Oh gosh my first dog Pepper, we put her in kennels first just for a night, because we already had a holiday booked later in the year.
It went fine, and they loved her at the kennels. She got terribly car sick so we never chose to take her with us much anyway and knew we'd need to be able to leave her there. But when I went to collect her, it was amazing, she came flying out and leapt at me, making that funny whimpery noise, it was wonderful

She was like that every time, even though the kennels actually had her in their house most of the time
