Staypineapple Pet Fee Waiver For 2026 Stays
Staypineapple announced a Staypineapple pet fee waiver that removes its standard $29.95 per night pet fee when travelers book the Pineapple Pup Plus One offer in February 2026. The deal is aimed at guests traveling with pets across the brand's boutique hotels in major U.S. city markets, where nightly pet charges can add real cost to longer stays. Travelers who want the savings should book direct in February using promo code PUP, then verify their rate details and trip dates early so they do not lose the benefit if they later modify the reservation.
The key operational detail is that the discount is tied to when you book, not when you travel. Staypineapple says the offer applies to stays through December 30, 2026, and it describes the validity window as reservations booked after February 1. In practice, that means the safest tactic is to treat February 2026 as the one shot booking window, even if your trip is months away.
Who Is Affected
The biggest winners are travelers who routinely pay pet fees on short urban breaks, work trips, and multi night weekends, because the waived charge scales directly with length of stay. If you typically do three to five nights, the avoided fee can be more meaningful than a small percentage discount on the base rate, especially in cities where pricing is already elevated in peak periods.
This also matters to travelers who plan complex itineraries, where a single hotel decision influences downstream logistics. When traveling with a pet, you are often filtering for more than a room, you are filtering for elevator access, nearby relief areas, housekeeping timing, and whether you can step out briefly without breaking policy. Staypineapple positions itself as unusually flexible on pet handling, including guidance around leaving a pet in the room with a door hanger workflow, which can change whether you can keep timed tours, dinners, or arena events without returning to reset the room.
There is also a capacity ripple that is easy to miss. A widely promoted fee waiver can pull incremental demand into a narrow booking month, and that can tighten availability for the most in demand dates, and properties, earlier than usual. Even if overall inventory remains, the pet compatible room types that travelers prefer can disappear first, which then forces less convenient room locations, or pushes travelers to split stays across neighborhoods. That fragmentation ripples into ground transport costs and timing risk, because changing neighborhoods changes everything from rideshare friction to walking distance to key venues.
What Travelers Should Do
Start by costing the offer like an operator would. Run the same dates twice on Staypineapple's site, once normally, and once with promo code PUP, and confirm that the pet fee line item is removed rather than rebundled into the nightly rate. Then lock a flexible rate if you are booking far ahead, because the value of a waived nightly fee can be wiped out quickly if you are forced into a non refundable booking to access the promo.
Set decision thresholds for rebooking versus waiting. If you see the pet fee removed but your preferred room category is limited, it is usually better to book now and hold the space, because re shopping later can mean paying a higher base rate even if the pet fee remains waived. If the base rate looks inflated for your dates, consider shifting by a day or two, because in city markets, a single event night can spike pricing more than the avoided pet fee would save.
Over the next 24 to 72 hours after booking, monitor three things, your confirmation shows promo code PUP, your stay dates fall on or before December 30, 2026, and your modification rules will not strip the offer if you adjust dates. Also confirm the on property pet amenities and the Pet Wellness Program details so you are not overpacking, Staypineapple lists take home items like a collapsible water bowl and waste bag dispenser, plus access to Zoundz and nearby VEG ER for Pets coverage.
Background
Most hotel pet fees are structured as per night add ons, which makes them deceptively expensive on longer stays, and easy to overlook when travelers compare hotels by headline nightly rate. The Staypineapple pet fee waiver targets that friction directly by eliminating the brand's stated $29.95 per night charge when the Pineapple Pup Plus One offer is booked during the February window. The offer is positioned as a Valentine's season promotion, but the practical traveler value is that it locks in pet savings for trips far beyond winter, as long as the stay ends by December 30, 2026.
Staypineapple operates boutique hotels in multiple U.S. cities, and it markets pet amenities as part of the core product, not a special exception. That matters because pet travel tends to stress the system at the margins, check in timing, housekeeping cadence, and the traveler's ability to keep commitments off property. When a hotel's pet policy is clear and consistent, it reduces the need for last minute changes that can cascade into missed dinner reservations, delayed departures, or paid pet sitting arrangements.
This is also where second order ripples show up. When a pet friendly offer drives demand into specific weekends, travelers who miss out on hotel inventory often turn to apartment style lodging as a pressure valve, or they move to farther out neighborhoods to stay within budget. Those alternates can carry different reliability, and support tradeoffs, which is why travelers should weigh cancellation terms and operator stability, not just price. Adept Traveler's explainer on that broader lodging reliability question is here, What Sonder's Collapse Means for Apartment Hotels.
If you are comparing options across the broader 2026 lodging landscape, it also helps to remember that the industry is still flagging cost pressure and event driven demand surges as pricing drivers. That is relevant because fee policy changes can be a meaningful differentiator when base rates rise across a market. For a wider lens on those hotel cost dynamics, see AHLA 2026 U.S. Hotel Industry Report Outlook And Costs.