Ranked By Roch™

A short guide to our dog-friendly ranks.

When we award a hotel a Roch Rank, we formally verify and certify the hotel's level of dog friendliness by taking them through a comprehensive certification process to accurately capture the level of their canine inclusivity and hospitality. Using a data-driven comparative analysis and cluster benchmarking process, we algorithmically rank them from A+ to F.

Ranks

Our highest rank is assigned to hotels that demonstrably provide the highest canine inclusivity and hospitality levels in the hotel industry. Only the world’s best dog-friendly hotels can hope to attain this rank; for the ultimate dog-friendly experience, look for the A+.

Our A rank is assigned to the top tier of dog-friendly hotels globally. Dog owners should expect a consistently high level of canine-focused services, amenities, friendly policies, hospitality, and inclusivity as standard when staying at any of our A-ranking hotels.

Our B rank is assigned to hotels that practice a respectable level of dog friendliness in terms of their amenities and policies but who might lack some of the services and facilities of their higher-ranking peers. We consider these hotels respectable dog-friendly establishments.

Our C rank is assigned to hotels that practice an average of canine hospitality and inclusivity, and they should be considered the bare minimum standard that we would accept when we travel with our own dogs, and even then, only if there is nothing else.

Our D Rank is assigned to bottom-rung hotels that disappoint us in almost every way; it would be difficult to call these hotels dog-friendly; a better way to describe them is ‘dog-tolerant’ in that they will tolerate your dog's presence in return for some money.

Our F rank is reserved for the world’s worst dog-friendly hotels, the sort of hotel that should be ashamed to call itself pet-friendly. Expect hostile policies and a steep ‘cleaning fee’ because whoever runs this hotel probably has no intention of being friendly to dogs.