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Pet hotel
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eau’s Pet Hotel, at the
Adelaide Airport precinct, people’s imaginations with bookings
is a luxury boarding facility running hot since we recently opened
that will be a home-away-from home for business, particularly as people’s
for thousands of dogs and cats pets are very much a part of the
launching an innovative each year. family.”
to boost revenue for the Beau, who was the first guide dog to hotel was unique in offering tailored
be trained in Australia. services to pets, while giving owners
Guide Dogs SA/NT is
social enterprise in a move
60-year-old charity.
It’s named after the kelpie-cross,
Beau and his handler, Elsie Mead,
toured the country to gain support
for the guide dog movement back in
the fifties.
Guide Dogs SA/NT Chief
charity.
“We not only offer the level of
care they would expect from an
organisation voted Australia’s Most
Beau’s Pet Hotel would become an but it’s a great way for them to
iconic destination for pets, allowing support their local community with
owners to travel knowing their pet profits going back to Guide Dogs SA/
would be enjoying a holiday, too. NT,” he said.
The climate-controlled hotel
used by Guide Dogs SA/NT to help offers 262 standard and luxury rooms,
fund our services for people living with three choices of accommodation
with disability,” he said. for dogs - classic, deluxe or premier
rooms; and two options for cats - loft
enterprise which will help buffer or penthouse condo. Owners can
us from the headwinds of charity also choose to spoil their pet with
fundraising and gaps in government a private courtyard or outdoor play
funding. In today’s climate the not- yard, complete with water feature,
for-profit sector has to be innovative, and can even Skype their pets to
nimble and think outside the square check how they’re doing.
to shore up a firm financial future.
vision and hearing impairment
the opportunity to also support a
Trusted Charity five years in a row,
“Beau’s is an important social
Beau and his handler, Elsie Mead.
Aaron Chia said that the $9 million
Executive Aaron Chia said he hoped
“Profits from the hotel will be
30
“Beau’s has certainly captured
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