Rome Airport opens luxury dog hotel; Italy eases pet travel

Rome – Good news for animal owners: In the future, medium-sized and large dogs can also be taken into the cabin when travelling by air. Although the four-legged ones need their own plane ticket and must continue to be kept in a cage, the stress alone in the cargo space of the plane is spared them. [...]

Rome Airport opens luxury dog hotel; Italy eases pet travel

Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport (FCO) has opened its first-ever luxury hotel for dogs, Dog Relais. Located inside FCO Airport’s terminal, beside the airport’s long-term car park building, Dog Relais offers boarding and daycare, as well as pampering, for dogs when their humans need to travel. The first dog hotel facility in any Italian airport, Dog Relais’ facilities are equipped with panel climate control, automatic water dispensers, …