South Coast Weymouth
Badgers Cottage, Weymouth
Independent pet-friendly review by Four Legged Guests · updated August 2026 · paw rating built from 1 verified guest review mentioning pets
Bring your dog if
- You want a whole-property rental - no shared lobbies or corridors to navigate with your dog
- You're basing yourself in Weymouth / the South Coast and want a pet-friendly anchor for day trips
Worth knowing
- Paw rating sits on a single confirmed pet review - expect movement as more data arrives
- Pet limits: max 2 pets - research-verified; the fee isn't published, so confirm the charge when you book
How this review was built Evidence, sources, refresh cadence
- Evidence: 1 pet-mention guest review sourced from major booking platforms - guests who explicitly mentioned travelling with a dog. Each review is screened for pet-relevance, then judged for sentiment to compute the paw rating.
- Not a personal visit. We don't stay at every hotel we cover - we summarise patterns from real guest reviews, paraphrased and never quoted verbatim. Full standard on our editorial policy page.
- Wider context: The property has 11 guest reviews overall across booking platforms, averaging 8.4/10 - the paw rating reflects only the pet-mentioning subset.
- Last refreshed: August 2026. Policies and pricing drift; we re-check on a rolling basis. Confirm specifics with the property at the moment you book.
- How the paw rating works: Full detail on the methodology page, including the three verification gates and known limitations.
Pet policy at a glance
- Two well behaved dogs are welcome.
- Dogs are not allowed on the beds or furniture, so bring a soft dog bed.
Pet-friendly summary
Badgers Cottage is a small period cottage in Langton Herring, a quiet village on the Fleet Lagoon side of Weymouth. It's let as a whole property with an enclosed back garden, and the location is the reason to book it: the coast path is a few minutes' walk away, the Fleet gives you long, flat, low-traffic walking, and Chesil Beach sits just beyond it.
Guests travelling with dogs rate the property well, and what they single out is the walking straight from the door. Worth packing for, though - dogs are kept off the beds and furniture here, so bring a bed of their own rather than assuming there will be somewhere soft waiting.
Two practical notes on the garden and the house. The garden is enclosed, but the trellis fence between the adjoining gardens has small gaps in it, and a determined little dog has got through into next door after a cat - worth a look before letting one off the lead unsupervised. And the cottage really is little: head room upstairs is tight and the shower room is compact, which is the trade-off for a period property in a village this quiet.
There's a pub serving food within walking distance, though it keeps shorter hours in winter, so check before planning an evening around it. Weymouth itself is about ten minutes' drive for shops, the harbour and the town beach. Best suited to a couple or a solo traveller with one or two dogs - ideally larger or steadier ones, given the fence - who want village quiet and coast-path walking rather than a seafront base.
Highlights from pet-mentioning reviews
What reviewers travelling with dogs consistently noted about staying here.
- Two dogs welcome in a whole-house let
- Coast path and Fleet walks from the door
- Enclosed garden with gaps in the trellis fence
- Dogs kept off beds and furniture
- Village pub with reduced winter hours
About this hotel
Badgers Cottage is a four-star period cottage in Langton Herring, a small village on the Fleet Lagoon about six miles north-west of Weymouth. It is let as a whole property, has an enclosed back garden and plenty of original character, and sits a few minutes' walk from the coast path.
Hotel facts
Photos
Location
4 Shop Lane Langton Herring, Weymouth, DT3 4HU
