Jetty Motel The Entrance

The Jetty Motel sits on The Entrance Road at Long Jetty, across the road from the water and a short drive from The Entrance proper. It has been refurbished in recent years and the results show in the reviews: spacious rooms, spacious bathrooms, comfortable beds and smart TVs with Netflix loaded.

There is a pool for summer, EV charge points for the electric set, and friendly staff who keep the place tidy. It serves the Tuggerah Lakes corridor travellers who want modern motel comfort without resort prices.

Dogs at the motel

Per the motel's own rooms page, guests must notify the property if bringing a pet, and the pet fee is $30 per pet per day. That is the whole published framework: tell them you are coming, pay the fee, and expect the usual ground rules about where pets go.

Because the policy is set out on the motel's own pages rather than a booking aggregator, you can treat it as authoritative, but a quick call still beats a surprise at the desk. For a fee of that size the calculus is easy on a coastal trip: two nights with a dog adds $60, which is less than most boarding kennels charge for a single night in high season.

Guests travelling with big dogs report the motel takes them in stride, which is rarer than it should be on the coast. The large floor tiles in the refurbished rooms keep pet hair and sand from finding a home, and the house habit is to give notice when you book and name the dog when you do.

The local trick is the back-lane exit: the side access drops you onto the lakeside parklands in about two minutes, so the evening relief walk never has to cross the traffic. Regulars also request rooms near the ground-floor exits, which saves the long hallway trudge when a dog needs out at 3am.

Out the back you hook straight onto the Long Jetty to The Entrance foreshore path. The local rhythm is to walk it before 8am or near sunset, when the cyclists and scooters thin out and the mist sits on the lake.

Worth knowing

The EV chargers make this a practical overnight for anyone running a route down the coast, and the pool is a genuine summer asset. Long Jetty's foreshore and cafe strip are a two-minute drive or a decent walk away.

Make a day of it

Point the dog at North Shelly Beach dog beach for the best off-leash beach on this stretch, or Swadling Reserve Loop for a shorter coastal loop. NSW dog friendly stays has more dog friendly stays across NSW.