Awesome post, Carl :D. And I am with you, I think it's really nice to find an accommodation that is pet friendly, maybe it's meant to be that you had an end of year holiday over there. The places that are just pet tolerant (the ones I visited) barely have any kind of thought for pet's needs.
                     
The beach photo is awesome and it's great to see that every alien in the family is having so much fun. Nice spiderweb also :).      
                   
Congrats for the curie ^_^.