Check Into Any Spanish Hotel With 3 Sentences

The 3 sentences

1. Tengo una reserva a nombre de García. — I have a reservation under García.
2. ¿A qué hora es el desayuno? — What time is breakfast?
3. ¿Tienen wifi? ¿Cuál es la contraseña? — Do you have wifi? What’s the password?

That’s check-in done. Everything else is backup.

Backup phrases

Use tener (to have) for what you’ve got, querer for what you want, and estar to ask where things are.

4. Quisiera hacer el check-in. — I’d like to check in.
5. ¿A qué hora es el check-out? — What time is checkout?
6. Necesito una habitación para dos noches. — I need a room for two nights.
7. ¿Tienen habitaciones disponibles? — Do you have rooms available?
8. La llave de la habitación, por favor. — The room key, please.
9. ¿Está incluido el desayuno? — Is breakfast included?
10. ¿Dónde está el ascensor? — Where is the lift?
11. El aire acondicionado no funciona. — The air conditioning doesn’t work.
12. Necesito más toallas. — I need more towels.
13. ¿Puede llamarme un taxi? — Can you call me a taxi?
14. Quisiera dejar las maletas aquí. — I’d like to leave my bags here.
15. Quisiera pagar. — I’d like to pay.

Quisiera is the polite “I would like”—use it with hotel staff. ¿Dónde está…? asks where something is. For what the hotel has, use plural tienen (¿Tienen wifi?, ¿Tienen habitaciones disponibles?): you are speaking to the desk as a whole. For a request to the person in front of you, use usted (¿Puede llamarme un taxi?). At checkout, Quisiera pagar is enough. Check-in and check-out are the words hotels in Spain use. These patterns cover most hotel situations. For more verbs that work the same way, see the 20 basic Spanish verbs.

Try it now: Picture yourself at the hotel desk.
Say sentences 1, 2, and 3 out loud.
If you can say them without reading, you’re ready.

For a full path through Spanish verbs, start with our Spanish learning guide.