nineteen things people ask us before they book a week
Straight answers to questions about traveling with a dog
These are the questions about traveling with a dog that come up in almost every message we get, answered the way we would answer them on the phone.
Trips on this site run $1,180 to $3,120 per person, and you pay us nothing.
Nothing here counts you and nothing follows you off the page. One word can be stored, and only the word yes, so this slip stops coming back. The whole of what that means.
Every question below came from a real message. We have grouped them four ways: what the week costs and who pays us, how much of the week your dog is actually in, what we do not handle, and what happens after you write in. If yours is missing, send it to alongside@travelpetadventures.com and we will add it once we have answered it properly.
What the week costs and who pays us
Do I pay Travel Pet Adventures a fee?
No. Not a booking fee, not a planning fee, not a deposit to us. The property or the owner pays us a commission after your week is over, which is why our figure and the figure you would find on your own are the same number.
What does the per person price include?
Accommodation for the nights listed, any fee the property charges for your dog, and the specific items named on the trip page. It does not include your fuel, your food, or anything you add once you are there.
Why is there no total price on the page?
Because the total depends on your dates, your party size and how many nights you take. The page figure is the lowest per person price we have booked that week at, and a written figure for your actual dates takes two to four working days.
Do prices change through the year?
Yes, and often by a lot. The same cabin week can sit near $1,180 in March and near the top of its range in July. If your dates are flexible by even two weeks, say so and we will price both.
Is there a fee for the dog on top?
Sometimes. Where a property charges a nightly or per stay amount for a dog, we fold it into the per person figure so you are not surprised at checkout. Where it is charged locally and cannot be prepaid, the trip page says so in plain words.
What about a second dog?
Most of the eleven allow two. A few allow one and that is a hard limit set by the owner, not by us. Tell us the number in your first message and we will only quote you places that can take it.
How do I pay, and to whom?
Directly to the property or its booking office, on their terms, with their confirmation. We never take a card number and there is no payment form anywhere on this site.
Can you match a lower figure I found elsewhere?
We do not play that game. If you find the same week for less, take it. Two identical listings at different figures usually means one of them adds fees later, and if they are genuinely identical then the cheaper of the two deserves your booking.
How much of the week your dog is actually in
What do the three access levels mean?
All of it means nothing on the itinerary shuts a dog out: self catering, open ground, your own car. Almost all of it means one or two named items are closed, and we name them before you book. Part of it means whole days are closed, usually city days, and those trips carry the lowest figures on the site.
Why would I book a part of it week at all?
Because the rest of it is worth the trade and the figure reflects it. People who book those weeks usually travel as two adults and split the closed day between them. Others use it as a quiet day at the rental.
Are the closed items ever a surprise?
They should never be. Every closed item is written on the trip page and repeated in your written figure. If you arrive somewhere and find a restriction we did not name, tell us and we will get it corrected on the page.
What we do not handle
Do you move a dog anywhere without me?
No. This office does not move an animal, ever, by any means. Nothing here is put in a hold, a van or anybody else's care. Every week in the catalog is one you drive yourself with the dog in your own car, and that is the whole arrangement.
Do you help with shots or a health check before we go?
No. That belongs entirely with your own veterinarian and this office does not touch it, advise on it, or hold any record of it. See what belongs with your veterinarian.
Can you arrange someone to look after the dog on the closed day?
No. We do not arrange care of any kind for your dog at any point, and we do not keep a list of people who do. On a part of it week the closed day is yours to plan.
Do you handle flights, ferries or moving a dog somewhere?
No. All eleven trips are inside the United States and reachable by road in your own vehicle, which is the entire premise of this site. We do not move animals and we are not that kind of company.
Do you sell insurance?
No, and we do not advise on it either.
Do you show reviews or star ratings?
No. We have asked ourselves whether we could publish anything honest here and the answer is that not one honest review exists on this site because we have never collected one, and inventing them is what everybody else does. Judge us on whether the written figure matches what you pay.
Do you own or run any of these properties?
No. We are an independent office that arranges bookings. Every property is owned and operated by somebody else, and their rules are theirs.
After you write in
Anything not covered here goes to alongside@travelpetadventures.com, or call +1 (952) 897-4126 and ask for the desk. Corrections to a page you have already been quoted from go to underfoot@travelpetadventures.com. Travel Pet Adventures Bookings LLC, 5601 Green Valley Drive, Suite 240, Bloomington, MN 55437.
How long until somebody replies?
A message sent on a working day is read the same working day. A written figure with real dates on it takes two to four working days, because we contact the property rather than guess.
What should my first message contain?
Your dates or a range, how many people, how many dogs, and which of the eleven caught your eye. That is enough for us to start. Everything else we will ask.
If I need to cancel, what happens?
The property's terms apply, not ours, and we set them out in writing before you commit. The short version is on cancellation terms, and if a term looks unreasonable to us we will say so before you book rather than after.