Are you and your dog inseparable? Here are tips for taking vacations together.
- Take a pet-traveling crate. A cage or crate is ideal if the dog sleeps in the hotel room.- Pack dog food and bowl, long and short leashes, a rawhide or chew bone, a brush, flea and tick spray, and a blanket. Keep water handy and offer it frequently.
- Ask hotel management where to walk your dog; always pick up after your dog. You must be courteous if you want to keep privileges.
- Don't leave the dog in the car, which can heat up quickly.
- Don't leave your dog alone in the hotel room. Even the most placid dog may panic and destroy a rug or curtains. Even in a crate, the dog may make noise and disturb other lodgers.
- Have the dog securely on leash before opening a car door or hotel room.
- Be sure your pet wears an identification tag that includes an emergency phone number that can be reached while you are on the road. - Debra Warner, Orange County Register
Best resorts
The top U.S. resort hotels, according to a poll of readers of Andrew Harper's Hideaway Report, a very upscale newsletter (for subscriptions - at $125 - write Box 300, Whitefish, Mont. 59937):
1. The Boulders, Carefree, Ariz.
2. The Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.
3. Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel, Calif.
4. Ritz-Carlton, Naples, Fla.
5. The Cloister, Sea Island, Ga.
6. Ventana, Big Sur, Calif.
7. The Lodge at Koele, Lanai, Hawaii
8. Inn at Little Washington, Washington, Va.
9. Auberge du Soleil, Rutherford, Calif.
10. The Point, Upper Saranac Lake, N.Y.