{"id":27801,"date":"2022-05-11T19:01:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T23:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=27801"},"modified":"2023-10-27T16:36:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T20:36:09","slug":"pet-free-hotels-or-petfreehotels-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2022\/05\/pet-free-hotels-or-petfreehotels-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Pet-Free Hotels (go to petfreehotels.com)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Y’all may love your pets, and that’s fine.\u00a0 However, for some folks (including my spouse), pet allergies are a real pain when it comes to booking hotel rooms.\u00a0 Here’s the problem: so\u2011called “pet-friendly” hotels will proudly advertise that fact, whereas hotels that don’t allow pets tend to bury that info in their policies page.\u00a0 Seems that, in the hotel business, the dictum “never tell the customer no<\/em>” is always in force — even when certain customers (again my spouse) would benefit by being told so up front.<\/p>\n

A brief aside.\u00a0 By law<\/a>, service dogs have free access to hotels, and hotels cannot ask guests with service dogs to pay room-cleaning fees.\u00a0 So, when one is searching for a hotel room, neither the absence of a pet-friendly badge nor the presence of a service-dog-only policy means much to an allergy sufferer.\u00a0 Nothing guarantees the searcher that any given room was not most-recently occupied by Fur-Flying Fido, shedding whatever bio-bits that Fido had a federally-protected right to shed and the hotel has no federal obligation to clean up.<\/p>\n

And the designation “pet-friendly” is itself ambiguous.\u00a0 Does it mean the hotel not only welcomes pets but charges a low cleaning fee (or none at all) when pets stay in your room?\u00a0 Or does it mean the hotel has no designated pet-free rooms?\u00a0 Or that the hotel makes no extra effort to clean rooms where pets have stayed?<\/p>\n

I have a sneaking suspicion (aren’t all suspicions of that kind?) that the extent to which a hotel room is cleaned has zero correlation with either the presence\/absence of a pet or the pet-friendliness of the hotel or the size of any room-cleaning fee.\u00a0 Those who know better may correct me if I’m wrong, but my guess is, you get what you get.\u00a0 And what you will get if the hotel has a no-pet policy or charges more than a nominal cleaning fee are guests who sneak their dogs and cats into their rooms anyway and then lie about it.<\/p>\n

So what can one do?\u00a0 My spouse and I were discussing this a while back when I was searching for (you guessed it) a pet-free hotel in Ohio.\u00a0 To make things easier in my searches, I had been bookmarking pet-free hotels in a folder named No Pet Hotels<\/em> and — so I didn’t waste time on them — pet-friendly hotels in a folder named Pet Hotels XXX<\/em>.<\/em>\u00a0 (Which is not<\/span> the name of an adult film, shame on you.)<\/p>\n

Wouldn’t it be easier, we said to each other, if there were a way to filter searches so that only pet-free hotels pop up?\u00a0 Inspired, I did a Google search for “pet free hotels” and while I got lots of results for hotels where pets stay free, I found no results for no-pet hotels.<\/p>\n

That got us to thinking (always a dangerous thing) that some website needs to fill the void.\u00a0 We could call it petfreehotels.com<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 So, in a giddy, anything-is-possible-on-the-internet moment, we decided to buy the petfreehotels.com domain and start building a database of hotels that publish a no-pets-allowed policy on their sites.<\/p>\n

The site is up and running now — and there are over 2000 hotels on the list.\u00a0 I add hotels to the list every month — I also receive suggestions from readers on hotels to add and\/or remove from the list.\u00a0 There are maps too!\u00a0 It’s been an interesting hobby, and hope some of you may find it valuable.\u00a0 Pet-Free Hotels<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Y’all may love your pets, and that’s fine.\u00a0 However, for some folks (including my spouse), pet allergies are a real pain when it comes to booking hotel rooms.\u00a0 Here’s the problem: so\u2011called “pet-friendly” hotels will proudly advertise that fact, whereas … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27801"}],"version-history":[{"count":45,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31428,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27801\/revisions\/31428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}