Check-in times seem to be getting later and later

[LittleMissUnreasonable]

We've booked into an Air B&B with family next week for a mini break, with the accommodation on the first day being on our half way point. We assumed check in times are normally between about 12pm and 3pm so thought we would arrange to arrive for about 3pm. We've checked the listing and check in isn't until 5 pm!? It seems very late so was looking forward to a lazy breakfast in the accomodation the next day and planning to leave for about 11am for the next destination. Check out time is 10am?!

I always thought that if you had a late check-in time, they'd compensate for this by letting you check out a bit later or vice versa. It's not the times so much that bother me, but it's the fact that you won't be able to enjoy the property until after 5:00 p.m. before having to race around in the morning to be out for 10:00 a.m. Considering what places charge these days, it seems a bit cheeky. Not a huge property that requires loads of cleaning as well. 3 bed cottage with a pet.

Check in times are the first thing I look at when booking an Airbnb and base my choices on that.

I use them less and less as standards have really gone down, last check in, early check out, they want you to bring house and land with you down to bin bags and want a practically full clean done on exit.

Have a few short hotel stays coming up and am looking forward to it!

I stay in Travelodge quite a lot for work - whilst not the most luxurious, they do allow a 2pm check in and a midday checkout which is far more do-able than a 4pm / 10am option

And Travelodge and Premier wil normally look after your luggage for you before you check in and after you ckeck out, so you can leave it and go off and do somethg else.

But unless they've been fully occupied, they can put early check ins in whatever rooms weren't used the night before, and don't need cleaning. Air BnB hosts can't do that.

(And if too many people opted for early check in and late checkout, hotels wouldn't have much time to turn the rooms around.)

YANBU. Those timings are taking the piss. I have never had a hotel check in time that was later than 4pm. By 5pm the day is almost gone!

Last summer I was told by a hotelier that they had to move their check in and out times by an hour each way to create a longer guest-free period, to ensure that all the rooms got cleaned in time because they were struggling to recruit housekeeping staff, and were making do with fewer employees than were ideally needed.