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Tourism & Hospitality vocabulary · Check-in & Check-out

Late check-out

Meaning in tourism & hospitality, with examples

/ˌleɪt ˈtʃekaʊt/nounCore term

In tourism & hospitality, late check-out means: Permission for a guest to leave the room later than the hotel's normal check-out time, sometimes for an extra charge.

In Turkish: geç çıkış, late check-out

How it is used

Guests ask for late check-out before arrival or on the departure day. Hotels give it subject to availability, often free for VIPs or loyalty members and otherwise for a fee. The opposite is early check-in.

Example sentences

  1. Our flight is at 10 p.m. Is it possible to have a late check-out?

  2. I can offer you a free late check-out until 2 p.m.; after that we charge half a day's rate.

Common collocations

  • request a late check-out
  • offer a late check-out
  • late check-out fee
  • late check-out until
  • check outTo pay your bill, return your key and leave a hotel at the end of your stay.
  • check inTo arrive at a hotel, register your details and receive your room key. Staff also check a guest in.
  • availabilityWhether rooms, tables, seats or places on a tour are free to be booked on a particular date.
  • repeat guestA guest who has stayed at the same hotel before and has come back again.

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