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Normal checkout at Hyatt Hotels is usually around midday, and check-in is around 3:00 pm. If you want to leave after midday, it is best to lock in late checkout, which is likely to be anytime from 1:00 pm to 9:00 pm.
While evening checkouts are rare, our luxury travel concierge agents can sometimes secure crazily late checkouts for our clients, so it’s always worth asking – we are delighted to try and help you.
We can always secure a prioritized late checkout, meaning you’re first in the queue for late checkout privileges. Our agents can also get you prioritized room upgrades, free breakfast for two, and more at luxury hotels for all our clients, so get in touch if you could use any of these perks. You will also get all your usual loyalty points and perks when you book with us.
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Read on for our superb tips below to increase your chances of securing a late checkout at a Hyatt hotel.
1. Book Via An Agent That Specializes In Late Checkout
Book via a specialist agent who can prioritize late checkouts. If you book your next Hyatt stay via our luxury travel concierge, our official Hyatt Prive Partner agents will get you prioritized late checkout, prioritized room upgrade, free breakfast, hotel credit, welcome amenities, and more. Our agents are official partners with Hyatt, so we can put you at the front of the queue. If there is any possibility of securing a late check, our priority means you will get it.
2. Ensure Your Agent Personally Requests Late Checkout
Book your next Hyatt stay via our luxury travel concierge, and you will have your own personal agent looking after you while you make the booking as well as throughout your stay.
Our agents have access to an agent-only database of hotel General Managers and Sales Managers. These managers can decide whether to give guests late checkout. By contacting these managers, we can ensure that they know why you need a late checkout, and this personal touch will help us increase your chances of getting a late checkout.
Our luxury agents have direct contacts at every Hyatt hotel and can request and may occasionally be able to confirm late checkout in advance.
3. Become a Globalist Status Loyalty Member
Members of hotel loyalty programs often receive perks and prioritized benefits such as late checkout privileges. Joining these programs can increase your chances of getting a late checkout.
As a standard member, you do not get late checkout privileges; the only way to boost your chances of late checkout if you don’t have an elite membership of World of Hyatt is to book via our luxury travel concierge agents.
Discoverist and Explorist members of World of Hyatt get late checkout upon request at participating locations until 2:00 pm.
Globalist members can request late checkout at participating locations until 4:00 pm. To become a Globalist, you need 60 qualifying nights, 100,000 Base Points, or 20 meetings or events in a calendar year at Hyatt hotels. Late checkout is guaranteed and is not offered at Hyatt Vacation Club resorts.
Having elite status combined with the benefits you get booking via our luxury travel concierge is probably your best bet to secure free late checkout.
4. Stay Regularly
if you are a repeat guest at a particular Hyatt hotel, all your benefits will likely be prioritized. You are likely to get a better room, you are more likely to get a welcome amenity, and crucially, the hotel is more likely to try its best to shuffle rooms around to give you late checkout.
6. Explain Your Situation
Reception staff are real people. Try to appeal to their kind nature and explain why you need a late checkout, like a late flight departure or a special occasion. These details help staff justify your late checkout to management, making it more likely.
6. Offer to Pay
Sometimes, offering to pay an additional fee for late checkout or an extra half-day stay may increase your chances of success. We recently had a client who booked a luxury hotel via our luxury travel concierge, and because his flight was arriving at 6:00 am, he needed his room at 7:00 am. This was too early for a free early check in, but the hotel happily offered him a half-day fee so that he could access his room first thing in the morning rather than at 3:00 pm in the afternoon. Our agents negotiated this as we have direct contact with management at every luxury Hyatt hotel.
7. Book When There’s Low Occupancy
Hotels are more likely to gift late checkouts when occupancy is low. It might be worth booking your stay in low seasons or incorporating an unpopular night at the end of your Hyatt stay. For example, if you are traveling to a hotel for the weekend, staying on a Saturday rather than a Friday night is better. This is because, on a Friday night stay, you will check-out on Saturday, which is usually one of the most popular nights of the week, particularly at hotels used for weekend breaks, so you are unlikely to get late checkout on a Saturday.
Conversely, if you check-out on a Sunday, Sundays are often the least busy nights at a hotel, so you are far more likely to be able to secure a late checkout at a Hyatt Hotel.
8. Can You Use Hotel Facilities After Checkout?
If all else fails and you can’t get a late checkout, some hotels permit you to use all the facilities until you leave and have a communal room or changing area to use and shower in.
This means you can enjoy all the hotel facilities, the pool, the lounges, the gym, and the beach, even without having a room. You can then clean up in the hotel’s shared changing rooms before heading to the airport.
Our booking agents can determine whether the hotel you want to stay in has this option, as this facility is a huge advantage if you have a late flight.
9. Call Reception Again On The Day Of Checkout
If you can’t secure a late checkout during check-in, consider following up with the front desk staff on the checkout day. Sometimes, last-minute accommodations can be arranged or juggled, depending on hotel availability.
10. Book Club Lounge Access
If your hotel doesn’t allow late checkout, consider paying for access to the club lounge. Hyatt hotels have some fantastic club lounges.
A club lounge is a place to relax and grab a complimentary bite to eat and drink. These lounges are brilliant and almost as good as having your own room while you wait around in the hotel for your flight. Lounge access late into the evening can be handy for an extended stay.
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