Short answer: Few motels say yes to 3 dogs in writing. Red Roof is the only economy brand whose policy allows more than 2 pets, “at management discretion,” for $15 per extra pet, per night. Motel 6, Econo Lodge and Rodeway cap at 2. At Super 8, Days Inn, Microtel, Travelodge and Americas Best Value Inn, each hotel sets its own rule; in our samples, 7 of 101 pet-friendly motels allowed 3 or more. Nine motels that do are listed below. Call before you book.
Official sources onlyEvery value links to the chain’s or hotel’s own page, or ADA.gov
Checked Nov 10, 2026We read 6 brand pet pages and 174 motel pages (113 Wyndham, 61 Americas Best Value Inn)
No guessesAnything a page doesn’t say is marked “Not stated — call property”
At a glance
Brand rules from each chain’s own pet page; hotel examples from each hotel’s own page. Read Nov 10, 2026.
Red Roof: a 3rd dog is possible
2 pets standard; more “at management discretion”
First pet free, $15 per night for each extra pet (capped at $105 per extra pet for 7+ nights). 80 lb per pet. Call the hotel first.
Brand cap of 2
Motel 6, Econo Lodge, Rodeway Inn
Motel 6: up to 2 pets free, 150 lb combined (FAQ). Econo Lodge and Rodeway: “a maximum of two pets.” None mentions exceptions.
Set hotel by hotel
Super 8, Days Inn, Microtel, Travelodge, Americas Best Value Inn
No brand number. Most say 2 pets or no pets, but a few say 3 or more, so read the hotel’s own page.
9 motels that say 3+ in writing
Examples below, with fees
Microtel Woodland Park, CO: up to 4 pets. Americas Best Value Inn Green River, UT: “no limit on the number of pets.”
Brand by brand: can you bring 3 dogs?
From each brand’s own pet page, read Nov 10, 2026. Brand rules can be overridden by an individual hotel, so always check the hotel too.
Red Roof Inn & Red Roof PLUS+
3rd dog at hotel’s discretion
Max pets / room
2 standard. “At management discretion, additional pets are permitted.” FAQ: “Allowing more than two pets is at the property’s discretion”
Fee
First pet free; $15 per night for the 2nd pet and each additional pet; “may not exceed $105 per pet for guests staying 7+ nights”
Weight limit
80 lb per pet
Leaving dogs alone
Not allowed. In an emergency, tell the front desk and leave your contact details
Exceptions
HomeTowne Studios and The Red Collection: policies vary by hotel. Two named hotels take no pets (Oxon Hill, MD #181; Bellmawr, NJ #332)
Service animals & ESAs
“Welcome at all Red Roof Properties for no additional charge”
Super 8, Days Inn, Microtel, Travelodge, Howard Johnson (Wyndham)
Set by each hotel
Brand-wide policy?
No. Wyndham’s FAQ: “Please refer to the hotel details page for the desired hotel’s pet policy”
What we found
112 random US hotel pages: 44 take no pets; of the 67 that do, 43 allow 2 pets, 7 allow 1, 12 don’t give a number, and 5 allow 3 or more (details below)
No pet number on Americas Best Value Inn pages. Sonesta’s PAWS page says “Up to two pets are permitted per room or suite,” but individual Americas Best Value Inn pages list 1, 2, 3 or “no limit”
What we found
60 random US hotel pages: 15 say no pets, 1 contradicts itself, 10 don’t mention pets in their text; of the 34 that take pets, 2 allow 3 or more, 9 say 2, 2 say 1 and 21 don’t give a number
Not re-checked tonight: Best Western (its site returned HTTP 403 to both our page reader and curl on Nov 10, 2026; see our Best Western guide, checked earlier). Studio 6: its pet-friendly page showed no pet policy text when we read it: Not stated — call property.
Motels that say 3 or more pets, in their own words
Property-specific, quoted from each hotel’s official page on Nov 10, 2026. Policies change and rooms can be limited, so call and get the 3-dog approval on your reservation.
Motels whose official pages allow three or more pets
“A maximum of 3 pets per room”; must be attended at all times, leashed outside
Not stated — call property
First pet free; $10 per additional pet, per night
$40
*Our arithmetic from the posted fees, before tax and before any sanitation fee or deposit. Days Inn Salina South was found in our Nov 9 Wyndham sample and re-read Nov 10; Americas Best Value Inn Lincoln was found while looking for Americas Best Value Inn pages (not part of the random sample); the other seven came up in tonight’s random samples.
Big dogs and 3 dogs at the same motel
Only two of these list a weight high enough for large breeds: Microtel Woodland Park (100 lb each) and Super 8 Columbia East (“120lbs or less,” without saying per pet or for all pets together). Five don’t list a weight at all, which isn’t a promise of no limit. Ask before you book. See combined vs per-dog weight limits.
How rare is a 3-dog motel? What 172 random pages say
Random samples read Nov 10, 2026: Wyndham hotels drawn at random from its official hotel database and kept if they were a US Super 8, Days Inn, Microtel, Travelodge or Howard Johnson; Americas Best Value Inn hotels drawn at random from the official Sonesta site map. A sample shows the range, not an exact share for the whole brand.
