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The Perfect Dog Friendly Hotel in Salcombe

A waggy-tailed welcome

Our beachside location, combined with a dog-loving team, makes a perfect pooch paradise. With days of endless zoomies, woodland walks and frisbee fetch, your dog can fully rest and recharge at the end of the day with the smell of the sea offering a tantalising taste of tomorrow's adventures.

Being a dog-friendly hotel is what sees guests and their furry friends return to South Sands time and time again. Alongside our comfortable dog-friendly rooms, we offer welcome gifts on arrival to ensure your four-legged friend knows they're on holiday too.

For extra treats or a top-up on essentials, our dog sales cabinet offers a range of toys and Ruff and Tumble dog robes and leads.

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Dog Friendly Rooms

With the beach on our doorstep and dog-friendly walks all around, we're the perfect location to bring your four-legged friend. We will welcome your canine companion with their own towel, bowl to use during their stay and a little complimentary treat! We’re not just dog-friendly, we’re dog-loving. 

As a huge part of your family, your dog can join you throughout the hotel and accompany you for every meal in our designated doggy-friendly sea view area of the restaurant. 

We have many dog-friendly rooms available in our Optimist, Enterprise, Yawl and Dragon categories. To ensure there is plenty of space for all, we allow a maximum of 2 dogs in inland and partial sea view rooms and 3 dogs in our sea view rooms. Please note not all our rooms are dog-friendly and sometimes a dog friendly room may not be available. Please call for details.

 

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Dog Policy

To ensure the best South Sands experience for you, your dog, and all our guests, we have a few South Sands dog policies. Even though these policies are there for the safety and comfort of your pooch, we require a human to read, understand and sign our South Sands Dog Policy document on arrival.

To protect the bed linen from potential sandy paws and muddy bellies, we ask dogs to remain off bed linen and other soft furnishings. A charge of £19.50 per dog, per night will be applied for dogs staying in hotel rooms or beach suites. A penalty will be charged if your dog is allowed on bed linen or in the event of a dog fouling in the room. This covers the replacement and/or cleaning of furnishings.  

If you have arrived with a dog without prior arrangement and we do not have a dog friendly room available there will be a £50 extra charge for deep cleaning the room.

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On the Beach

Please note South Sands beach is only dog-friendly from October until May. During the other months, restrictions apply.

For the Summer months, take a trip to neighbouring North Sands that welcomes dogs all year round. Other dog-friendly beaches in the area include East Portlemouth beaches on the other side of the estuary, Soar Mill Cove, South Milton Sands and Slapton Sands.

There are plenty of scenic coastal and woodland walks for your dog-walking adventures too.

 

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Around the Hotel

We're not just a dog-friendly hotel, we're a dog-loving hotel which is why dogs on leads can join their owners anywhere, including the bar, terrace and in a spacious, designated sea view area in the restaurant.

While we ask for dogs to remain off the sofas and furniture, soft dog blankets are provided from reception on request. We do not provide dog beds, so please bring your furry friend's bed with you to ensure a comfy stay.

Food is a big part of any South Sands stay, however we cannot provide food for any of our four-pawed guests. We ask owners to bring their dog's favourite food with them. Treats can be purchased from reception.

Relaxed dog policies may apply to service dogs. Please speak to reception.

For pup-dates and camera-confident canines, follow our designated South Sands doggies Instagram, and don't forget to tag us in any paw-fect pictures.  

Dog Friendly Stay Reviews

  "Lovely hotel in a fantastic location"

Lovely hotel in a fantastic location overlooking South sands beach, Salcombe. The hotel is well appointed, with friendly staff, and they made us feel very welcome with our 5 month old puppy. The restaurant serves excellent breakfast, and we also enjoyed dinner on both nights of our stay. Parking is free to guests, and just across the road. Salcombe is a very scenic parts of South Devon, situated on an estuary, with plenty of boating and water activities, along with lovely coastal walks. This is our third stay, and we hope to return again.

Adrian Farmer  |  11 / 2025
  "First wedding anniversary celebration"

A beautiful hotel, dog friendly, with first class food served by polite kind staff who nothing was too much trouble for. Situated on the beach at South Sands, has a ferry service every half hour to transport you to the first class area of Salcombe. Highly recommend this homely hotel for any family meet up or romantic stay for 2.

TripAdvisor Review - Dream726552  |  10 / 2025
  "The hotel lists as dog friendly and really is"

Great stay
So pleased that we chose the South Sands hotel. The comfortable room was great , we had a Juliette balcony overlooking the bay which was wonderful. The hotel lists as dog friendly and really is. There was good quality food in the restaurant which overlooks the water and you are unlikely to leave hungry. The location is great, I am not sure I would fancy the local roads in the height of season though. You can have a pleasant walk into Salcombe, or get the small ferry that runs approx every 30 mins. The staff were so welcoming, helpful and friendly - thank you for making our stay so memorable.
I would happily return.

TripAdvisor Review - E7604AMiang  |  10 / 2025
  "A wonderfully dog friendly hotel."

A wonderful one-night out of season stay
We just stayed at the South Sands Hotel on a wet, miserable typical January day but it sure helped beat those January blues. A wonderfully dog friendly hotel. we really appreciated the little touches such as towels for dogs in the reception and the bowls and towels in the room. The staff were all very friendly and we upgraded our room to one with a sea view on arrival which was lovely - the comfiest bed and pillows with a beautiful bathroom. The restaurant food was excellent as was breakfast, our only complaint is we could not stay another night!

TripAdvisor Review - Camper65344208562  |  01 / 2025
  "Excellent, will definitely be back"

Excellent, will definitely be back,
Great service, staff were amazing. Its a really lovely hotel that was dog friendly and so accommodating. Food and drinks were spot on, nothing was too much trouble. Rooms were clean and tidy. Parking on site too. It is ideally placed next to South Sands beach with a walk into town or jump on the ferry for a picturesque ride to Salcombe.

TripAdvisor Review - bengF6128FM  |  10 / 2024
  "Even Santa Paws visited the dogs on Christmas day"

We went to stay the first time for Christmas which was excellent.The staff were incredibly welcoming and couldn’t do enough for us. As they claim they are very dog friendly.There are wicker baskets at the door with clean dog towels and one to put your dirty towels in. Even Santa Paws visited the dogs on Christmas day.The food was of a good standard and the chef Jonathan was delightful although I think the wine list should be expanded to include countries other than French as its very limited at the moment. Sufficient to say we have booked again for next year

Kathandfred Williams  |  01 / 2025
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