Checking Out

 from A Hotel

Checking out is not merely packing up your things, enclosing them in a suitcase and bringing the zipper up to its end. It’s not as swift as the air on which you could just say “goodbye” to the personnel.

Leaving the hotel is not as easy as counting one-two-three. Sometimes, the time you desired to be out of the hotel is beyond your expectation. It’s often minutes after your projected time. It is because you haven’t organized the things needed to be fixed before going out. Here are some to take note of:

First, observe keenly on the things around the room. You might want to take glances with your belongings. Are all of them 100% in your bag? There will be a time when you had presumes that you already have what you need well in fact, it’s evidently not. You might have left one tiny piece of yours under the blankets. Better look under the bed too. Pull the drawers. Walk in the bathroom. Check if everything inside is owned by hotel and not yours (except, of course, from what are beside you and those are your luggage). As they say, regrets do come late. If you have figured out that you have lost something after checking out, you would have less chance to bring it back to you.

Second, be a keeper. It’s not every day that you can stay in a hotel. For some, it’s like once in a blue moon. Well, it’s nice if you have taken remembrance from the hotel. Take souvenirs! It’s not literally that you will buy. You can take things you know you have purchased once you checked in. Say for example, plastic/paper bag that has the hotel name written on it.  Ballpens and other similar things can be taken too. Hence, just be sensitive enough that the ones you’re taking would not bring additional charges to your bill. Having done so much, you would have something to look back from one of your diaries, journals and be able to share how great the hotel is and that you were once a guest. Thus, you can say that you became a part of the history of the hotel.

Next, double check your receipts and bills. Hotels are managed by humans. There are no perfect humans and that coincides that there are no perfect hotels too. They might have mistakenly typed numerical values on your receipts and bills. Make it sure that the items and the services embedded on the papers were purchased by you. It’s not being thrifty. It’s being practical. Our contemporary era is more about of being wise.

Finally, be generous enough to give tips. Housekeepers have their wages but if you have seen them did their job very well with outmost sincerity; it’s time to show how humans are innately made – to be kind to others. Give tips. Some might be worried of giving certain amount of quantity. Well, who can’t give other things aside from money? What’s important is your heart.