Dog friendly?

Hello,

We would like to visit NOLA this fall with our black lab. Does anyone know of a nice place to stay that allows large dogs? Are there any pet friendly parks, pubs, etc.?

Thanks!

Dog friendly?

Try the Loews. The entire chain is dog-friendly and offers pet room service, etc.

Dog friendly?

There is Cabrini Park on Dauphine, between Gov. Nicholls %26amp; Barracks, aka the Dog Park. And, Cosimo%26#39;s Bar on Burgundy, @ Gov. Nicholls, seems very dog-friendly. Good luck!

It seems to me that just about every hotel in New Orleans is now pet-friendly, according to their websites. They may have limitations on the size of the pet, though, I don%26#39;t know.

I am looking for just the opposite, a place that isn%26#39;t pet friendly. I think that bed and breakfasts are probably less likely to allow pets. I am not a pet hater, I have a pet, but I personally think that they belong in kennels or staying with family members when their owners are on vacation. In my section of the country, it is pretty much unheard of to allow pets in a hotel, so I probably have some prejudice about it,. But in my opinion, if you are out roaming around the Quarter and visiting bars (where pets aren%26#39;t allowed) and you have to leave Fido in the hotel, if Fido has to take a leak or a poop, he%26#39;s not going to wait for you to come stumbling back from Bourbon Street to take him outside. I realize that people traveling with their pets have pet carriers and hopefully will keep them in the carriers, but I would bet that many people don%26#39;t want their pet caged up and allow them to run loose in the hotel room. I would imagine that over a period of time the smell or urine or feces will be pervasive in pet-friendly hotels and I sure can%26#39;t imagine that the housekeepers enjoy the extra cleaning duties that would be required in pet-friendly hotels. I recently read a review of a hotel on TA, and the review was pretty good except that the people encountered a big pile of dog poop in the hallway on their last day. That is not my idea of a place where I want to stay.

As I said, I am not a pet-hater, I have always had a dog or cat, but this is just my opinon.

Actually, most if not all pet-friendly hotels require that pets NOT be left unattended in the room. ';Unattended'; in general means left uncrated and out in the room when the owner is not there. If they do find a dog unattended, my experience has been that they generally call the local authorities that deal with animal regulations and have the animal seized. The owner is then kicked out of the hotel, and usually fined, in addition to whatever they have to pay to get their dog back. I am actively involved in dog shows and have heard of this happening more than once.

Aside from the possibility of having your dog seized, most owners would not leave a dog running loose in a hotel room because there is a VERY good chance that the dog will bolt when the maid opens the door to clean, and the owner is then left with a lost dog in an unfamiliar place. A pet owner who cares enough to bring a dog on vacation is not going to want that to happen.

Most dog owners are aware and responsible enough that they crate their dogs when leaving them in a hotel room.

I also seek out ';non-pet-friendly'; hotels when I travel solely because my family has some allergy issues with dogs and (in particular) cats. We had the misfortune of being in a room next door to a rather bored and constantly barking doberman at the Loews Coronado in San Diego last year. The hotel handled it well by simply upgrading us to a suite before then dealing with the dog%26#39;s owners, who should not have been out of the room without the dog for extended periods of time. (It wasn%26#39;t a big deal to me overall and I%26#39;m still a Loews fan!) I didn%26#39;t experience any allergy issues at the Loews, either, so I suspect it%26#39;s maybe a ';five star'; issue vs. the cleaning you%26#39;d find at a 2 or 3 star hotel.

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