Timeline for Kicked out of hotel in morning when booking through booking agency (asked to pay for extra day)
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| Apr 14, 2016 at 9:50 | comment | added | Matt Wilko | Never assume you can leave your luggage at the hotel. If your stay in the UK in a Travelodge they have no facility for this. | |
| Apr 13, 2016 at 20:36 | comment | added | WhatEvil | In addition to the late luggage thing I find it's quite commonly possible to pay for a late checkout (say 2-4pm instead of the usual 11-ish) either for free or for a small fee, but usually significantly less than paying for another night's stay. I guess the hotel knows that a percentage of guests won't arrive for their room until the evening and so a later checkout is often OK depending on the size of the place and if they have cleaners on hand etc. | |
| S Apr 13, 2016 at 9:08 | history | mod moved comments to chat | |||
| S Apr 13, 2016 at 9:08 | comment | added | Mark Mayo | Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat. | |
| Apr 13, 2016 at 0:57 | comment | added | pipe | You're saying that it's legal for a hotel to keep your belongings? How long is it legal to keep them? "in the end just to get to my stuff that I have left in my room I paid for extra one day" indicates that the hotel took his belongings as ransom. | |
| Apr 12, 2016 at 14:06 | comment | added | N. Virgo | I've also never had a hotel refuse to store my luggage, but in a couple of places (cheaper places in the UK in older buildings) there was no actual space to store them, so they had to be left in the lobby under the hope that most of the time there would be someone at the desk to keep an eye on them. If you'll want to store anything valuable it's best to check ahead. | |
| Apr 12, 2016 at 12:34 | comment | added | Fattie | hi @AyeshK "I have been lucky to get late-checkout for free many times too" I'm wondering what city or region, what hotel brand, and what year ? | |
| Apr 12, 2016 at 4:09 | comment | added | Zach Lipton | Some hotels may be pretty accommodating about late checkouts (especially if they aren't full and/or they want to appease you because they think you'll leave them a review), but a checkout late enough to be the last thing you'd do before heading to a 22:30 flight is a very late checkout indeed. The hotel wants another guest to be able to use that room, and hotels aren't staffed and equipped to clean rooms at night. A checkout that late is basically the same as asking them to give you another night for free, and most hotels won't be so accommodating of that. | |
| Apr 12, 2016 at 0:02 | comment | added | AKS | I have been lucky to get late-checkout for free many times too. If you are coming with a booking from a web site that the guests can leave a review, or if you look like you would bother to leave a good review, hotels will probably give a free late check-in. Even in the worst case, ask the staff if it would be OK to use their lobby (and browse that thing called the Internet). | |
| Apr 11, 2016 at 22:09 | comment | added | Fattie | hi @rvs! You're lucky then, good one | |
| Apr 11, 2016 at 20:42 | comment | added | rvs | @JoeBlow huh? I've never got charged for it in hotels in range from cheapest ones to glamour expensive ones in Europe and US. | |
| Apr 11, 2016 at 18:55 | comment | added | David Mulder | @JoeBlow: At lower to mid end hotels off-season as far as I know it's quite often free. But yeah, at the bigger and/or high end ones you're absolutely right. | |
| Apr 11, 2016 at 18:48 | comment | added | Fattie | "which may be free, or may be charged" ... very rarely free these days. | |
| Apr 11, 2016 at 18:45 | comment | added | Zibbobz | @Voo It would be exceptionally rare, but better to let the hotel know about the arrangement ahead of time anyway - after all, this question shows exactly what happens when you don't make your arrangements known to the hotel staff ahead of time. | |
| Apr 11, 2016 at 18:43 | comment | added | reirab | @MooseBoys Hmm... I guess it's changed since I've done that, then, as I've definitely done it on American before and a quick search of flyertalk suggested it was true for Delta, also. Looking further, Delta's website currently says it's 6 hours prior to departure. | |
| Apr 11, 2016 at 18:33 | comment | added | CQM | All of this is correct, I would mention that after doing all of these things many times and feeling like I was "beating the system", being homeless for an afternoon is inconvenient so just book an extra night. The routine otherwise is wake up early, pack, store your stuff with the concierge but make sure you have what you need for the beach and sight seeing, walking around all day. Getting your stuff, going to the airport, waiting around there. Etc. Kind of tiring. The alternative being having your room still available and then just going to the airport. This is coming from an extrovert. | |
| Apr 11, 2016 at 18:21 | comment | added | Raystafarian | @MooseBoys SW enforced the 4-hour on me in Birmingham AL. So that makes at least three. | |
| Apr 11, 2016 at 18:10 | comment | added | MooseBoys | @reirab That's not my experience. Delta and American at least all seem to enforce the 4-hour policy at SEA, LAX, JFK, and MIA, even when the counter is open. | |
| Apr 11, 2016 at 18:06 | comment | added | reirab | @MooseBoys Yeah, policy varies by airline (and what policy is normal varies by region... AFAIK, most U.S. airlines will allow you to drop-off a bag any time on the day of the flight, provided the counters are open.) | |
| Apr 11, 2016 at 17:30 | comment | added | Voo | @Zibbobz I've been all around Europe, North America and Asia and I could store my luggage every time without any hassle (and that ranging from hostels to expensive hotels). Where are you travelling that this is not considered the norm? Would be good to know to plan ahead if I'm ever in that area. | |
| Apr 11, 2016 at 17:10 | comment | added | PLL | @Zibbobz: while luggage storage is indeed considered a courtesy service not a requirement, as you say, it is an extremely common one — I have never known a hotel to refuse it (from pretty extensive travelling in the US and Europe, and some in other parts of the world), so I’d say it is pretty safe to assume it will be available. | |
| Apr 11, 2016 at 17:06 | comment | added | MooseBoys | @reirab Many airlines do not permit checking bags more than 4 hours ahead of their scheduled departure. | |
| Apr 11, 2016 at 16:52 | comment | added | reirab | @Zibbobz Very true. However, in many situations where hotels don't offer that, another possibility is to go ahead and take your bags to the airport, check them in, then go back to the city for a while until your flight. However, this might be inconvenient if the airport is far away. | |
| Apr 11, 2016 at 16:24 | comment | added | Zibbobz | Also note: Not all hotels will let you store your baggage in their facilities after you've checked out - that is either a service our a courtesy, not a norm or a required service of the hotel | |
| Apr 11, 2016 at 15:07 | vote | accept | Matas Vaitkevicius | ||
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