Originally Posted by
Adam1222
While you are certainly entitled to your experiences, the majority of commenters have been quite clear that they have had different experiences. They have also expressed their view that your repeated invocation of irrelevant information is confusing and comes off, whether intended to or not, poorly. And yet, you tell us how long some stays were.
It seems unlikely that every stay you've had in 45 years, or even the majority of them, have sought check in before the published check-in time. It is also unlikely that you remember what time you checked in to hotels--particularly since, as you admitted upthread, you apparently had no idea that standard check in time was 3pm. Indeed, if you did not know what time standard check-in time was, how would you have known what time check-in was?
Again, your experiences in the 1980s are valid and wonderful. But hotels having designated check-in times that are generally enforced are not new--no matter what your experiences are. While Flyertalk threads do not go back 45 years, there are several threads going back more than a decade ago that reflect experiences and expectations that differ from yours.
Early check in
2AM Check in - early check-in or day before?
Early Check-in at Lima Miraflores Property for $130.00
Extra Fee to Guarantee Early Check-in in Europe?
$75 fee for early check-in?
Early check in annoyance or unrealistic expectations ?
My mother and father owned a hotel in New York City when I was going to High School a block long seven stories and two Penthouses. Most of the guests were permanent residents under rent control. There were no stoves or refrigerators in the rooms. There were a fair number of transient guests.
I was talking to one of the front desk clerks about hotel time. If you checked in before 8:00 A.M. you paid for the day before. If you checked in after 8:00 A.M. that would be your first day.
I remember years probably a little over forty years I arrived at a hotel on Park Avenue near the Walford Astoria at 3:00 A.M. on a late flight from Miami with my two daughters and two nieces.
The front desk clerk told me if I checked in at 3:00 A.M I would have to pay for the night before. He said I could check in after 8:00 A.M.
So, while the children were sleeping, I drove the vehicle through the tunnel to New Jersey and to Staten Island and took the ferry back to Manhattan. Check in the hotel after returning to Manhattan.
Several times I would take an overnight flight from Los Angeles to DCA or IAD. I would stay at the Crystal City Marriott or the Key Bridge Marriott. I would arrive at the hotels before 10:00A.M. never had a problem checking in.
I have posted on other threads that I never looked at the check in time. I make sure that day of arrival and departure were correct. The rate was the Government Per Diem Rate.
Someone else posted he has been staying at Marriott hotels for over forty years and never had a problem checking early.
When I am posting information, I want the reader to know that I have been there. I am not making up a story of my forty-five years at Marriott Hotels.