This year, forget boarding services or dog sitters and bring your entire family on vacation with you!
Our Lido Key pet-friendly rentals are an ideal option for your vacation getaway. You’ll find there’s plenty of pet-friendly Lido Key opportunities, either in Lido Key or nearby Sarasota. Not only will you find several restaurants, parks, and other Lido Key Beach pet-friendly attractions and activities, there’s plenty of Lido Key vacation rentals in the area that are happy to put up your entire family!
Lido Key Pet-Friendly Rentals
Lido Key Vacations offers many Lido Key pet-friendly rentals, from cottages to 6+-bedroom homes. So, let’s check out some fun things you can do with your pup while enjoying your time in Lido Key. Before we do, it’s worth noting, however, that some paved and other surfaces may be hot for doggie paws, so be aware; be sure your dog is up on all shots, and have plenty of water and a travel bowl wherever you go.
Pet-Friendly Restaurants in Lido Key
Bringing your dog on vacation doesn’t mean that you can’t eat out: you’ll find more than 40 pet-friendly restaurants in Lido Key and Sarasota. Dining indoors with your pet may not be an option, but with many eateries in Sarasota offering outdoor dining, there are opportunities for your four-legged friends to join you on patios, decks, and sidewalk dining areas. Many of these pet-friendly Lido Key establishments are found in the elegant outdoor shopping and dining area of St. Armand’s Circle.
Crab & Fin
Serving fresh local and flown-in seafood prepared in-house daily, Crab & Fin is a landmark of St. Armand’s Circle and has been since 1978. There are daily catch selections such as king crab, halibut, salmon, tuna, and snapper and favorites like the grouper sandwich, shrimp scampi, and clam pasta. Separated from the street by attractive landscaping of shrubs, plants, and benches that keep dogs safe, you can enjoy the outdoor seating area while you enjoy dinner, lunch, or cocktails.
Crab & Fin is open seven days per week: Sunday – Thursday 11:30 a.m. – 9 p.m. and Friday and Saturday 11:30 a.m. – 10 p.m. The outdoor seating area is open when the restaurant opens.
Shore Restaurant
There’s a wide range of seafood dishes on all menus; you’ll find grouper tacos, local snapper, and crab cake salad along with plenty of non-fish offerings such as filet mignon, fried chicken, ribs, and burgers. Burger sliders, steak n’ fries, and grilled cheddar cheese sandwiches are among kid-friendly meals. To wind down an evening, the drink menu lists red and white wines, champagne, and beers on tap.
Shore on St. Armand’s Circle is open from 11 a.m. Monday – Saturday, closing at 10 p.m. during the week and 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Sunday hours are 10 a.m. – 10 p.m.
Note: while Shore loves dogs, they ask that only service dogs be brought onto the premises.
Be Our Guest on Lido Key
In a Lido Key vacation rental near St. Armands Circle, you’ll also enjoy lots of other amenities, including a private, heated pool; privacy fenced backyard; professional linen service; beach chairs, bikes, and coolers; fully stocked kitchens; 2-car garages; and a short walk to the beach and just 2.5 miles to Sarasota. So, come. Sit. Stay. And fetch yourself a Lido Key vacation with the ENTIRE family!
Daiquiri Deck
Famous for their frozen daiquiris and spacious outdoor seating with live music, Daiquiri Deck is a bright, open pet-friendly Lido Key restaurant with lots of oyster, shrimp, and clam dishes. You can also find scallops, shrimp, lobster, salmon, and calamari.
For non-fish eaters, there’s steak, BBQ ribs, a chicken Caesar wrap, and fresh garden salads. The shop sells shirts, hats, and even tumblers, so you can come away with a memento from your mouth-watering visit! While dogs can’t experience dining-in, the large deck is certainly dog-friendly so the whole family can have a great time at the Daquiri Deck!
Open Sunday – Thursday 11 a.m. – 11 p.m. and ‘till 12 a.m. Friday and Saturday.
Columbia Restaurant
Part of a long-standing Spanish restaurant chain operating since 1905, Columbia Restaurant on St. Armand’s Circle has been recognized by USA Today (Named one of America’s Most Historic Restaurants), Southern Living, and Wine Spectator, among others.
At this Lido Key Beach pet-friendly restaurant, you’ll choose from unique seafood dishes like shrimp and crabmeat alcachofas, the classic Red Snapper a la Rusa, and Paella “a la Valenciana” (featuring clams, shrimp, mussels, calamari, and scallops with Spanish rice), as well as beef, steak, and chicken in authentic Spanish recipes. The drinks menu features sangria, family wines, and martinis. This St. Armands Circle restaurant features both an outdoor patio and sidewalk dining areas; your dog is welcome at the sidewalk dining tables.
Columbia opens 11 a.m. every day, ‘till 9 p.m. Sunday – Thursday and 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
Dog-Friendly Parks
As you well know, dogs love their exercise, and there’s no shortage of dog parks and pet-friendly beaches in the Lido Key/Sarasota area where you can bike, hike, walk, run, play ball, and do all the things that make dogs happy and tire them out.
Is Lido Key Beach pet-friendly? This particular beach is not, but there are several very nice ones in the area that accept dogs.
An off-leash beach area, as well as an enclosed dog park (not in the sand), is found at Brohard Beach and Paw Park in Venice, about 20 miles south of Lido Key. This is the only off-leash beach accommodation in Sarasota County!
Since 1999, pups have been gathering at Sarasota’s 17th Street Paw Park, where large and small dogs play off-leash in separate fenced areas; on leashes, these pups can walk with their families in the public park. Same at Lakeview Park in Sarasota: there’s a fenced-in area where dogs can frolic and play (with humans or other dogs) in a dog park as well as enjoy a walk around the park on a leash.
While some parks do not have specific areas designated for off-leash fun, there are many in and around Lido Key and Sarasota that have trails, paths, and walkways where you and doggie can spend lots of time.
Leashed dogs are welcomed to be walked around the three-mile outskirts of a 400-acre lake at The Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota, as well as on hiking trails at the Celery Fields in Sarasota.
Leashed dogs can also take nature hikes and scenic walks in these Sarasota locales: Bayfront Park (where you can eat on the spacious patio with Daisy at the waterfront O’Leary’s Tiki Bar); Venetian Waterway Park; Red Bug Slough Preserve; Ackerman Park; Bee Ridge Park; Christopher Wheeler Park; Circus Hammock; Colonial Oaks Park; and Culverhouse Nature Park; and Ackerman Park.
All About Town
Restaurants and dog parks are not the only places on your Lido Key vacation where your pet can spend time with the family.
Stroll through the Sarasota Farmer’s Market with your pup by your side (similar farmer’s markets in Venice and Siesta Key also allow pups). Stop in for a doggie snack at Woof Gang Bakery in St. Armands Circle, where your fur child will chow down on house-baked as well as top brand treats.
Renting a boat? You’ll be pleased to know that many boat rental companies in the area allow your dog to join you on the water!
Pet-Friendly Rentals
When you and your furry best friend are thoroughly tuckered out from your adventures on the beach, in the dog park, and wandering the farmer’s market, it’s time to head back to your vacation rental for some much-needed R&R. At least it’s not hard to spend time at one of our Lido Key pet-friendly vacation rentals that fully welcome your dog as much as they welcome their human guests.
Whether you need a three-bedroom cottage or an eight-bedroom home, Lido Key Vacations rentals accommodate your dog or dogs (up to two max, total of 50 lbs.) for an additional fee. Dangerous breeds or dogs are not allowed.
