My spouse has dog and cat allergies. She can usually tell right away when the previous occupant of our hotel room had a pet. The problem is, finding hotels with no-pet policies is not easy. Pet-friendly hotels display a badge, but some hotels bury their pet policies or don’t even bother to publish a policy.
Worse yet, hotel booking sites let you check a “pet-friendly” box but — other than hilton.com — I have yet to see a “pet-free” box. So people with pet allergies have to visit one hotel site after another to find the “pets not allowed” statement. And as every traveler should know, you cannot rely on search engines, third-party sites like BringFido, or even Chat GPT (I keep trying it and it keeps failing!) 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 5000 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. I also exclude hotels that offer “pet-friendly rooms” even if they also claim to have pet-free rooms. The name of this site is Pet-Free Hotels.
Note that my listings trim the pompously long names of many hotels. To present results in the most readable form, I 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 5000-plus hotels in our database to see which brands dominate. Here is the breakdown: Marriott 25%, Choice 18%, IHG 16%, Wyndham 10%, Best Western 9%, Hilton 7%, Hyatt 1%, and others including independents 14% (see chart below). Of the pet-free Marriotts, 33% are Fairfield Inns. Of the pet-free Choice Hotels, 41% are Comfort Inns.
HOTELS IN THE PETFREEHOTELS.COM DATABASE
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.
Also, some areas (e.g., Rhode Island, Idaho, mountain states and agricultural regions) seem to have relatively few pet-free hotels. It’s not that I haven’t looked.
Lastly, big-city downtown hotels are often overtly pet-friendly or fail to post a pet policy at all — my guess is that they don’t want to say ‘no’ to high-end customers.
A final note (or two)…
This free service is offered by Craig H Collins — I maintain this site as a hobby and I am not affiliated with any hotel or travel company. The ads on the result pages return a few dollars a month, but I receive no other compensation. My efforts are mainly acknowledged via “cup of coffee” donations. Thank you.
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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. My 2026 site-wide review is complete — you can find the refresh date for each state at the bottom of the results table. I will start the review process all over again in February 2027!