How Do You Check Out of a Hotel?

There's an online debate about the correct way to check out of a hotel, we discuss.

Episode Transcript

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Speaker 3 (00:56):
All right, guys, I got a question for you, and
this is all from a TikTok video that went viral,
So I'll get into why in a second. But the
first question, I mean, the question I have for you guys,
is how do you check out of a hotel?

Speaker 2 (01:12):
I'm interested in this. Yeah, do you actually go down
to the desk and check charges and all that? Or
do you just put a key in the box as
you walk out? Or do you even just leave the
key in your room and just leave?

Speaker 3 (01:24):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
I don't know what point it happened for me, but
at one point I was like, why am I bothering
checking out? It doesn't do it, It just creates extra time.
I go down hand them the little credit card looking keys,
They're like, thanks, You're good to go, Like, what are
you gonna do? You're not gonna have any other charges
that are paid separately than whatever credit card they have.

(01:47):
There's nothing to be accomplished from that other than to
inconvenience yourself to help them. And I feel like they've
already gotten your money and got over on you. And
it wasn't even that great of a stay in most cases.
So I'm like, I'm out. I just leave them on
the table inside the room and I bounce.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
What do you do?

Speaker 1 (02:04):
So?

Speaker 3 (02:05):
I used to I just remember growing up with my
parents they would always go return the card to the
front desk and go through all that. So I thought
that was the normal thing you have to do. And
I remember the first time I stayed at a hotel
with Mike and he just left him on the table
and closed the door. And I'm like, I panicked, like
what are you doing. The cards are inside, we gotta

(02:25):
go take them back. He's like, no, you just walk
out and you just leave. So I thought that's what
you do. Like Ben just said, like whatever, you just
leave them in there and go about your day. So
that's what this girl on this TikTok video did. She
goes she said, hey, older generation, this is how you
check out. It's just that easy. Well it started a
lot of a lot of comments because they were like, well,

(02:47):
that's how you leave if you're a rude person. And
I didn't realize that. Okay, when you go down and
you give those keys back to the front desk, it
allows the housekeepers to go to your room, they can
get in there early and clean up up. They can
get there for the next person. So the next person,
if they want an early check in, they can get
in there earlier. Like it's just apparently it's the right

(03:08):
thing to do.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Can I intervene here?

Speaker 3 (03:10):
Everyone? Can I intervene? Yeah? Absolutely?

Speaker 2 (03:12):
All right, I don't believe that to be the case. Okay,
because those maids or you know, room cleaners, they have
a schedule, and you'll notice they have a master key,
and what you'll notice is they go to the door
and they knock at the time. I always try to
get additional time for a late checkout if I can,
and you that's always based on the availability of what

(03:34):
your room is going to be like, because I've had
times when we left New York they gave us three
extra hours. I actually at New York, I went and
checked out, and the reason was because I needed to
check bags in while I went and bounced around the city.
But also they had all these credits they were going
to issue me back for meals and stuff, and so
I just wanted to make sure I got them. But
I normally do what Ben's talking about.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
I just leave.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah, And usually I'm sorry, good, No, I was just
gonna say, But what happens is is there's times where
I've been in the room check out it's eleven, I've
been there at eleven fifteen. I haven't checked out anything.
I haven't dropped kof they're knocking on the door. Yeah,
because they have a schedule that they follow and if
anything intervenes with that, then they adapt to it. We
check out at the exact moment we have to, Yes,
we do too. Try to get late checkout usually you

(04:18):
can't get it. So say it's ten o'clock or eleven
o'clock or whatever it is, we're out the door at
ten fifty nine. So it's not like anybody's gonna be
able to check in early to my room anyways.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yeah, but I want to deny that rudeness accusation by
that lady.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah, I don't. I really don't think that that interferes.
But like, if you're gonna leave way early, it's great
to let them know. But to Ben's point, when you
hand them the keys, they don't jump online and go
okay with this key matches way okay, hold god, I
got it. They don't they go thank you because they
know it doesn't impact it, right, Okay.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
Well that's my.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
Opinion that I think people just argue on social media
about stuff they don't even know.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
People want to argue all the time. I mean, the
people who left those comments are like, hey, former housekeeper here,
this is why we would like for you to turn
the cards in early. Yeah, but it also probably depends
on what hotel you're staying at, right, I mean, if
you've got a ton of rooms, right, probably not a
big deal. But if there's not that many, it's probably
nicer to let them know, hey, heading on out. But
also you brought up charges skin. That was something else

(05:16):
they mentioned, like, you should probably check out the front
desk and make sure there there are no unwanted charges
on there. Yeah, versus get home and then be like,
wait a minute, what is this. You can't dispute it.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
By then you're stuck in a phone track. Yeah you can,
you can dispute it, but you're stuck in a phone tree.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
So I think it's if people that aren't busy go
ahead and sit down and spend some time make sure
they didn't overcharge you for anything.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
Usually you've got a million other things to do, yeah, right,
like get to the airport, yeah, or wherever you're going next.
But but that does make sense, you know, make sure
because you rent a lot of questionable porn when your hotels,
and so make sure that you charge for the right ones.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
I rented that movie, but not that movie. Come on, man,
I only watched five minutes of this. I'm not paying
for it.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, Surgery Tool Theater, all right, thank you, Christina. Coming
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