday let, it's dog friendly. I have a dog it suits me! Why would I accommodate your wants over mine?

@Malibuismysecrethome

Me too I don’t want someone’s dog all over a bed or sofa I’m using. I’m massively allergic too and it would ruin my break for a dog to have been there. For anyone who thinks I’m exaggerating a Professor said I had the highest levels he had ever seen.

Well rent somewhere that doesn't allow dogs?

It wasn’t dogs that drove me out of a cafe yesterday but noisy, uncontrolled children. YABU

www.holidaycottages.co.uk/cottages?getSearch=true&From=02%2F07%2F2022&Duration=7&scRegion=Scotland&PartySize=0&daysf=1&year=2022&SortBy=Relevance&rpp=12&page=1&PropertyFacilities=Does+not+allow+pets%3B2001%3B4&viewmap=false&period=9

64 available here! Surely one would suit you OP?

I agree OP. We stayed at a really nice place in the Lakes recently, walked into our room and it reeked of wet dog. Went back to reception who claimed it didn't - it absolutely reeked.
Called credit card company to block payment and then asked to speak to the manager and they just didn't have a non-dog room. We left.

We do have a dog, but he's a PITA on the beach and we leave him with the dog sitter for holdiays.

@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…

That's incredibly dramatic 😅🙄

Most places don't allow dogs, just avoid those that do.
Must all dog owners not be allowed on holiday because some people have allergies. There are very few places where dogs are fully welcome, most places are dogs outside only.

[quote Bluechinavase]@viques I feel your pain. So many of my pals have gotten dogs and I resent hugely that the group choices and dynamic is now dictated by the dogs presence. I don’t dislike dogs and I’m neither allergic or scared of them. But I just want to enjoy my pals’ company without slobber, distractions and such like.[/quote]
So your friends must not get a dog because it inconveniences you?

I love how anti dog people expect all others to bend to their will and demands 😂

@Pikachuspal

Point taken but it increasingly feels the needs of dogs to be taken everywhere trump the rights of people with allergies to not be Ill. I don’t dislike dogs but can’t escape them these days

'trump the rights of'

Everyone is a victim these days

Its about customer need, if dog friendly hotels/shops/cottages were not bringing in money for someone, they wouldnt be offered.

I love how anti dog people expect all others to bend to their will and demands😂

Exactly!

And they say dog owners are the entitled ones

Most places aren’t dog friendly, I own a dog.

I wish more places weren’t kid friendly and adults only

YANBU. I can't even go to Wilkos anymore.

Not that it would be my holiday accommodation of choice you understand .

Jesus H these anti dog threads are becoming increasingly tedious as well as cringey. There are plenty of places that don’t accept dogs. Just don’t tick the dog friendly box in the search bar and stop being so bleeding melodramatic.

Try ingoldmells if you want everything dog friendly. Even in a lot of the pub/restaurants inside. Just got to deal with the weed/stag/hen/swearing larger louts.

@fairylightsandwaxmelts see I don’t consider myself entitled. So a group of us who have met every week since the kids were tiny now have to accommodate a badly behaved badly trained dog which could easily be left at home with friends partner.
I used to go away in my caravan with another pal but now she has a dog and doesn’t go anywhere without it so weekends at my caravan are out because I don’t want a dog in my van.
I didn’t change the system, the new dog owners did, but expect me to accommodate their choice even though I have no desire to. On our one girlie weekend per year away we never brought our partners our husbands or our kids so why should someone’s dog be foisted on everyone else?

@Thisismynamenow stop putting words into my mouth to suit your warped argument. I never said my friends should not get a dog. However I don’t think it’s unreasonable for them to accept that I don’t want to do everything around their dog. See my comments in previous paragraph to illustrate this.

@Bluechinavase but you don't have to accommodate anything - you can just say no, or change your plans to something that suits the dog, or go away with someone else.

If you can't cope being around the dog then maybe accept that the friendship is over or will need to change for now.

I wouldn't expect someone to accommodate my dog but equally I wouldn't put my dog in kennels or leave him at home all day to accommodate a friend.

@gogohm

Less than half of holiday let's are dog friendly, I have a dog it can be hard to find suitable accommodation. With hotels premier inn do not allow dogs nor do Wetherspoons (who also have hotels)

that's funny. I find most places are dog friendly... we both can't be right. obviously we are either skewing the rest of the search criteria or we are remembering the ones we are trying to avoid. (allergies here too)

@fairylightsandwaxmelts see I don’t consider myself entitled. So a group of us who have met every week since the kids were tiny now have to accommodate a badly behaved badly trained dog which could easily be left at home with friends partner.
I used to go away in my caravan with another pal but now she has a dog and doesn’t go anywhere without it so weekends at my caravan are out because I don’t want a dog in my van.
I didn’t change the system, the new dog owners did, but expect me to accommodate their choice even though I have no desire to. On our one girlie weekend per year away we never brought our partners our husbands or our kids so why should someone’s dog be foisted on everyone else?

I’m a dog lover but I do agree with you there @Bluechinavase it’s like someone bringing a bloody baby along.

Guide dogs are allowed in all accommodation, 'dog friendly' or not. So you always run the risk of being in accommodation where a dog has been recently.

[quote Bluechinavase]@fairylightsandwaxmelts see I don’t consider myself entitled. So a group of us who have met every week since the kids were tiny now have to accommodate a badly behaved badly trained dog which could easily be left at home with friends partner.
I used to go away in my caravan with another pal but now she has a dog and doesn’t go anywhere without it so weekends at my caravan are out because I don’t want a dog in my van.
I didn’t change the system, the new dog owners did, but expect me to accommodate their choice even though I have no desire to. On our one girlie weekend per year away we never brought our partners our husbands or our kids so why should someone’s dog be foisted on everyone else?

@Thisismynamenow stop putting words into my mouth to suit your warped argument. I never said my friends should not get a dog. However I don’t think it’s unreasonable for them to accept that I don’t want to do everything around their dog. See my comments in previous paragraph to illustrate this.[/quote]
Clearly your pal prefers spending time with her dog, above spending time with you.

Her choice and she's chosen.

@HELLITHURT which is fine except she hasn’t. She brings her dog along to our coffee mornings. If she had chosen to spend time with her dog over me she would be off for walkers in the woods without us.

Walkies

@incognitoforthisone

All pubs/cafes allow dogs on.

No, not all pubs and cafes allow dogs. Most don't.

Wetherspoons and 1 other cafe in our town say no to dogs. The rest of the pubs and cafes do. It's brilliant.