Animal-friendly hotels in the Caribbean

Just like in every other southern holiday region homeless dogs and cats stray also in the Caribbean in every vacation spot, attracted by the abundant edibles in the garbage and the friendliness of animal-loving tourists. This inevitably leads to conflicts with the tourist industry being afraid of losing business; also because not every tourist is an animal lover. The common practice to reduce the numbers of animals by mass poisonings before and after the season can’t be carried out unnoticed anymore that easily nowadays because tourists have a growing awareness and are better informed as a result of the work of animal welfare organizations and many of them don’t agree with such practices. In some places hotels, restaurants, cafés, bars and other touristic enterprises have realized that a great number of their customers are animal-loving people and, searching for better solutions for the problems caused by too large populations of stray animals, they now support the work of the local animal welfare organizations.

Here we want to introduce to you hotels, restaurants and other touristic (or related) enterprises that support animal welfare on their island (according to the local animal welfare organizations). In some hotels guests can even vacation with their pets. We try to constantly update this site but we depend on your help: If you know an animal-friendly hotel or other enterprise that is not listed here or, on the other hand, find that a place listed here doesn’t qualify, please let us know by sending an email to gorskiisabel@t-online.de. If you spend your vacation in one of the hotels or visit one of the places mentioned here let the management or owner know why you chose the place and write a comment on . If, on the other hand, you witness unfriendly or abusive behaviour towards animals in your hotel or the restaurants and bars you visit let them know that you will neither return nor recommend these places and write a review on accordingly. This is the best way to make sure that the change of attitude in the tourist industry the first examples of which we introduce to you here will continue to grow. Thank you very much!

Click through to the island/region which interests you the most:

Anguilla
Antigua
Aruba
Bahamas
Barbados
Bonaire
British Virgin Islands
Cayman Islands
Curacao
Dominican Republic
Grenada
Jamaica
Martinique
Nevis
Puerto Rico
Saba
St. Croix
St. John
St. Kitts
St. Lucia
St. Thomas
St. Vincent & the Grenadines

Anguilla

The Anguilla Animal Rescue Foundation https://www.aarf.ai/ get support from:

Hotels

Cap Juluca

Four Seasons Private Residences

CuisinArt Golf Resort & SPA Anguilla (Pets allowed!)

Restaurants

Roy’s Bayside Grill

Straw Hat Restaurant

Picante Anguilla BWI

Sand Bar

Elvis Beach Bar

Boutiques and Galleries

Sea Spray

Petals Boutique

Irie Life Anguilla

Savannah Gallery

Antigua

The Antigua & Barbuda Humane Society gets support from:

Hotels

Elite Island Resorts

Galley Bay Resort & Spa

Pineapple Beach Resort

St. James's Club

The Verandah Resort & Spa

Food & Beverages

Horizon Supplies

King’s Casino

Dogs & Cats of Antigua has support from the Sandals Foundation.

Sandals Grande Antigua

Sandals Resorts run hotels on 8 Caribbean islands and their foundation sandalsfoundation.org, apart from the enormous commitment to aid and development in the fields of education, health, environment and economical perspectives for poor people, supports also various animal welfare projects.

Aruba

Animal welfare organizations in Aruba get support from:

Hotels

Hyatt Regency Aruba Resort & Casino

Pets allowed!

Bucuti & Tara Beach Resorts

Costa Linda Beach Resort

Aruba Marriott Resort & Stellaris Casino

"Ritz Carlton Aruba

Dogs allowed, note strict regulations!

Other

Aruba Tourism Authority

Tourist Product Enhancement Fund

Arubabank

Bahamas

Hotels

Sandals Royal Bahamian

Sandals Emerald Bay

In the Bahamas they were involved in the beginnings of the Operation Potcake, a spay & neuter program where thousands of animals get spayed and neutered during each campaign.

Barbados

The Ocean Acres Animal Sanctuary gets support from:

Restaurants

The Orange Grocer

"Animal Flower Cave is another very animal-friendly restaurant.

Bonaire

Der Animal Shelter Bonaire gets support from:

Hotels

Carib Inn (Bruce Boker’s Dive Resort)

Others

Jan Art Gallery

British Virgin Islands

The Humane Society BVI get support for fundraising from:

Nanny Cay’s Beach Bar (Tripadvisor Review)

Cayman Islands

One Dog at a Time gets support from:

Cayman Diving

Catering

Jaques Scott Wines & Spirits

Curacao

CARF – Curacao Animal Rights Foundation gets support from:

Scuba Lodge

Dominican Republic

Dominican Tree House Village

2022 the hotel asked for spay neuter aid for the animals of El Valle because any animal-unfriendly way to control animal reproduction is no option for this hotel. The Dominicna Tree House Village offers accommodation to our vet team during spay & neuter campaigns.

