Dog friendly accomodation in Ireland

Kajemo · 03-01-2017 03:49PM #1

Hi there,

just wondering does anyone have any suggestions? anywhere really in Ireland I'd be interested. I want to go away for a few nights and bring my two girls with me, so has anyone any experience?

thanks again.

coathanger · 03-01-2017 03:53PM

Kajemo wrote: »

Hi there,

just wondering does anyone have any suggestions? anywhere really in Ireland I'd be interested. I want to go away for a few nights and bring my two girls with me, so has anyone any experience?

thanks again.

Go to Northern Ireland, very dog friendly up there, stayed there in a dog friendly cottage with 3 dogs & ate out in different restaurants / hotels every day. Great walks & scenery too. We hope to go back this year !

sillysmiles · 03-01-2017 03:58PM

coathanger - any pubs/restaurants /walks you'd recommend?

woofadvisor has a list of hotels and on bookings.com you can select a pet friendly option. But for 2 dogs I think you'd be better with a cottage than a hotel as I tihnk a few hotels are one dog only, or it must be a small dog etc.

irish_goat · 03-01-2017 04:07PM

coathanger wrote: »

Go to Northern Ireland, very dog friendly up there, stayed there in a dog friendly cottage with 3 dogs & ate out in different restaurants / hotels every day. Great walks & scenery too. We hope to go back this year !

Just a note on this, Derry isn't particularly dog friendly. I'd always advocate Derry as a tourist spot but there's not many pubs that allows dogs in, unfortunately.

I have heard there's plenty of dog friendly accommodation elsewhere in the north though.

km991148 · 03-01-2017 04:26PM

Irish landmark trust do dog friendly self catering places - only ones I've used.

B&Bs and hotels seem very mixed - most of them dont allow it (form my experience), or if they do its not in the bedroom (One place wanted me to use a kennel out the back where the bins and kegs were kept!)

The problem is - if you want to go for a stroll and a drink/ lunch etc - unlike the UK and NI - there are a lot of places that will not allow this at all (but you probably know this anyway as no doubt you cant do this at home anyway!)

coathanger · 03-01-2017 07:25PM

sillysmiles wrote: »

coathanger - any pubs/restaurants /walks you'd recommend?

woofadvisor has a list of hotels and on bookings.com you can select a pet friendly option. But for 2 dogs I think you'd be better with a cottage than a hotel as I tihnk a few hotels are one dog only, or it must be a small dog etc.

Beech hill hotel Derry, Marine hotel Ballycastle, inn on the coast portrush.
If u r on Facebook, have a look at dogs ni page, very helpful & loads of info.

03-01-2017 08:02PM

Kajemo wrote: »

Hi there,

just wondering does anyone have any suggestions? anywhere really in Ireland I'd be interested. I want to go away for a few nights and bring my two girls with me, so has anyone any experience?

thanks again.

There's a dog friendly hotel in galway I've heard great things about

http://www.thetwelvehotel.ie/pet-friendly

Knine · 03-01-2017 09:28PM

I often stay at Ballinwillin House in Mitchelstown, Co. Cork. It is an organic deer/wild boar farm. Dogs welcome in the rooms & a short walk into the town for dinner.

cocker5 · 03-01-2017 10:24PM

Kajemo wrote: »

Hi there,

just wondering does anyone have any suggestions? anywhere really in Ireland I'd be interested. I want to go away for a few nights and bring my two girls with me, so has anyone any experience?

thanks again.

In 2016 we did two doggie holidays one in Galway and one in Baltimore cork - both accommodations super dog friendly , surrounding areas (pubs etc) all dog friendly.. great local walks both trips took ferry to surrounding islands - no probs we had a ball.

Here they are! Both pretty cheap but super dog friendly!

http://www.renvyle.com/

http://www.harbourapartments.com/

Do it it's great craic!

Wexy86 · 04-01-2017 01:05AM

I stayed in Castlemartyr over the summer with my little fella, they accept up to two dogs in the pet friendly rooms, you just have to ring to book, think it was an extra €50 per night for for the dog - would highly recommend

Kajemo · 04-01-2017 10:35AM

Thanks everyone for all the replies, its definetly something I want to do!! have lots of suggestions to check out now, great!!

Zapperzy · 04-01-2017 10:46AM

Stayed in a house called dustys place in donegal years ago with dogs. Great place for exploring inishowen peninsula. They've a website if you just Google dustys place donegal. The enclosed garden kept two escape artist dogs safely enclosed and plenty of local beaches and dog walking spots.

Springwell · 04-01-2017 06:02PM

I've stayed in some of the Landmark Trust places - would recommend them, often had 2-3 more dogs than offically allowed on agreement with the house manager/booking manager. They like well trained gundogs it seems

pilly · 04-01-2017 06:07PM

Stayed in a place called Eyries in West Cork Christmas before last, dog friendly cottage off Sky Cottages, beautiful place. They had their own dog next door. However in terms of going out for drink or meal I haven't found anywhere in Ireland dog friendly really. Just a case of leaving them at home a few hours.

pawrick · 04-01-2017 06:13PM

When I was last looking most of the places in areas I wanted to stay in seemed to have weight restrictions for dogs (limits of 40kg in many). Mine last time i weighted her was 43Kg and is still bulking out.

pilly · 04-01-2017 06:16PM

pawrick wrote: »

When I was last looking most of the places in areas I wanted to stay in seemed to have weight restrictions for dogs (limits of 40kg in many). Mine last time i weighted her was 43Kg and is still bulking out.

