The number one dog friendly hotel on earth for two years running, where Wednesday night belongs to the dogs, dinner arrives under a cloche, and the concierge answers to the name Rocco.
A Kyung Hee University study of 491 dog owners priced every part of a dog friendly hotel. A play area was worth $117 a night and a lounge run by a trained dog specialist $146, while a bed, steps and a welcome basket in the room made the hotel worth less.
Bulldogs, pugs and French bulldogs cope with heat and stress worse than other dogs, and most airlines now refuse them in the hold. What the research shows, which airlines take them and how, and how to plan the car, the hotel and the walks.
A Renaissance villa on the banks of the Arno, fifteen minutes from Florence, where the dog stays free with no weight limit, dines beside you in both restaurants and has a private park to run in.
An 11th century hamlet in the Luberon, now a Relais & Châteaux estate of vineyards, forest and lavender, where your dog arrives to its own bed and bowls, dines from the K9 Sommelier menu and has 42 hectares to walk.
Kit Kemp's colourful Midtown hotel, two blocks from Central Park, where dogs stay free, sleep on their own bed and join you for drinks on the heated terrace.
Lufthansa takes small dogs in the cabin up to 8 kg with the carrier, bigger dogs in the hold, and snub-nosed breeds in the cabin only. The 72 hour booking rule, the forms, the fees and the airports where a dog cannot change planes.
A beachfront resort on Santa Maria Bay where your dog sleeps on its own bed, eats from its own menu and walks the gardens with you, and where the hotel will walk and sit the dog while you swim the reef.
Crufts returns to the NEC Birmingham from 4 to 7 March 2027. When each breed group is judged, what to see beyond the show rings, how to get there, and the one rule every dog owner needs to know before planning the trip.
A guide to the world's top thirty-two best hotel dog food menus, from fine dining to organic gourmet dishes and everyday staples, the founder of Roch takes a look at some of his favourite hotel canine menus from around the world.
A nine hundred year old Tuscan borgo among Brunello vineyards, where your dog stays free, sleeps on its own bed and joins you at every table on the estate, from the trattoria veranda to a two Michelin star dinner.
For two centuries the canons of the Great St Bernard and their dogs brought lost travellers home through the snow. The true story of Barry, the legends the museum in Bern took apart, and where you can still meet the dogs today.
Above the river in the old Samaritaine, a seventy two room Maison where your dog stays free, joins you at the bar and at dinner, and has a Majordome to walk them while you eat.
No Manhattan hotel has a real garden, so this one on Columbus Circle borrows the best in the world. A bed by the window, a concierge who knows the park, and eight hundred acres across the road.
In the Italian Dolomites, a timber chalet where your dog gets a bed, a seat at dinner in the Bistrot, and a place on the hotel's own guided hikes.
A grand old hotel on the bluffs above the Pacific, with a garden for your dog, a seat for them at the restaurant, and a pet fee that helps rescue dogs find homes.
A Waikiki hotel where any dog of any size stays free, the bar and the restaurant are open to them, and a French bulldog called Jack receives guests by the pool on Tuesdays.
California now requires landlords to hand over their written pet policy before taking an application fee. What the new law gives dog owners who rent, what it leaves alone, and what to do before April 2027.
A plain guide for dog owners to microchips, rabies jabs, health certificates and getting home again, in the order they have to be done.
Whether your dog can fly in the cabin, what each airline charges and allows, how safe the hold really is, and how to get your dog ready for the day.
How to tell an emergency from a wait and see, what to do in the first minutes, and how to find a vet in a place you do not know.
What an American dog needs to enter the European Union, the vaccine detail that trips people up, how to get a dog across the Atlantic, and the form you need to come home.
Most dogs that get heatstroke get it on a walk, not in a car. How to judge the heat, plan the day around it, and what to do if your dog overheats.
United takes dogs in the cabin for $150 each way with no weight limit, allows two pets if you buy two seats, and no longer checks pets into the hold. The rules and the destinations it excludes.
