Early Check-In Requested - Hotel charging me Extra

DTDfanBoy

If you don't have the status with the hotel chain required to access an early check in there's no way that they'll guarantee you one in advance. Quite rightly they'll be holding back any available rooms for their preferred customers

If you need to guarantee the early check in because you can't sleep on planes, need to get some sleep etc pay for another night.

If you just want to ditch your luggage have a shower and change your clothes hotels at that level will always have somewhere available for customers arriving early :j

SW17

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But wanting the room at 09:35 means that it can not be used at all the previous night. If the time that the room is required is before the latest time for checkout then they there is absolutely no way that the can rent that room to another guest, therefore the OP will need to book the room for the previous night as well to ensure that it will be available

My point was that if they are not sold out the previous night, rooms will be available. If they are available in the booked category, they will check you in before the official checkin time. It's not guaranteed, but it happens all the time.

totallybored

Is it a suite you've booked? If so there will be less chance of an early check in than a regular room as hotels don't have as many suites. I've had early check ins at many hotels but have found when I've had a suite booked there often isn't one ready yet and I've had to leave my luggage and let the hotel message me when it's ready.

MasterPoo

Hi all,

I've booked this: 1 Krungthep Wing Krungthep Deluxe Balcony Room (King). I'll have to wait and see......

Emirates are transferring me upon arrival, and on departure the hotel is providing the transfers (I'm flying a local airline to get from BKK to Krabi).

zagfles

DTDfanBoy wrote: »

If you just want to ditch your luggage have a shower and change your clothes hotels at that level will always have somewhere available for customers arriving early :j

Hotels at any level would - I've done it often enough at hostels!

DTDfanBoy

zagfles wrote: »

Hotels at any level would - I've done it often enough at hostels!

I find that hard to believe, what facilities would a Travelodge be able to offer you, aside from in an actual hotel room I wouldn't expect to find shower facilities anywhere else in one.

Hostels have communal bathrooms, in most good 5* hotels you'll find shower facilities in Gym/Spa/Pool areas, in the vast gap inbetween the two I think you'd struggle

zagfles

DTDfanBoy wrote: »

I find that hard to believe, what facilities would a Travelodge be able to offer you, aside from in an actual hotel room I wouldn't expect to find shower facilities anywhere else in one.

Hostels have communal bathrooms, in most good 5* hotels you'll find shower facilities in Gym/Spa/Pool areas, in the vast gap inbetween the two I think you'd struggle

Not sure about Travelodge specifically as never tried it in one, but certainly done it in other cheap hotels. Some have separate free standing shower/bath rooms.

But even if they haven't, unless they were full the previous night and not a single guest had checked out early (highly unlikely), they will have an available room.

agrinnall

zagfles wrote: »

But even if they haven't, unless they were full the previous night and not a single guest had checked out early (highly unlikely), they will have an available room.

And they would certainly charge you for the use of that room. I stay at Premier Inns a lot and I have never yet noticed one with a separate shower room, although they do usually (possibly always) have toilet facilities. Most also don't have any left luggage facility, I can only think of a couple that I've used that have. If anything I would expect even less facilities in a Travelodge.

zagfles

agrinnall wrote: »

And they would certainly charge you for the use of that room. I stay at Premier Inns a lot and I have never yet noticed one with a separate shower room, although they do usually (possibly always) have toilet facilities. Most also don't have any left luggage facility, I can only think of a couple that I've used that have. If anything I would expect even less facilities in a Travelodge.

Like I say I have no experience of trying it in a Travelodge, but I've arrived early at hotels loads of times (mostly cheap ones), and never had a problem getting a shower, leaving my luggage, or even sometimes getting the room early if there's one available.

Doshwaster

agrinnall wrote: »

And they would certainly charge you for the use of that room. I stay at Premier Inns a lot and I have never yet noticed one with a separate shower room, although they do usually (possibly always) have toilet facilities. Most also don't have any left luggage facility, I can only think of a couple that I've used that have. If anything I would expect even less facilities in a Travelodge.

They certainly would charge you for the use of the room as it would have to be fully cleaned again. Would you want to check into a room that another guest had just used for a quick shower and change?