My spouse has dog and cat allergies. She can usually tell right away when the previous occupant of our hotel room had a pet in the room. The problem is, finding hotels with no-pet policies is not easy. Pet-friendly hotels display a badge, but pet-free hotels often bury their pet policies on FAQ pages. Some hotels don’t even publish a policy.
Worse yet, hotel review sites let you check a “pet-friendly” box but I have yet to see a “pet-free” box. This means people with pet allergies have to visit one hotel site after another to find that magic “no pets allowed” statement. And as every traveler knows, you cannot rely on search engines, third-party sites, or even Chat GPT (I asked it and it failed!) to report accurate pet policies — the best source of pet policy info is the hotel’s own website.
PetFreeHotels.com is the one site that takes the time to read the small print in hotel pet policies. My goal is to make it easy for people like my spouse and you to find a pet-free hotel in popular U.S. destinations, with over 3000 verified pet-free hotels!
Who gets listed here?
I only list hotels (not B&Bs or vacation rentals) that post a property-wide “no pets” policy on their official website. If I can’t find such a policy on their site, or if the wording is unclear or contradictory, I will not list that property here.
My listings currently include a number of self-described “vacation clubs” — but after reading about their membership requirements, I may be deleting these sites from my database. I invite users of the site to weigh in on this.
Hotels that offer “pet-friendly rooms” are excluded from our list even if they also claim to have pet-free rooms. The name of this site is Pet-Free Hotels, not Take-Your-Chances Hotels.
Note that our listings take license with the pompously long names of many hotels. To present our results in the most readable form, we may delete fluff words such as “Suites”, “Collection”, “by [Hotel Brand]” and the like. Those words add little to your ability to identify the hotel, its service level or its location — they simply take up an impressive amount of space, which most screens don’t have.
Which chains have the most pet-free locations?
I recently scanned the 3500-plus hotels in the Pet-Free Hotels database to see which brands dominate. Here is the breakdown: Marriott 26%, Choice 18%, IHG 16%, Wyndham 10%, Best Western 9%, Hilton 7%, Hyatt 1%, and others (including independents) 13%.
Of the pet-free Marriotts, 31% are Fairfield Inns, 28% are Courtyards, 14% are SpringHill Suites and the remaining 27% are other brands such as Marriott and Sheraton.
Of the pet-free Choice Hotels, 41% are Comfort Inns, 19% are Quality Inns, 11% are Super 8s, and the remaining 29% include brands such as Sleep Inn, Country Inn and Cambria.
Note that these figures reflect both the availability of pet-free hotels and my ability to find them and verify their pet policies.
Which brands are least likely to be pet-free?
I can’t vouch for all the properties in these brands, but based on their internet presence and marketing materials, your chance of finding a pet-free hotel in the following brands is pretty slim:
AloftCandlewood SuitesDruryEmbassy SuitesFairmontHampton Inn * Hilton Garden InnHome2SuitesHomewood SuitesHyatt * IndigoKimptonLa QuintaMainStay Suites * Motel 6Red RoofSonestaStaybridge SuitesTownePlace SuitesTru by HiltonWestinWoodspring Suites
There are a number of Hampton Inns, Hyatts and MainStay Suites in our listings — you might double-check whether their pet-free status is still in effect before you book.
Lastly, I’ve found that big-city downtown hotels tend to be either pet-friendly or fail to post a pet policy — maybe they don’t want to be seen as saying ‘no’ to their high-end customers.
A final note (or two)…
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Petfreehotels.com would not be very useful if its listings were out-of-date. So not only do I search for more pet-free hotels in more locations, but I periodically review all the existing hotels, state-by-state. I did the most recent whole-site review in the summer of 2025 — the refresh date for each state appears at the end of its results table.