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Rio's Retreat Suffolk

Rio's Retreat Suffolk is licensed by Babergh District Council for dog home boarding. The council's most recent inspection awarded it 4 stars out of 5.

Its licence runs to 18 November 2026, 3 months away. Longer licence terms are awarded to higher-rated operators, which is why a distant expiry date is usually a good sign in itself.

On its own website the business describes itself as: "Rios Retreat Suffolk offers trusted pet boarding and walking services in Monks Eleigh, ensuring your pets are safe, happy, and well-loved." We reproduce that as a summary of what it says about itself, not as anything we have checked.

Its site advertises dog boarding, dog day care, house sitting, dog walking.

We found no entry for this business on the ICO register of fee payers. That is common for sole traders and is not necessarily a failing, but a business holding your address and door key would normally be expected to be registered.

Under the star rating scheme a 4-star operator qualifies for a licence of up to 2 years and correspondingly fewer unannounced inspections, so the rating affects how often the council will look in as well as what it thought at the last visit.

Babergh District Council does not publish an address for this licence. That is standard for businesses operating from a residential address and does not indicate anything about the business — contact details are usually on its own website or through the council.

We read 2 pages of its website on 2 August 2026, about 1,048 words in total, and extracted 7 details from them.

Licence record

From its own website

Contact details from its website

Questions and answers

Answers marked from their website are the business's own words. Answers marked from published details are assembled from facts stated on their site. Answers marked summarised were written from their site's text and checked so that every figure appears in the original — but they are a summary, not a quotation, and the business's own site is authoritative.

Where is Rio's Retreat Suffolk?

Its website gives the address as The St, Monks Eleigh, Ipswich IP7 7AU.
From published details — source

How do I contact Rio's Retreat Suffolk?

Its website lists contact by phone on 07300489785 and by email at angela@riosretreatsuffolk.co.uk.
From published details — source

Is the business insured?

According to its website: “We are also fully insured and have an up to date boarding license with a 4* rating.”
From published details — source

What types of pets do you accommodate?

All pets, including birds and horses
Summarised from their website

Do you walk dogs in large groups?

No, unless agreed with all owners
Summarised from their website

What is included in the dog boarding price?

Walks, 24 hour supervision, and cuddles
Summarised from their website

This page reproduces factual entries from public registers. It is not a review, a recommendation, or an endorsement, and we have no commercial relationship with the businesses listed. Council star ratings are the licensing authority's assessment of risk and compliance, not a measure of service quality. If anything here is wrong or you would like your entry removed, see our privacy page — we act on requests without argument.

Where these figures come from

Last updated

2 August 2026

• Local authority animal activity licence registers — English local authorities. Factual fields extracted from each council's published public register: trading name, licence number, licensable activity, star rating and expiry date. Where a council redacts an address — as they routinely do for home boarders operating from a residential address — the record is kept without a location and never geolocated by inference. Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0. Refreshed 1 August 2026.
• Operators' own public websites — The licensed businesses themselves. Factual metadata — description, opening hours, contact details and advertised services — extracted from each operator's own public website. robots.txt is checked and obeyed before every fetch, requests are rate-limited to one per host per run, and every field links back to the page it came from with the date we last checked. Claims operators make about themselves are not verified by us. Licence: Summarised, not reproduced. Refreshed 1 August 2026.
• Licence details are republished from the Babergh District Council public register under the Open Government Licence.
• Companies House and ICO entries are matched by trading name and corroborated by location; unconfirmed matches are not published.