What 5-star luxury at Adelaide’s first pet hotel will get your pooch
ADELAIDE’S multi-million dollar new pet hotel will offer four-poster beds, television and Skype so your beloved pooch can keep in touch while you’re holidaying interstate or overseas. Here’s a first look.
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PETS will be able to watch their favourite TV shows from the comfort of a four-poster bed at SA’s first luxury hotel for animals.
Work on the $9 million development is set to start at Adelaide Airport next month, providing a pets’ paradise that is anything but a dog’s life.
The hotel will include 32 luxury kennels with wrought iron dog beds, TVs and a private outdoor dog run.
Owners missing their animals while on holiday will be able to make Skype calls to their pets.
The hotel will offer “companion boarding”, where dogs and cats that are used to being together can be housed in pairs.
Guide Dogs SA will run the hotel, which is scheduled to open in August.
It will use profits from the venture to expand services for people with disabilities.
Guide Dogs SA CEO Kate Thiele said there would also be 168 standard kennels and 62 condos for cats.
A further 84 standard kennels will be added later.
Asked what the dogs will watch on their luxury screens, Ms Thiele laughed “probably Lassie and Harry’s Practice”.
While costings for a hotel stay are yet to be determined, she said market research had shown dog and cat owners were happy to spend “substantially more” on their fury family members than ever before.
“They are actively seeking a high standard of care for their precious pets,” she said.
“Situated as it will be, in the metropolitan area of Adelaide, (the hotel) will fulfil an increasing community need for an up-market, city-based pet accommodation, day care and training facility run by industry professionals.”
The hotel will be named Beau’s Personalised Pet Hotel after the first guide dog officially trained in Australia.
It will have indoor and outdoor enclosures, enabling pets to run and play in water fountains, and “personalised doggie day care” and training services.
The hotel will employ about 65 staff, including kennel attendants, groomers and trainers.
Anyone interested in working at the hotel should contact Guide Dogs SA on 8115 6050.