Late checkout at Hilton properties just got more expensive. The company is planning to roll out standardized checkout pricing across all of its brands sometime in 2026. This is being done in an effort to drive revenue for hotel owners.
This change was first reported by Loyalty Lobby and pricing for late checkout will vary between $40-60 depending on the brand. Late checkout has also been quietly removed from the benefits posters for Hilton HHonors members.
Unlike Marriott and Hyatt, Hilton has never guaranteed late checkout, even for its top tier Diamond members. It has always been done on a space-available basis but I expect that the “space” won’t be there for many customers looking for a complimentary late checkout.
The upcoming late checkout pricing is broken down my brand below.
| Brand | Rate |
|---|---|
| Hilton Garden Inn | $40 |
| Home2 Suites by Hilton | $40 |
| Homewood Suites by Hilton | $40 |
| Hampton Inn | $40 |
| Tru by Hilton | $40 |
| Tempo | $40 |
| LivSmart | $40 |
| Spark | $40 |
| Doubletree | $50 |
| Embassy Suites | $50 |
| Tapestry Collection by Hilton | $50 |
| Signia | $50 |
| Motto | $50 |
| Hilton | $60 |
| Canopy | $60 |
| Curio Collection | $60 |
| Conrad | $60 |
| LXR Hotels and Resorts | $60 |
| Waldorf Astoria Hotels and Resorts | $60 |
The prices listed above reflect pre-tax pricing so you can expect to pay roughly 10% more if you decide to add this to your stay.
Individual hotels will be able to control the number of late checkouts available for sale. This includes blocking certain days of the week, event dates, and changing the availability based on supply and demand at the property. Guests will have the ability to add late checkout from the time of booking up until 72 hours before the stay begins.
Personally, this is a very unfortunate development for Hilton loyalists. While the company has never guaranteed late checkout to its Hilton HHonors elite members like Hyatt and Marriott, I have never had an issue getting late checkout as a Diamond member unless the property was at capacity.
A few guests may see the ability to confirm late checkout as a perk, like a situation where you have a late flight, but I see this as a further erosion of benefits and a cash grab by the hotels. As one commentor on X put it, “if they’re going to charge me for late checkout, do I get a discount for late check-in?”
Summary
Hilton Hotels Corporation is preparing to roll out a new pricing chart for late checkout across all of its properties. Individual hotels can set availability parameters based on demand but, I’d expect to see the number of complimentary late checkouts plummet.
The complimentary checkout will be 12 pm which was the standard check out just a few years ago.
I just had a nice stay at the Conrad Centennial, Singapore through AmEx FIne Hotels with a confirmed late check out extended an hotel to 5pm Score! I had a mid morning SQ Suites to FRA and spent the night in the Private Room nap room. Very nice!
I wonder if AmEx will tweak the FHR benefits since it guarantees late checkout or if Hilton properties will just have to play along. Hopefully the latter.
Hilton has already been pulling ahead as the most expensive of the major brands. I am shocked when I see Hilton prices these days, even considering that all hotel prices have gone up obscenely. Before COVID, average per night was in the $100 to $120 range across hotel brands, and you could usually get the $120 ones down closer to $100. Now the average seems to be in the $140 to $200 range, depending on location and day of the week. Hilton normally is on the higher end of that scale, putting themselves in the lower part of that range only with prepayment options and advance sales that require multiple-night stays and two-to-three weeks lead time for free cancellations.
Again, all of the hotel brands are way too expensive now in their cost; I do not believe they lost so much money during COVID that these increased prices are justifiable now. (They had government support during that time!) Greed (probably due to wanting to satisfy investors) seems to be the motivating factor. But even so, Hilton stands out as excessively high, and as having introduced restrictive prepayment and semi-flex tiers to give the illusion of competitive pricing with lower-priced high-end chains. This late checkout fee just adds to the greed. I have made a point to stay at Hiltons in the past, but I rarely consider them seriously as options anymore. (Marriott is normally noticeably cheaper with using traditional cancellation options.) In fact, given the higher pricing across the board, I am starting to favor Choice and Best Western, at least some of the time to keep costs down
Most of my travel these days is to New York and I find Marriott properties to be almost double what the equivalent Hilton property is. Marriott wants over $700 a night for a Courtyard while I can get a full flagged Hilton for $399.