![]() Whether I find a destination guide for the city I am visiting or not, the next places I look are the Go Pet Friendly travel search and the Bring Fido dog friendly city directory.īetween those two resources I usually find all of the dog friendly restaurants in an area. I like seeing the pictures and hearing the stories from actual humans instead of marketing mumbo-jumbo off of a website. The destination guides are like personal reviews on a specific location. I like to search the Go Pet Friendly Destination Guides first when looking for places I can eat with my dog. This is, by far, the most comprehensive, easy-to-use website I have used for locating and booking dog friendly hotels. You can book a hotel, and a competitive rate, right on the site. You can view all dog friendly hotels in a city as well as estimated rates, descriptions, reviews, and usually pet policy information. ![]() It’s like Expedia for dog friendly hotels. If I am not driving and merely want to see hotels near our final destination, or I want to see additional choices not returned by the PetsWelcome trip planner, I use the Bring Fido Website. You can enter your starting destination, final destination, and set your search parameters for hotels (distance from your route and distance apart along the route). The road trip planner is Google map based so it looks and feels familiar to most people. The PetsWelcome dog road trip planner is helpful when looking for dog friendly hotels along a driving route If I want to stay in hotels when we travel, there are several ways that I find them. I may adjust my previously determined stops based on stops I want to make along the way and how long I want to spend at these stops. I like to choose my own stop locations and frequency, so I look along the chosen route for dog friendly campgrounds, fun things to see, and places to visit (like National Parks I can enjoy with my dog). I keep doing this until I’ve estimated all of the stops between our start and finish destinations. ![]() When planning a dog friendly road trip, the first thing I do is use Google Maps to calculate driving times and find approximate stopping points.įor example, I only want to drive 8 hours the first day, because that is be about 11 total hours on the road with breaks, I keep picking destinations along our route and plugging them into the map until I find one that is about 12 hours from Seattle. I use these resource regularly to search for dog friendly hotels, dog friendly campgrounds, dog friendly restaurants and dog friendly trails. I thought I would share some of my favorite resources I use to plan our dog friendly travel itineraries. Needless to say, I travel a lot with my dogs, which means I’ve also spend thousands of hours online planning our dog friendly vacations. I flew to New York City with my Dachshund Gretel twice. I drove to Colorado with them to climb the highest 14er in the state – Mt. ![]() UPDTATED: Article originally published August 2014. I took them on a “tour” along the west coast in April 2022, driving over 3,000 miles and holding several Dachshund meetups along the way. I’ve taken them on a 4,000 mile road trip from Seattle, Washington to Phoenix, Arizona. I rarely travel without my Dachshunds Summit and Gretel.
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