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About Open for Dogs and Dogfriendly

The Kennel Club and Dogfriendly have joined forces to promote the Kennel Club's Open for Dogs campaign and Awards.

Open for Dogs is the Kennel Club's campaign to break down barriers for dogs and their owners. It actively encourages more businesses to be dog friendly and to open their doors to people and their dogs.

Dogfriendly are powering the Open for Dogs website and database, where you will find the most detailed information on dog friendly places available anywhere in the UK today.

There are more than 2,000 hotels registered on the Open for Dogs website, who will welcome you and your dogs, more than 1,000 pubs to visit with your dogs and details on 1,800 Dog Friendly beaches.

Anybody can search Open for Dogs for details of dog friendly businesses, however as a full member you will be able to access even more detail on:

  • Dog Friendly Hotels
  • Dog Friendly Self Catering
  • Dog Friendly Camping and Caravan Sites
  • Dog Friendly Pubs
  • Dog Friendly Beaches
  • Dog Friendly Days Out

Our database is also the most up to date and detailed. The Dogfriendly team telephone every hotel and every pub on the database once a year to ensure that they are still dog friendly and that the details we hold are correct.

As a member of Open for Dogs, powered by Dogfriendly, you can search the database by town or county and you will be presented with dog friendly hotels in that area. You will also find details on how many dogs they will accept, whether or not you can leave your dogs alone in the room, how much you will be charged if you take your dog and - of course - whether or not the owner of the hotel has a dog!.

You can also search our pub database by Town or County and find details on pubs in the area that will welcome you and your dogs.

Upgrading to become a full member of Dogfriendly could not be easier. One year's membership is only £5.99.

Simply click here and complete the short application form and we will email you your user name and password. You can then start enjoying the benefits of Dogfriendly straight away.

Please remember to give us feedback on the site and places that you have visited!

If you want to find out more about Dogfriendly, you can also read our Frequently Asked Questions








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