Love vacationing with your dog but are stymied by the hunt for pet-friendly places to stay? We’ve been there. Even places that claim to welcome pets sometimes do so grudgingly, with extra charges and no consideration for the pooch — no provision of food for the pet, or no access to the lift. Some restrictions are near impossible to enforce; how are you going to explain to your dog that the couch at home is fine, but the hotel sofa is off limits? It’s not a holiday if you constantly have to worry about all this.

What we like about Junglebrooke in Kolad is the way we and our dogs are immediately put at ease on arriving there. As soon as we get out of the car at the SaffronStays property, we`re told to let the dogs run free. The words are music to our ears — life in Mumbai, packed into matchbox apartments, is hard for everyone, but especially so for our canine companions. At the resort, there’s nothing but sky and greenery around us. Our dogs dash off like bullets when we take their leashes off, and already, our day is made.