Traveling with Your Pet: The AAA Petbook

Most of the book reads like any standard travel book. Arranged alphabetically by state, you'll find hotels in both small towns and major cities, with a list of icons showing what amenities you can expect. Instead of descriptions of restaurants or spas, you'll find a sentence or two outlining pet policies. Here, a careful reading can save you a bundle. Although many hotels are happy to house animals, surcharges range anywhere from $5 total to $100 per night and, in some cases, only particular species of small size are accepted. This section cautions readers to confirm the current policy in advance. The last thing you want to discover upon arrival with your two labs is that the policy was changed the day before you made the reservations.

Other than these listings, information is relatively limited, but can be helpful to newcomers to the world of pet vacations. Contact information is provided for several airlines, as well as emergency animal health-care suggestions and advice for buying safe traveling equipment. Dog owners will appreciate the list of off-leash dog parks throughout the U.S., which includes rules for national parks and forests. In fact, with all its practical information, you may find this book puts your regular pet sitter out of a job! --Jill Lightner

Book Description
The PetBook is a comprehensive guide to traveling with pets, providing practical information about traveling with animals by car or plane. It features more than 10,000 AAA Rated lodgings, a list of emergency clinics throughout the US and Canada, national parks that accept pets and other pet-friendly points of interest, such as dog parks throughout North America. One color interior pages are filled with graphics, photos and sidebar type graphics. Lodging listed are filled with AAA proprietary information gathered by AAA Tourism Editors such as specific pet policies, restrictions, amenities, rates, driving directions and more.