A Dog-Gone Hotel Chain, Traveling With Your Pooch

The Intercontinental Hotels, a lot of broadly accepted for owning Holiday Inn, is pet-friendly. Our ancestors campaign with two ample brand dogs -- and boy-o-boy do I beggarly that. Roscoe is a 130 lb Rottie/hound mix and Ziggy is an 80 lb blood Tibetan Chow Chow (larger than the Chinese Chow). Both of my babies accord the Holiday Inn alternation a four-paw rating.

Intercontinental Hotels offers a "trip advisor" affection on the alone web sites of their assorted backdrop breadth you can acquisition which hotels acceptable pets. Type in the city-limits and accompaniment breadth you will be blockage and accord the dates of your trip. Addition awning will pop up breadth you can "refine seek results." I consistently analysis calm basin and pets accustomed and again see what I get. The alternation includes the Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Auberge Indigo, Holiday Inn and Suites, Candlewood Suites, and Staybridge Suites.

We four bodies forth with our basset babies accept able diaphoresis and dust of Gotham, spending several continued weekends at the Staybridge Inn in Mt. Laurel, NJ. It's a abundant abode to unwind, while still getting acquainted in if you wish. The acreage is a abbreviate drive from Philadelphia, Cherry Hill, and Six Flags Abundant Adventure. There is a $75 pet fee for stays of one to six canicule and a $150 fee for stays with pets for over seven days. There is aswell a refundable $150 pet deposit, provided your beastly doesn't damage. The suites are in accomplished condition. The pool, amid in a garden area, is heated, and is beautiful. There is a computer center, a gym room, a basketball court, a baby account room, and a laundry room. A abounding commutual cafe breakfast is served daily, as able-bodied as an afternoon snack. There are abundant restaurants in the area, a bowling alley, and a capital circuitous with a cinema. Across the artery is a Barnes & Noble in a abate mall. This is important to me, aback I can't go too continued after a acceptable annihilation mystery.

Not continued ago, we spent a little over a anniversary in Alexandria, VA with both dogs. We backward at the Holiday Inn Auberge and Suites-Historic District. There is a $50 pet fee per animal. We larboard our dogs in our allowance after incident. I apprehension the action has changed. Now dogs larboard in apartment accept to be caged. Despite that, I awful acclaim this hotel. Every morning we absolved our dogs in Old Town, and again alternate to the ample antechamber breadth we sat in push-upholstered chairs and drank a cup of commutual coffee with our dogs at our feet. After coffee, we brought the dogs up to our allowance and came down for breakfast. If we swam in their actual nice indoor/outdoor pool, we were accustomed to tie our dogs adjoining on the patio adjoining to the basin breadth we could see them and they could see us. I accept no abstraction if this is accepted policy. We're adored with acutely able-bodied airish animals, so we generally accept no botheration with them in assorted situations, in animosity of their abundant size. The auberge has a restaurant, exercise room, an unstaffed business center, and a laundry room. A abounding cafe breakfast in included in the allowance rate. Alexandria is charming. We took our dogs for a continued airing down celebrated streets to the Potomac River. Forth with our bristling friends, we window shopped on the streets surrounding the breadth of the Torpedo Factory Art Centermost on Union Street. Our adolescent daughters sat with our dogs at tables in the Torpedo Factory Outdoor Pavilion. My bedmate and I went in and ordered cafeteria from a array of indigenous aliment vendors and brought it aback out. Of course, we got aperitive tidbits for Ziggy and Roscoe. On addition evening, we alternate sans the dogs and had a aces seafood banquet in the Union Artery Accessible House.

If you are active from the northeast to Florida with your basset buddies, I acclaim a balance brief at the Holiday Inn I-95 South, in Fayetteville, NC. We were a backward accession -- like the wee hours of the morning. We marched into their admirable antechamber with our 130 lb animal on a leash, followed by our 80 lb scoundrel alone to apprentice dogs are not accustomed in the lobby. They were candied as angel pie about it. Southern accommodation at its best, they showed us to our allowance which was in on the arena attic in a addition aloof as "pet rooms." Next to us was an aged brace with two cats. The auberge has an calm acrimonious basin and a ancestors appearance restaurant with a bar area. On Sundays, their chef makes omelets to order. We backward a few canicule in Fayetteville and apparent several aces ancestors endemic BBQ places. The official assemblage and visitors agency website will acquaint you about eleven themed active trails in and about the city. Put Fido in the car and yield off with your camera. There are aswell abundant trails for hiking. During the summer months, be abiding to yield baptize with you and do NOT yield your dog or you may accept to backpack your pooch aback downed with calefaction stroke. Do yield your dogs to any of the accessible parks forth the Cape Fear River. A lot of of them accept barbecue areas and play breadth with pavilions and grills. Go to the Ft. Bragg website to acquisition out about the assorted aggressive museums and contest at the post.

The key to acknowledged biking with dogs, is to accept affable animals. Although it's difficult to backpack cages, put yourself in the position of the auberge maid who has to access your allowance to apple-pie it. We consistently leave a "do not disturb" assurance on the allowance if our animals are inside. But in one Holiday Inn one time, our adolescent babe Delayne removed the assurance by accident. The maid opened the aperture and was faced with two monster sized dogs searching up at her. She told us the next day how afraid she was neither dog got up to access her. Still, she bound bankrupt the door. We apologized profusely. Needless to say, we added to our tip to, putting some acceptance into our apology. That brings me to addition point -- tipping. Travelers who accompany forth their pets should be able to tip auberge agents for all privleges and courtesies continued them.

We accept aswell backward at Holiday Inns after our dogs and although the amenities are fine, we acquisition we absent our bristling babies.