The Spanish hotel group Grupo Piñero has an ecological foundation: . In El Valle they want to start an educational project to teach people how to take care of their animals properly in order to protect hatching turtles from straying dogs. We support this initiative.

4 hotels of the Grupo Piñero get their dogs and cats spayed, neutered and vaccinated SamanaDogs:

Bahia Principe Grand Samaná

Bahia Principe Grand Cayacoa

Bahia Principe Grand El Portillo

Cayo Levantado Resort

Gypsy Ranch Rooms

Pets allowed upon request!

Villa Mar

A guest who stayed for a prolonged period at the Villa Mar recommended the hotel as very animal-friendly.

Tropix

The Tropix has accommodated visiting vets many times.

La Hacienda

The owner is an animal welfare activist.

The Palms

Pets allowed!

The Palms adopted also rescue dog Esther.

Guesthouse Caribe Punta Cana

2016 the president of the Association for Aid and Support of the Creole Dogs stayed here and met 2 spayed neutered and well-kept hotel dogs. We don’t have more current information.

Hotel Marimba Punta Cana (Hotel 2 Bavaro)

Pets allowed!

Villa Residencial Las Tejas

2019 the villa offered rooms for a cat spay & neuter campaign with Dr. Josef Beisl.

2018, 2019 and 2020 the hotel accommodated our vet teams during spay neuter campaigns. The owner Doña Rita is a great animal lover and all her animals are spayed and neutered.

We recommend a visit at the restaurant Bocana.

They sponsored fantastic dinners for the vet team during our spay neuter operative in Boca Chica 2020.

Grenada

The Little House, Crayfish Bay Organic Estate

Lylette and Kim Russell support the Grenada SPCA and accommodated our vet Claudia Bretthauer and her team during the spay and neuter operatives 2017 and 2019.

The British travel company JustGrenada.co.uk told us that they support the Grenada SPCA. According to their statement none of the hotels that you can book on JustGrenada.co.uk poison animals.

Jamaica

Hotels

Sandals Dunn’s River

Sandals Ochi

Sandals Montego Bay

Sandals Negril

Sandals Royal Caribbean

Sandals Royal Plantation

Sandals South Coast

Since 2010 they finance spay neuter campaigns with ISNN (International Spay Neuter Network) on Jamaica.

Martinique

Hotels

Club Med – Les Boucaniers

have their cats spayed and neutered by Les Moustikat’s – Chats des Plages Martinique.

Hôtel Villa Domaine de la Palmeraie

According to a long-term guest who lives there with his cats it is possible to vacation there with pets. Travel sites state: No pets allowed! Inquire before booking!

Nevis

On the web site of Nevis Animal Speak you find under numerous pet-friendly hotels, villas and Air B&Bs on Nevis and St. Kitts and travel sites that offer pet-friendly accommodations in many other parts of the world as well.

Puerto Rico

Hotels

Verdanza Hotel

Pets allowed! The hotel offers a pet park with agility course https://www.verdanzahotel.com/amenities.

Saba

Hotels

The Saba Foundation for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals recommends the following hotels as especially animal-friendly:

Queen‘s Hotel

Juliana‘s Hotel

Scout‘s Place Hotel

St. Croix

Hotels

The St. Croix Animal Welfare Center gets support from:

The Buccaneer

St. John

Voluntourism

The Animal Care Center of St. John has a VolunTourismus programm:

Animal Care Center information is placed in guest welcome packets in rental villas and resorts around the island. Visitors to St. John are invited to tour the shelter, walk the dogs, spend time with the cats, or volunteer to fill some other need. Some folks tour or make a donation, and others enjoy directly interacting with the animals. For more information on becoming a VolunTourist, contact us about setting up a visit.

St. Kitts

On www.nevisanimalspeak.org you find under numerous pet-friendly hotels, villas and Air B&Bs on St. Kitts and Nevis and travel sites that offer pet-friendly accommodations in many other parts of the world as well.

St. Lucia

St. Thomas

Hotels

The Humane Society of St. Thomas (also on Facebook) has cat cafés on the grounds of the following hotels:

The Ritz Carlton

St. Thomas Westin

Bluebeard’s Resort

Flamboyan Hotel

The Flamboyan has an own cat sanctuary.

St. Vincent & the Grenadines

The VSPCA – Vincentian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals gets support from these Hotels, Restaurants, etc.: