check out of sth
phr. v..phr. v.. To complete the process of leaving a hotel by paying your bill and returning your key.
phr. v.. To formally settle one's bill and depart from a hotel or other temporary accommodation.
We need to check out of the hotel by 11 AM.
After a wonderful vacation, they checked out of the resort and headed to the airport.
The delegation checked out of the five-star hotel under a cloud of media scrutiny following the summit's collapse.
- Particles
- out of
- Separability
- inseparable
- Pattern
- check + out + of + object
The object is usually a hotel, motel, or other form of temporary lodging.
Contrast directly with 'check in' (to arrive and register at a hotel); these two form a common, essential pair for travel vocabulary.
We checked out the hotel at noon.We checked out of the hotel at noon.The preposition 'of' is required to mean 'leave'; 'to check out something' means to look at or investigate it.