Glenaire Apartments(Strahan)

Glenaire Apartments is a small apartment stay on Frazer Street at Cape Horn, a hillside pocket above Strahan on Tasmania's west coast. Strahan is the town people base in for the Gordon River cruises, the West Coast Wilderness Railway and the ocean beach at Ocean Beach, and Glenaire's self contained apartments put you a short drive or a steepish walk from the harbour front without paying harbour front prices. Hosts Wayne and Michelle run the collection personally, and guests credit them with a genuinely warm welcome for dogs as much as for people.

Dogs at the apartments

Per the Glenaire website itself, the property is pet friendly Strahan accommodation, with the site's own title and metadata stating pet friendly apartments and the hosts welcoming pets across the Glenaire units. Because that comes from the venue's own site rather than a booking platform, it carries real weight; the specifics such as which of the apartments suit dogs, whether there are fees and any house rules are best confirmed with Wayne and Michelle when you book, since the site advertises the welcome rather than publishing a full policy page.

One thing guest feedback agrees on: the grounds around the units are open rather than fenced, so bring a tether or long line if your dog likes to wander. The hillside setting also means a five minute walk downhill to the village and the same climb back up, worth factoring in with a tired dog. West coast mud is its own local institution, so a towel by the door saves the flooring.

Worth knowing

The Cape Horn position means you are above the town looking down on Macquarie Harbour, so expect a view and a hill. Strahan village itself has the foreshore, the visitor information centre and the departure points for the cruises, all dog-tolerable on lead in the outdoor areas.

The big tour products, the Gordon River cruises and the Wilderness Railway, do not take dogs, so plan pet-minding or split your days before booking them. For proper exercise, the ocean beach south of town is long, open and usually near empty, and locals with dogs also use the sand at Macquarie Heads. The Hogarth Falls track from People's Park is a rainforest walk worth checking the current dog access rules for before you set out.

More published pages from this site for the region include the Penguin Beachfront Apartments on the north west coast as an alternative base, and the full range of dog friendly stays in Tasmania.