Really? I've never heard of that. Was that in hotels?

As an aside, I seen a huge bulldog get on a flight from Toronto to Dublin the other day, don't know where he was during the flight cause never heard a peep out of him! He either went in the hold or he was a very well behaved dog.

edeldonlon · 04-01-2017 06:20PM

This list might be a good start

http://www.independent.ie/life/travel/ireland/bowwow-factor-30-pet-friendly-places-to-stay-in-ireland-35241546.html

pawrick · 04-01-2017 06:29PM

Cant recall exactly the places but was looking at a mix of hotels and guesthouses from Clare to Cork and the 40Kg max seemed to appear in fine print in the ones i looked at online, perhaps if I called they would have been lax on the rules. Ended up leaving the dog in kennels and had a Cat/Parrot sitter (friend) for the rest of the pets as it was only a long weekend break and I don't trust other people to take her out on a lead due to her strength.

Knine · 04-01-2017 10:39PM

I stay in a lot of places more often then the average pet owner & I have a dog easily over 40kg. I have never had any issue with him because of his size

kylith · 04-01-2017 11:04PM

I stayed in a place called Rosturk Woods on Clew Bay a few years ago, which was lovely with great walks.

Dial Hard · 05-01-2017 04:40PM

pawrick wrote:

When I was last looking most of the places in areas I wanted to stay in seemed to have weight restrictions for dogs (limits of 40kg in many). Mine last time i weighted her was 43Kg and is still bulking out.

They're hardly going to whip out the scales when you arrive. Go for it.

Muppet Man · 05-01-2017 10:16PM

Stayed in dunmore house just outside clonakilty with my wife and my jacker. Really beautiful spot. Privately owned hotel, with Free private parking, free wifi, free pets. Beautful views across onto inchadony strand, very good food and a lovely bar. There was a "resident" jacker roaming freely around the bar and reception area. So very very relaxed towards dogs. They get weddings most weekends as far as I can tell. About 5k South west of clonakilty.

Also rented a house in lahinch one year which was pet friendly.

Muppet man

cocker5 · 06-01-2017 07:35AM

pilly wrote: »

Stayed in a place called Eyries in West Cork Christmas before last, dog friendly cottage off Sky Cottages, beautiful place. They had their own dog next door. However in terms of going out for drink or meal I haven't found anywhere in Ireland dog friendly really. Just a case of leaving them at home a few hours.

Was in Baltimore cork in October - all pubs were dog friendly eveb the ones serving food ðŸ˜

CrowdedHouse · 06-01-2017 10:00AM

We stayed here a few years back https://www.kylemore-pass-hotel-connemara.com/

Dogs were welcome, some of the rooms had direct access outside, the dogs were allowed into the bar too.

Close to Connemara National Park and Kylemore Abbey (dogs allowed in here too)

slavetothegrind · 08-01-2017 03:58PM

https://www.tripadvisor.ie/VacationRentalReview-g651977-d4288592-Achill_Shore_View-Achill_Island_County_Mayo_Western_Ireland.html

nice part of the world!

Great for walks

gerrymolloy · 10-03-2017 04:22PM

Hi Kajemo

Have you tried WoofAdvisor? They have hundreds of dog-friendly places to stay in Ireland, mainly hotels, guest houses, B&Bs. Depends on which part of the country you are looking at but they have loads all along the wild atlantic way.

FrostyJack · 11-03-2017 02:53PM

CrowdedHouse wrote: »

We stayed here a few years back https://www.kylemore-pass-hotel-connemara.com/

Dogs were welcome, some of the rooms had direct access outside, the dogs were allowed into the bar too.

Close to Connemara National Park and Kylemore Abbey (dogs allowed in here too)

I stayed there too, nice place.

cocker5 · 09-05-2018 09:01AM

Hi All,

Looking for your help (again) so Cody just turned 13 a few weeks ago so we brought him to Baltimore Cork for 3 nights (3rd time here) and we had a great time. my only issue is its 4 hours by car from where we live and as he has HD a 4 hour car drive isn't ideal for him. been to Renvyle numerous times with him now.. again a 4 hour drive ish

so this brings me on to our next trip looking to take him away again October bank holiday weekend.. preferably max (ish) 2 hours from Dublin.

now i just dont need a pet friendly hotel etc (as from experience most say pet friendly when in reality they are not... dogs not allowed anywhere in the hotel except your room etc)

so really what im looking for is somewhere i can bring with with some nice walks / things to do.. plus the local pubs are somewhat dog friendly (not asking for too much there

)

any suggestions?

TIA

Wildcard7 · 09-05-2018 12:18PM

Self catering cottage ok?

https://www.sykescottages.co.uk/search.html?polygon=818&location=&location_long=&locationdist=10&num_sleeps=2&num_pets=2&startlabel=&start=&duration=7&fuzziness=3&rating=-1&property_type=-1&beds_single=-1&num_bathrooms=-1&distance_to_sea=-1&min_price=&max_price=&coordinates=&sort=&show=&page=&search_brand=1&_hsearch=1805095af2d8d862088

Moznips · 10-05-2018 07:46AM

We've stayed in Blanchville Demise just outside Kilkenny for the last four years with our kids and dog. It's a great spot. lots of land for our dog to go sniffing on and kids love being on a farm (they keep cows).

cocker5 · 10-05-2018 01:06PM

Thanks All - i am also looking for details of where i can bring him IE local pubs that are dog friendly etc

Dog friendly accomodation in Ireland

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