🐾 ₹300–500 Pet charge per day
📍 Devpura Haridwar, Uttarakhand
🏨 Hotel Pet-Friendly Stay
Hotel Trishul is one of the few hotels in Haridwar that openly welcomes guests travelling with pets — a city where pet-friendly accommodation options are genuinely hard to find. Located on Haridwar Railway Station Road near Laltarow Bridge in Devpura, the hotel sits within easy reach of the city's main ghats, the railway station, and the broader spiritual and natural landscape that draws so many visitors to this part of Uttarakhand. If you're travelling to Haridwar with your dog and don't want to leave them behind or scramble for last-minute options, this is a confirmed, bookable address worth knowing about. The hotel actively manages its pet policy — which means the experience of arriving with a dog here is far less fraught than at most places in the city, where you're often turned away at the door or asked to keep your pet in the car while you sort things out at the front desk.
✓ Verified by the Pet Friendly Places team
We confirmed the pet policy directly with Hotel Trishul. Small pets are charged at ₹300 per day and large pets at ₹500 per day. The hotel asks that you inform them in advance before arriving with your pet — do not show up unannounced. Call ahead to confirm your booking includes your pet so there are no surprises at check-in.
The Location
Haridwar is a city of ghats, ashrams, and the Ganga — and Hotel Trishul's position near the railway station puts you within practical distance of all of it. The Laltarow Bridge area in Devpura is a well-connected part of the city, making it convenient whether you're arriving by train or road. The neighbourhood sits close enough to the main action that you can walk to several key areas, but just far enough from the most congested ghat zones that getting in and out with a car or with a dog on a leash is manageable without fighting through peak-hour crowds every single time.
For pet parents driving up from Delhi NCR, Haridwar is roughly a 4–5 hour drive depending on traffic, and the hotel's road-accessible location means pulling up with your dog in the car is straightforward. The city itself is dense and busy — this is not a quiet hill-station retreat — but having a confirmed pet-friendly base here is genuinely useful for anyone using Haridwar as a gateway to Rishikesh, Rajaji National Park, or the broader Garhwal region. Many travellers treat Haridwar as a one- or two-night stop on a longer pet-friendly road trip through Uttarakhand, and Hotel Trishul fills that role well: it's practical, centrally located, and transparent about its pet charges, which is more than can be said for most accommodation options in the city.
The railway station proximity is worth noting for a specific reason — it means the hotel is accustomed to guests arriving and departing with luggage, often at odd hours, and that operational rhythm tends to translate into smoother check-ins for pet parents who are also juggling carriers, leads, travel bowls, and everything else that comes with moving through a city with an animal in tow.
Pet Policy in Detail
The hotel charges a daily pet fee that varies by the size of your animal: ₹300/day for small pets and ₹500/day for larger ones. This is a flat daily rate applied on top of your room cost, so factor it into your overall budget when planning — for a two-night stay with a large dog, that's an additional ₹1,000 on top of accommodation costs, which is reasonable by city-hotel standards. The charge structure being tiered by size is also a helpful signal: it suggests the hotel has genuinely thought through its pet policy rather than simply adding a blanket fee to tick a box.
The most important operational detail is the advance notice requirement — calling ahead before you arrive with your pet is not optional here; it's how the hotel manages its pet-friendly rooms and ensures the relevant room is prepared and available. Walk-in bookings with a pet are unlikely to go smoothly. When you call, be specific: tell them the size and breed of your dog, the number of nights you're staying, and ask them to confirm your reservation explicitly includes your pet. Getting a name of the staff member you spoke to is good practice at any property where policies are managed over the phone rather than through an automated booking system.
Whether pets are allowed inside the guest room or restricted to certain areas of the property was not specified in our verification. This is a meaningful distinction — some hotels that charge a pet fee still expect the animal to remain in a common area or a designated zone rather than inside the room itself. We'd recommend clarifying this directly when you call, especially if you have a dog that is not comfortable being separated from you in an unfamiliar environment.
Walking Your Dog in Haridwar
This is where Haridwar requires some honest planning. The city is one of the most densely visited pilgrimage destinations in India, and the crowds around Har Ki Pauri and the main ghats are intense — particularly in the evenings around Ganga Aarti, when tens of thousands of people converge on a relatively small area. Walking a dog through that is genuinely stressful for both the animal and the owner, and is not something we'd recommend attempting during peak hours.
The practical solution most pet parents land on is early morning walks along quieter stretches of the Ganga, before the crowds build. Between roughly 5:30 and 7:30 AM, the city has a different quality entirely — the air is cool, the ghats are less congested, and the river is accessible in a way that simply isn't possible by mid-morning. There are stretches north of the main ghat area where the river bank opens up and walking with a dog on a long lead is feasible. These require a short drive or auto-rickshaw ride from the hotel, but they exist and are well worth the effort.
Rajaji National Park is the other major outdoor option in the region, though it's worth noting that dogs are not permitted inside the national park itself — this applies to all national parks in India. The forested areas and river stretches outside the park boundary are a different matter and worth exploring with local guidance once you're on the ground.
What to Confirm Before You Visit
Our team verified the core pet policy — pets allowed, charges confirmed, advance notice required — but several details are worth asking about directly when you call. Specifically: whether pets are allowed inside the guest room; what size categories qualify as "small" versus "large" (particularly relevant if you have a medium-breed dog who might fall on either side of the line); whether there is any outdoor space or designated walking area within the property itself; and whether there is a limit on the number of pets per room if you're travelling with more than one animal.
Haridwar's urban density also means that nearby green spaces and quieter stretches along the Ganga may require a short drive to access comfortably with a dog. It's worth asking the hotel staff — who will know the neighbourhood — which direction and how far you'd need to go for a comfortable morning walk. Local knowledge at the front desk is often the most useful resource for pet parents navigating a new city.
Hotel Trishul · Haridwar Railway Station Rd, near Laltarow Bridge, Devpura, Haridwar, Uttarakhand 249401 · 📞 099271 69470 · 🌐 hoteltrishulharidwar.in