Pet limits at a random sample of US economy motels
Brand
Hotels read
No pets
Take pets
Allow 3+
Pet limits we saw
Super 8
28
11
17
3
1–3 pets; most say 2
Days Inn
49
21*
27
0
1–2 pets where stated (Salina South, from a Nov 9 sample, allows 3)
Microtel
20
6
14
2
1–4 pets; most say 2
Travelodge
11
5
6
0
1–2 pets
Howard Johnson
4
1
3
0
2 pets
Americas Best Value Inn
60
15†
34
2
1 pet to “no limit”; 21 of 34 don’t give a number
*Plus Days Inn Evanston, WY, whose policy text only mentions service animals: Not stated — call property. †Plus Wiggins, MS (says both no pets and up to 2 pets) and 10 hotels whose page text doesn’t mention pets. “Don’t give a number” means the page says pets are allowed but not how many: Not stated — call property.
Your questions, answered from the official pages
Which motel chain is best for 3 dogs?
Of the economy brands we checked, only Red Roof says in its brand policy that more than two pets can be allowed, “at management discretion,” and it publishes the price: $15 per night for each pet after the first, with a cap of $105 per extra pet for stays of 7+ nights. Our arithmetic: 3 dogs for 2 nights is $60; for 7 nights, $210. Every other brand either caps at 2 (Motel 6, Econo Lodge, Rodeway) or leaves it to each hotel. See our Red Roof pet policy guide.
Is a motel that “doesn’t give a number” OK for 3 dogs?
Not necessarily. Pages like “Pets Allowed / Fees - 15USD per pet per night” (Super 8 Fredericksburg, VA) don’t say how many: Not stated — call property. One hint worth asking about: Microtel Pueblo, CO lists “a pet deposit… 150USD for the first 2 pets and 50USD per pet thereafter,” which suggests more than 2 can stay, but it gives no maximum.
Leaving the dogs alone
Red Roof and Motel 6 say no. Most hotel pages we read don’t say: Not stated — call property. Microtel Woodland Park says pets “must be crated” but not whether you may leave them. Americas Best Value Inn Lincoln says pets “must be in attendance all the time.”
Service animals
Service animals aren’t pets, so pet limits and fees don’t apply to them. ADA.gov: a business that charges pet fees or deposits “must waive the charge for service animals,” and dogs “whose sole function is to provide comfort or emotional support do not qualify as service animals under the ADA.” Red Roof also lets emotional support animals stay free; most hotel pages don’t say how they treat them: Not stated — call property. (ADA.gov: service animal requirements · our service animals guide)
Conflicts and unclear wording on official pages
Read Nov 10, 2026. When pages disagree, ask the hotel and get the answer on your reservation.
Sonesta’s “up to two pets” vs its own motels
Sonesta’s PAWS page: “Up to two pets are permitted per room or suite.” But Americas Best Value Inn Green River, UT says “no limit on the number of pets per room,” and Elm Creek and Lincoln say 3. The PAWS FAQ also says “All Sonesta hotels welcome dogs and cats,” while 15 of the 60 Americas Best Value Inn pages we read say no pets.
One page, two answers
Americas Best Value Inn Wiggins, MS says “Sorry, no pets are allowed” in its description and, in its Policies section, “A fee of $20 per pet, per night applies… Maximum number of pets per room is 2.” Americas Best Value Inn Vandalia, IL says one pet is permitted, “weighing up to lbs” (the number is missing).
Motel 6: “every location” vs “participating locations”
The pet page says “Every location across the United States and Canada” takes up to two pets; its FAQ says “all participating Motel 6 locations.” The FAQ gives a 150 lb combined limit but also says Motel 6 “generally… does not enforce strict breed or size restrictions.”
Red Roof: “no additional pet fees” wording
Red Roof’s FAQ says a property “may not require a pet deposit or charge additional pet fees, including cleaning fees, at check-in,” while the same page lists the $15 nightly fee for the 2nd and later pets. Our reading: the $15 extra-pet fee is the only pet charge, plus any damage. Confirm with the hotel.
Weight without “per pet”
Super 8 Columbia East (“120lbs or less”), Super 8 Metropolis (“a maximum weight of 35 lbs”) and Americas Best Value Inn Elm Creek (“weighing up to 50lbs”) don’t say whether the limit is for each dog or all dogs together. With 3 dogs, that difference matters a lot.
Before you book
Call the motel itself, not the central line, and say you have 3 dogs. Give each dog’s weight.
Ask whether the weight limit is per dog or combined.
Ask the total: nightly fee per pet, any sanitation fee and any deposit.
Get the 3-dog approval on your reservation (Red Roof says to confirm the number of pets with the hotel before arrival).
Plan not to leave the dogs alone unless the hotel says you may.
Using a service animal? It isn’t counted as a pet, and pet fees must be waived (ADA.gov).
All read Nov 10, 2026, on the chains’ own sites and ADA.gov. Wyndham hotel pet text was read from the data the official hotel page loads, and for every Wyndham hotel named here we opened the page in a browser and confirmed the same words are in it. Americas Best Value Inn pages were read directly from sonesta.com. Search engines were used only to find page addresses; no search-engine copies or third-party listings were used as facts. These are plain links to official pages, not affiliate links.
Every value comes from the chain's own website, checked on the date shown. "Not stated — call property" means the official source doesn't say. Policies change and individual hotels can differ, so confirm with the hotel before you book.
