Dog-friendly, verified · fees upfront
Good news.
You’re coming too.
That’s the part your dog hears. Yours: every hotel here publishes its full pet policy before you book. The fee, the size limit, the restaurant rule. No small print, no €40-a-night surprise at the desk.
- 5
- policy fields on every listing
- €0
- surprise fees at check-in
- 1
- rule: not in writing, not listed
The policy card
Five answers before you book.
“Pet-friendly” can mean anything, and you’ve met the anything: the fee nobody mentioned, the six-kilo limit, the dog tied up outside the restaurant. So we don’t use the word until a hotel answers five questions in writing. The answers go on the listing, in this exact table.
Dog fee, in euros
Exact and per night. “Pet fee may apply” is not an amount, so it doesn’t get listed.
Size limit, in kilos
A number, or the word “none”. Written down, so the Leonberger checks in as smoothly as the dachshund.
Dogs in the restaurant
Yes or no, breakfast included. “On the terrace, weather permitting” only if that is exactly what the policy says.
Bed and bowls
Provided or bring-your-own. Both are fine. Finding out at 10pm is not.
Nearest green
Metres to the closest park, field or beach where a dog can be a dog. Measured from the front door.
Policy card
Canal-house hotel, Amsterdam
- Dog fee€12 / night, flat
- Size limitnone
- In the restaurantyes, breakfast too
- Bed & bowlsprovided, two sizes
- Nearest green240 m · Vondelpark
Published on every listing, exactly like this.
Policy card
“Pet-friendly” hotel, name withheld
- Dog fee€40 / night, at check-in
- Size limit6 kg
- In the restaurantno, “tied outside is fine”
- Bed & bowlsno
- Nearest greena car park
A real policy we read this month. Not listed, not ever.
The sniff test
How a hotel earns the stamp.
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We ask the awkward questions
The exact fee, the exact limit, the restaurant rule. In writing, from the hotel, before anything is published.
- 02
Read back, out loud
“Large dogs welcome” has to survive the follow-up: “a forty-kilo one?” If the answer wobbles, the listing waits.
- 03
The breakfast question
Can the dog lie under your table while you eat? Yes or no goes on the card. It is the question owners actually have.
- 04
Re-sniffed, regularly
Policies drift. We re-check on a rolling basis, and a hotel that springs a surprise fee is delisted the day we hear about it.
House position
The fee is the fee.
The fee is the fee.
If it’s €15 a night, we print €15 a night. If cleaning costs extra, that’s part of the fee, so we print that too.
The limit is the limit.
In kilos, or “none”. Never “at the manager’s discretion”, which is a coin toss you drive four hours to lose.
A no is fine. A surprise isn’t.
A hotel can keep dogs out of the bar. It can’t say so for the first time while you’re holding your bags.
“Pet fee may apply” is not a policy. It’s an ambush at the front desk, and it doesn’t get listed here.
City walks
Cities that walk well.
- AmsterdamVondelpark mornings, ferries across the IJ, and water bowls outside cafés by default.
- BerlinGrunewald is three thousand hectares of off-lead forest, twenty minutes from Mitte.
- LondonHampstead Heath first, then a pub with a biscuit jar on the bar.
- NiceThe Promenade at seven, the plage canine at Carras by ten.
- ViennaThe Prater’s long chestnut alleys; dogs ride the U-Bahn like commuters.
Fresh tracks
Start sniffing in Amsterdam.
Live catalog rows. Published policy cards roll out city by city, Amsterdam first.
Pack the lead.
We read the small print.
Travelling dogless this once? It happens. Hotels of Earth has every hotel on Earth. Don’t tell the dog.