Family Travel
Creature Comforts Dogs are living their best vacation lives thanks to pet-friendly hotels. BY LARRY OLMSTED
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UR PETS ARE GROWING MORE AND MORE
pampered, spending their days frolicking at doggy day cares, celebrating their birthdays at elaborate fêtes, and enjoying an array of petcentric designer accessories. It’s no surprise, then, that this coddling extends to vacations, a trend fueled recently by a pandemic road-trip boom and the concurrent popularity of private jets. Both make it much more convenient
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to travel with our four-legged friends, which has compelled more luxury hotels and resorts to accept pets than ever before. “Absolutely there is more interest in taking the dog,” says Virtuoso agency founder Michael Holtz, whose Havanese-poodle mix, Bagel, is a frequent traveler with her own Instagram account. “All the pandemic puppies are now part of the family,” he says. “A lot of times our clients
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Canine pampering at Toronto’s Bisha Hotel & Residences.
