At home, sounds arrive in patterns she has already classified as safe. In a hotel, the corridor delivers a new event every few minutes: footsteps that approach and, worst of all, pause outside your door; a lift chiming; a trolley rattling past; strangers laughing at close range and then disappearing. She cannot see any of it, she cannot investigate, and the door she is watching is also the room's only exit. Night alertness in a hotel is therefore not disobedience. It is a guard dog doing her job with too little information, and your task is to reduce both the noise reaching her and her sense that the door is her responsibility.
Take the Door Away From Her
Position is the first fix. A bed placed beside the door puts her nose at the exact seam where corridor smells and sounds leak in, so move her sleeping spot to the far side of the room, ideally behind the bathroom wall or the bed itself, with her own blanket or bed from home carrying familiar smells. A dog who sleeps near your bed, as many do at home, usually settles faster than one exiled to the bathroom, which adds isolation to strangeness. If she chooses a spot herself, a corner she backs into, work with that choice rather than insisting on yours.
Run a short settling patrol when you first arrive and again before bed: let her sniff the room thoroughly, check the bathroom, look behind the curtains. Investigation completed in daylight and repeated at night converts unknown territory into mapped territory, and mapped rooms need less guarding.
Mask the Corridor, Do Not Listen to It
Silence is the worst background in a hotel because every corridor event stands out against it at full contrast. A steady, boring sound source flattens those peaks: the television left on low, a radio station, or the bathroom fan running through the evening. Start the masking sound before the busy period, not after the first bark, and keep its volume constant rather than adjusting it each time noise rises, since changes in volume are themselves events worth monitoring. During the busiest hour, when guests return and doors bang, give her a lick mat, a stuffed food toy or a long chew; licking and chewing are incompatible with standing alert, and they give the arousal somewhere physical to go.
Your own behaviour is part of the soundscape. If you freeze and stare at the door when footsteps pass, she learns the footsteps matter. Keep talking, moving and breathing normally, and if she does bark, answer with a calm, dull voice and the usual settle cue, then reward the quiet that follows rather than scolding the bark, which simply adds your raised voice to the alarm.
Transplant Bedtime in Its Exact Home Order
Do the last hour as a photocopy of home: the same final walk at roughly the same time, a toilet opportunity last thing, the same settle words, the same blanket arrangement and lights out in the same sequence. Familiar order tells her that this room, however strange, has reached the safe part of the day. A ground-floor room near an exit, requested at booking, makes any night toilet trip short and quiet instead of a lift ride past other doors. Practise brief, boring departures during the day, out for a minute, back without ceremony, if she frets when you leave, and never leave her alone longer than the hotel permits or she can comfortably manage.
Should you step out briefly, the walker you have chosen could use a Care Pass in KinsLe, open only for that evening, to follow her settling routine and take her out at the hour she expects.