Do additional guest need to be present for hotel check in
Do additional guest at hotels need to be present with you in the hotel when you check in? Or can I just register them as additional guests and let them check in at a later time?
My friend will be there with me on a Friday or Saturday. I need to be at the hotel on a Thursday for check in. As long as I register my name for the hotel and am paying for the room will it be acceptable to have them stay with me at hotel on Friday or Saturday as long as I tell the hotel and have my additional guest name down?
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In places where hotels are required to register their guests with the local authorities, they will ask for the ID of all guests. Hence all guests might not need to be present to check-in, but their ID's will. Other hotels might just ask for one ID. This is assuming that all guests begin their stay on the same night.
In your specific case you should not need the other person to be present, or their ID for that matter, since you will effectively be alone on the first night. You should of course explain to hotel staff that another person will be joining you for the remaining period of your stay, and again this should cause no problems. It is indeed a very common situation.
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Can someone else check-in for me at hotel?
But the name of the person checking in needs to match the guest's name on the reservation, or else the hotel may suspect fraud and refuse to honor the reservation. Most hotel chains and hotel websites will allow you to input separate billing and guest information when booking a room.Do hotels know if you bring extra people?
In some cases, a hotel may be charging based on how many guests are occupying a room. But in other cases, a hotel may request that information so that they can ensure they are complying with the fire code, or so that in the event of an emergency they will know how many guests should be accounted for.Do you have to say how many people are staying in your hotel room?
The legal reason we ask for the number of guests is in case of emergency. If you have listed only 2 guests in your room, but you have 6 with you, and a fire breaks out...Learn English for Hotel and Tourism: \
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