I am traveling to Hong Kong in Dec, and I booked Sky city Marriott hotel. My flight arrive at 8AM, but my check in time is 2AM. I requested early check in already, but what is the earliest time I can check in my room? I want to leave all my baggage in the hotel, so I can go visit the city.

seems like you are arriving extremely early.

Many people won't even be checked out yet and they have to have time to clean the rooms.

If you get to check in before noon, I would consider yourself lucky. Even though you have already requested early check in, it's upon availability day of check in; and still, quite often, early check in is not available.

You might want to consider upgrades as well. If you are hoping for an upgrade, early check in seems more unlikely (because many of these same rooms are requesting late check out). Just a thought.

I have checked in at 8am before with no problem and been unable to. Depends on avail. from the night before.

Early check in is never guaranteed. If you want a guaranteed room, book the night before and inform the hotel that you are arriving when you are.

If you just want them to hold your baggage, the bell desk will hold you bags until the room is ready. You are free to explore with no worries.

Wow! really? arriving at 8am for early check in.
I must say that I am not an international traveller. I know it's different in different parts of the world, but 8am seems extremely early even for early check in.

I am aware bell hop can watch your luggage. But, that would make me extremely nervous. If the OP is okay leaving his luggage with the Bell Hop service, they may be a good option if the 8am check in request cannot be honored.

It was an arrival in Rome. It actually may have been 9. My memory isn't as good as it used to be. We didn't want to pay for an extra night. We would have been ok checking the luggage, but the room was ready.

Ive been in the same boat many a time, I usually will make at least 2 reservations, the 1st for the night before Im to arrive and the 2nd for the rest of the time I will be there.

Then before the last time period for CXing passes I check and see whats what, if it looks like theres tons of rooms available I CX the res for the night before I arrive, if it looks like its filling up I keep it and let them know I will be arriving 6-7-8 am

Dont have enough fingers and toes to count the # of times I check-in and the lobby is full of angry folks who werent able to check-in due to no rooms being available. A few times some of them started yelling why am I getting a room when they have been there for a few hrs already. I LUV the look on their faces when the person checking me in tells them simple he paid for the room last night and we held it for him so this way he can go right up and relax.

I'll assume you meant 2PM as hotel policy check-in time (vrs. 2AM written).

Depending on availability from the night before you may or may not be accomodated, however even if your room isn't ready you should have no problem leaving your baggage at the hotel and then going out to explore the city (since your hotel is not located anywhere near the CBD)

As an aside to other posters on this thread that are "surprised" by your early arrival - yes, int'l flights actually do arrive in the early mornings in asia and props like the SkyCity are very attuned to these early flight arrival times.

Most hotels will have a room available if they weren't fully booked the night before. They'll simply give you an unoccupied room.

+1

8 am or 6 am or 10 am, the above stands true, in any part of the world.

Good luck!

a common sense response and thought, but unfortunately not always implemented by various props..........

Yep. There's a European chain where I refuse to stay that makes a practice of denying all early check ins and then shortly after 3:00 pm, all of their rooms magically become clean and available simultanteously. Even if they have empty rooms from the night before, they refuse to give them to guests even at 2:30 pm as a matter of policy; in response, as a matter of policy I refuse to ever stay in their hotels willingly.

and would that unnamed chain be a formerally (partly) owned by LH?

BTW, try early checkins at some Korean props, inc. Marriotts, that likewise rigidly enforce the checkin rules.........

While I am not sure about international travels, I disagree with the 'any part of the world'.

This is making many assumptions. Timing of the year, busy seasons for certain parts of the U.S. (and I'm sure many other parts of the world), events, conferences, etc.

I have seen many hotels sold out. This statement implies hotels do not sell out. It is simply incorrect and an assumtion. Def. not a mistake I would care to make if traveling internationally.

However, the idea listed above to book a separate reservation and cancel based on room availability is a great idea.^

+1^
Gotta love it!^

have done exactly that............
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/marri...occupancy.html