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Travel & Airport English vocabulary · Hotels & Accommodation

Booking confirmation

Meaning in travel & airport english, with examples

nounCore term

In travel & airport english, booking confirmation means: A message or document, usually an email, that proves your booking has been made and shows its details and reference number.

In Turkish: rezervasyon onayı, onay e-postası

How it is used

Hotels, airlines and tour companies send a booking confirmation right after payment. Travellers show it at hotel check-in or attach it to visa applications. When it does not arrive, people check their spam folder or contact the company.

Example sentences

  1. Here's my booking confirmation; it says three nights, not two.

  2. I haven't received a booking confirmation yet. Did the payment go through?

Common collocations

  • receive a booking confirmation
  • confirmation email
  • confirmation number
  • print the confirmation
  • reservationAn arrangement to keep a hotel room, table, seat or car for you on a certain date; also the record of that arrangement.
  • booking referenceA short code of letters and numbers, usually six characters, that identifies your booking with an airline, travel agent or hotel.
  • bookTo arrange and usually pay in advance for a ticket, seat, room or service so that it is kept for you.
  • check inTo show your ticket and passport and hand over your bags at the airport before a flight, or to register when you arrive at a hotel.

This word in other fields

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