Hotel Check-In

Walk up to any hotel reception desk in Latin America and handle the entire check-in on your own, no pointing, no English, no stress.

What you'll learn

This topic takes you through a complete conversation between a traveler and a hotel receptionist, from the opening Buenos días to collecting the key and heading upstairs. Along the way you will learn dozens of useful words and phrases: confirming a reservation, describing rooms and their features, handing over documents, signing forms, and asking about the things guests actually care about, like breakfast hours, wifi, the pool, and check-out time. Everything here works far beyond hotels. The same language helps you at hostels, guesthouses, and short-term rentals from Mexico City to Buenos Aires, and anywhere else Spanish is spoken.

How the practice works

Each quiz follows the conversation the way it really unfolds, one message at a time, like a chat on your phone. You read a line, listen to it spoken by native Spanish voices, and then build the reply yourself by assembling it from words. That combination trains reading, listening comprehension, and sentence structure all at once. Sessions take just a few minutes, so you can squeeze one in over coffee, and you can repeat any quiz whenever you want a refresher before a trip.

Which floor is the third floor?

Here is a detail that trips up many visitors: in Spanish, the ground floor is usually called la planta baja, and counting starts from the floor above it. So when the receptionist says the pool is on la tercera planta, take the elevator three levels up from the lobby, not two. It is a small thing, but knowing it saves you from wandering the wrong hallway with a towel.

What you'll be able to do

By the time you finish, this whole situation will feel routine. You will understand the receptionist at natural speed, answer without translating in your head, and ask your own questions confidently, which is exactly how a smooth trip begins.