Can you stay past the reserved checkout date in a US hotel?

8/29/2015 4:21:29 PM

They can ask you to leave, and have the right to enforce it, as you are overstaying your agreement with them. It is however completely at their discretion. Because hotel cancellations are frequent though, there may be a room available by the time your arrive or before your scheduled departure date. The best is to ask politely the reception every evening until you get a yes.

Usually rooms are held for reservations until a certain time, say 10 PM for example, so if you get to know what the time is, ask just after since this is when there is the most likely for a room to become available. Some rooms are usually held by consolidators who book blocks of room to rent out for a profit, those not rented simply become available when the reserved day arrives.

Some hotels will let you extend your stay even if no room is available. They may move you to another type of room or move the displaced guest elsewhere, possibly to another hotel. This has happened to me once when I had a reservation, already paid in full, and the hotel had let guests overstay. They booked me a room in another similar category hotel a few blocks away, paid my taxi there and gave me a voucher for a rather expensive meal at a nearby restaurant. They also got the other hotel to give me free WiFi.

10/18/2016 12:55:38 AM

The answer will vary from state to state but states do have laws regarding guest eviction and quite a few of them have rules for evicting guests for overstaying, e.g. Washington:

If a guest fails to leave when he is not entitled to remain at the hotel, then the guest is in violation of this statute (RCW 9A.52.070). The police are required to enforce this law and remove the guest. The law is an important tool and should be part of your discussion with local law enforcement before any incident actually occurs.

So the issue will need to be addressed state by state as it is not a federal matter. Now as far as whether or not the hotel will choose to apply this rule is up to the hotel but if it’s booked solid they are more likely to do it.

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