BOUTIQUE STAYS - Central Park

Boutique Stays - Central Park is a self-contained apartment at 175 Park Street in South Melbourne, and it accepts dogs for a fee that undercuts most of the city, around $12 per pet per night with a limit of two pets per booking. For owners who want their own kitchen and living space rather than a hotel corridor, that combination of an apartment layout and a low, published pet fee is the draw, with Albert Park and the lake loop close enough to be your daily walk.

Dogs at Central Park

Up to two pets are allowed per booking, and the fee runs to approximately $12 per pet per night, which is on the lower end for inner Melbourne. Certified service animals are exempt from the fee. Where pets are permitted inside, they are strictly not allowed on furniture or beds, you must clean up after your pet throughout the property and before departure, and pets must be disclosed and cleared at the time of booking rather than arriving unannounced. Pet-friendly apartments are available but individual units differ, so name your dogs when you enquire and confirm the specific apartment's conditions.

The place

This is whole-apartment self-contained accommodation, so you get a kitchen and a living area to settle a dog into a routine instead of managing a single hotel room. Park Street puts you between South Melbourne's village strip and the green edge of Albert Park, with South Melbourne Market an easy walk for supplies and the tram corridors into the CBD close by if you are mixing a city visit in.

Pepsi: name your dogs and your dates in the first enquiry and get the specific apartment confirmed, because the pet rules and layouts vary unit by unit within the same building group.

Close by with the dogs

The daily routine writes itself: the Albert Park Lake loop is the natural morning and evening walk, and Eastern Reserve Dog Park is the fenced option in the same suburb for a proper run. When you want a meal without the car, Livi's La Ceylon is the local dog-friendly table. If this apartment is booked, Hyatt House South Melbourne on Palmerston Crescent is the other nearby stay that takes dogs by arrangement.

More stays around the suburb are on the South Melbourne destination page, and the wider list is in the VIC pet friendly stays index.