Seale Arms, Dartmouth

Seale Arms is a small pub-with-rooms B&B on Victoria Road in Dartmouth, run by Mick and Penn and explicitly set up as a dog-friendly base. It's the kind of property that earns its dog-aware reputation from the format rather than the marketing: a small working pub with rooms upstairs, where the dog can be in the bar with you in the evening, you can sit out on the front with a pint, and the hosts know the regulars by name.

Agoda hasn't published a per-night pet fee, weight cap, or breed restrictions for this property, so confirm those directly with Mick and Penn when booking. The pub-with-rooms format means breakfast is part of the offering, the property is small enough that the hosts get to know each guest across a stay, and the central Dartmouth location is the kind of base where you walk everywhere rather than driving.

Location is genuinely strong for dog walkers. The Dartmouth riverside, the harbour, the embankment, the South West Coast Path heading toward Stoke Fleming and Blackpool Sands, and the Castle ferry are all reachable on foot. The town is one of the more dog-friendly in south Devon - several cafes, restaurants and pubs welcome dogs, and the Higher and Lower Ferries make crossing the Dart to Kingswear an easy outing.

Inside, the B&B is described by recent guests as clean and well-kept, with a warm welcome on arrival and a breakfast that gets singled out as a properly-done full English. The 9.3/10 Agoda aggregate across 79 reviews is unusually strong for a small pub-with-rooms property, and the qualitative picture from dog-owning guests is consistently positive.

Best suited to dog owners who want a small, characterful pub-with-rooms in the centre of Dartmouth, where the dog is part of the evening downstairs rather than shut away in the room - and who value friendly long-running hosts over the polish of a chain hotel.