Customer Reviews

Pets Welcome: A Guide to Hotels, Inns, and Resorts That Welcome You and Your Pet: America 's South Edition (Pets Welcome Southwest: A Guide to Hotel's, Inns and Resorts That Welcome You and Your Pet)

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This book suffers from the flaw of being written in the painfully florid style of pr travel pieces. I am also a little suspicious that the writers do not have a critical word about a single one of these inns, hotels and motels that take dogs. Did they actually go to any of them?? I have my doubts. Aware of at least one gross factual error -- in review of a B&B in Chapel Hill, NC, it suggests that you visit the "nearby" Great Smoky Mountins, which are at least three hours' drive away. I have not actually tried to go to any of the listed places with my dog, so I cannot say if the work is entirely fictional. However, I think this book is an excellent concept and look forward to seeing better editing and fact-checking in future editions.

I bought Pets Welcome, but after using it I have the impression that the authors didn't travel at all to write it. We traveled to inns that didn't reflect the descriptions at all. The Fish's reviews are essentially taken from the brochures, with perhaps one or two additional facts. I can read a brochure or check a web site for the innkeeper's perspectives, but I depend on travel guides for firsthand experiences of the authors. I was dissapointed with Pets Welcome guide because it merely pointed me in the right direction without giving me any insight.

Having tried three of the "recommendations" and living close to a fourth, I can only say this work is more fantasy than fact. We were turned away from one "pet-friendly" place when they found out that our small Boston Terrier was not a cat.