Hotel checkout checklist
Leave your hotel without forgotten belongings: check the room, review the bill, return keys and organise luggage and onward travel.

THE EVENING BEFORE
- Confirm the checkout time with your booking or reception
- Ask about luggage storage if you will leave later
- Arrange transport and allow enough time for your next connection
- Check whether breakfast or other services are included on departure day
- Pack items you will not need in the morning
- Set an alarm that leaves time for packing and checkout

SWEEP THE ROOM
- Check drawers, wardrobes and coat hooks
- Check under the bed and around the bedside tables
- Collect chargers from every socket you used
- Empty the safe and check that your travel documents are with you
- Collect toiletries, jewellery and belongings from the bathroom
- Check the fridge, balcony and any shared storage you used

AT RECEPTION
- Review the final bill and query charges you do not recognise
- Ask how any payment hold or deposit will be handled
- Request a receipt or invoice if you need one
- Return room keys, cards and any borrowed equipment
- Keep the luggage receipt if leaving bags in storage
- Count your bags and check your next destination before leaving