
The 90-minute excursion costs $47 a head. Beaches has his own blue-colored life jacket and he stays on Natasha’s board as the group, up to seven people, paddles past yachts and mansions. Beaches, a Pembroke Welsh corgi, along with his human, Natasha Baker, will guide you on a stand-up paddleboard tour down the Las Olas canals, beginning in Fort Lauderdale’s Victoria Park. Why take a dog on a walk when you can take it on a paddle? Go standup paddleboarding with a puppy Courtesy of Airbnb Read on for five of the wildest, wackiest options. Prices for the animal experiences start at $10 and top out at around $500. The 1,000 activities now on offer, which span the globe, range from downright cute (walking a pig named Emilia on a leash down a nature trail in Ireland) to quite unusual (seeing “life-saving” rats in Cambodia that detect land mines so they can be removed). On Thursday, vacation rental site Airbnb launched “ animal experiences,” a new category that lets travelers add some four-legged fun to their itineraries. Woman makes horrifying discovery in Airbnb bathroomįlorida vacation plans turn into Airbnb rat-fest: lawsuitĪirbnb host left with $640 utility bill after guests purposely left gas, water on

The travel brand also offers plenty of private photo shoot experiences.Airbnb now offering single rooms as low-cost option to house rentals Airbnb promises to give the booking proceeds of the 100 experiences it deems to have "social impact" directly to nonprofits.īut if your vacation style is less about loving animals and more about utter vanity, Airbnb is still happy to serve you.

That means that travelers can search through Airbnb's 1,000 animal activities to do everything from paddleboarding with a corgi in Florida, cuddling cows in Hawaii and studying foxes in Iceland, to playing with rescue horses in Los Angeles and witnessing wild birds in Costa Rica.Īccording to Airbnb, the activities are organized in accordance with new animal welfare guidelines created in collaboration with World Animal Protection, an animal advocacy organization, which means there are plenty of rules for the listings of more than 300 animal species, including zero elephant rides and no big cat interactions. If your ideal getaway involves getting away from humans and getting closer to animals, then Airbnb has good news for you.Īirbnb, the company best known for vacation lodging, is expanding its international "experience" offerings with a new category of travel: Animal Experiences.

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