What Hotels and Holiday Parks Charge for a Dog: 9 Chains Compared
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Booking.com will happily tell you a hotel is pet-friendly. What it usually says next is "Pets are allowed on request. Charges may apply." Which charges, it does not say. You find out at the desk.
So we went through the published policies of the chains and holiday parks people actually use in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, and wrote down what they really charge. Checked September 2026.
What hotels charge for a dog
| Chain | Per dog, per night | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|
| Fletcher | €20 | Maximum two dogs, and only up to knee height. Not in the restaurant. |
| Motel One | €15 | One of the few chains with a single published price. CHF 25 in Switzerland, £15 in the UK. Assistance dogs free. |
| Van der Valk | €0 – €35 | Set per hotel, not per chain. Breda charges nothing, Palace Noordwijk €35. Most sit between €10 and €30. |
| Accor (ibis, Novotel, Mercure) | Per hotel | No chain-wide fee. Some Mercure hotels charge nothing at all; the hotel's own page is the only reliable source. |
| Hilton | Per hotel | Fee, weight limit and number of dogs are all set per property. |
Across European chains generally, €20 to €30 a night is the normal range. Switzerland and the UK run higher.
The pattern is the point. Only Motel One and Fletcher publish one number. Everyone else decides per building, which is why no comparison site can give you a straight answer either — including the one you are booking on.
What holiday parks charge for a dog
For most Dutch and Belgian dog owners this is the more useful table. A park means your own front door, a garden, and no lobby to walk your dog through at seven in the morning.
| Park | Per dog, per night | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|
| Landal | €5,75 | The cheapest clear price we found. €12 a night in Austria, €46,50 per stay in Denmark. One or two pets depending on the park. A flea collar and vaccination are required. |
| Center Parcs | €7 | One pet in a two-person cottage, two from a four-person cottage up. Not in hotel rooms, apartments or themed cottages. Caged animals are free. |
| Roompot | Per park and per period | Shown during booking, not before. A compulsory final cleaning fee comes on top unless it is already in the price. |
| EuroParcs | Per park | Maximum two pets per accommodation. Assistance dogs free. The surcharge appears once you add the pet to your booking. |
Five nights at Center Parcs with one dog is €35. The same five nights in a Fletcher hotel is €100. That difference buys a lot of dog food.
The rules that actually cost people money
The nightly fee is rarely the expensive part. These are.
Book the dog, don't just bring it
Every chain and park here wants the dog declared when you book. Center Parcs wants it at booking and on arrival. Roompot lets you add or remove a pet until the day before you travel. And at least one Van der Valk hotel charges €25 a night if you booked the dog in advance and €35 if you turn up with it — ten euros a night for a box you forgot to tick.
Size, not breed
Fletcher takes a maximum of two dogs, and only up to knee height. There is no weight in kilos anywhere in their rules, which means the person at the desk decides. If your dog is borderline, phone ahead rather than find out with your luggage in your hands.
The bed
Fletcher charges €25 for chemical cleaning if your dog has been on the bed, and another €25 if it fouls somewhere and you do not clear it up. Bring a blanket your dog already sleeps on and put it down before you unpack. It is the cheapest €25 you will ever save.
Cleaning on top of the fee
At Roompot the pet surcharge sits next to a compulsory final cleaning fee. Two separate lines, both yours.
Where your dog may not go
Restaurants, swimming pools, wellness areas and central facilities are the usual no. Landal states it plainly: not in the pools, not in the restaurants apart from a few exceptions, not in central facilities. Worth thinking through before you book a park whose selling point is the swimming paradise.
Alone in the room
Fletcher asks that your dog is not in the room while it is cleaned, and not left alone in it if it barks. Most hotels have some version of this. If your dog cannot be left, your dinner plans need to account for that.
Flying as well as staying? The airline fee is usually the bigger number of the two — somewhere between €50 and €200 each way on most European carriers. Our free Dog Flight Checker gives the fee and the bag or crate size for 27 airlines, so you can add the two together before you book anything.
How to check before you book
Whatever the tables say, the property decides. Three minutes of checking saves the argument at reception:
- Open the hotel's or park's own page, not the booking site's summary. The fee lives in the house rules.
- Search the page for the word "pet" or "huisdier" and read what comes after it, including the cleaning clause.
- Declare the dog in the booking itself, so it is on the confirmation you can show at the desk.
- If anything is unclear, one phone call settles it. Policies here change more often than airline rules do.
What to take with you
A hotel room is not your living room, and a dog that has its own bedding settles faster in a strange place. A blanket that already smells of home does most of the work, and it keeps your dog off a bed that costs €25 to clean.
Foldable travel dog beds on Amazon →
Going by car instead? Read Road Trips With Your Dog. Flying first, staying after? Work through the pet travel checklist before you book anything.
Checked September 2026. Fees and house rules change, and each hotel or park may set its own — always confirm on the property's own page before you book.