check out — leave a hotel
phrasal verbB1IELTS 5+neutralcommon
to pay your bill and officially leave a hotel or other place you have stayed in.
Say it like a native
Textbook We must settle our account and vacate the hotel by 11.
Native We need to check out by 11.
'Settle our account and vacate' is formal; 'check out' is the standard hotel term.
Pattern: check out (of something)
In use
- We need to check out of the hotel by 11 a.m.travel
- During my last trip, I almost forgot to check out of the hostel before catching my train.IELTS speaking
Common mistake
✗ We checked out from the hotel at 10.
✓ We checked out of the hotel at 10.
'Check out OF a hotel', not 'from'.
Common collocations
check out of— of the hotel, by 11, early, late
Don't confuse it
Not the same as 'check in,' which means to arrive and register at a hotel.
Related
- check out (examine or look at) — Another meaning of 'check out' is 'examine or look at'; compare the examples to keep the meanings separate.