Private Concierge fora Meaningful Stay
The same destination — no right way, no wrong way, only a better arrangement with us.
I. Your Advisor
No right or wrong way,
only a better arrangement
Claude
Founder & Lead Advisor
Late Checkout is a private advisory for those who already live between the cities that matter — and who would rather not think about the logistics. We attend to the things that decide whether a trip is memorable or merely fine: the room, the table, the season, the man at the front desk who knows you're coming. The rest, you needn't think about.
I keep places in London, Hong Kong, and Tokyo, and travel rather a lot from each. The calendar is firm about where to be when — Chinese New Year in Hong Kong, the Highlands at the back end of summer, Kyoto for the leaves, the Gulf when London isn't worth being in. Every recommendation here is personal.
6 months of any given year, I'm living out of hotels somewhere across 40+ countries — testing what the market actually delivers against what it promises. Every property I recommend, I've stayed in, most across more than one season. When I tell you to ask for room 506, I mean room 506.
II. Services
From the first call
to the keys at the door
A single stay, a hotel residence for a month, a season abroad, or an ongoing arrangement — quietly, and as you prefer.
I.
Essential
ComplimentaryNo charge to you
A single stay, properly handled. Tell us the hotel you have in mind — we make the reservation, and you arrive to the upgrades and amenities that come with booking through us.
- Considered destination advice
- All hotel reservations handled
- Upgrades and amenities at preferred properties
- No fee — simply tell us where you would like to stay
II.
Signature
From £500Per engagement
The full arrangement. Itinerary, reservations, and someone on call from the day you leave to the morning you return.
- Full itinerary, including complex and multi-stop trips
- Multiple proposals until the trip feels right
- Restaurants and experiences arranged
- Group travel handled end to end
- Someone on the line around the clock, from the road
III.
The Concierge
MonthlyAn ongoing engagement
The arrangement we keep for a small group of clients. Year-round, end-to-end, by introduction only.
- A dedicated advisor on retainer
- Reachable around the clock, 24/7
- Last-minute hotels and transport, anywhere
- First call on the calendar
- An annual sit-down on the year ahead
III. Benefits
What every client receives
An upgrade where one is to be had — quietly arranged, never demanded.
Property credit on every stay, and materially more on a suite. Spent on dinner, the spa, or rather more wine than is strictly sensible.
Breakfast for two, every morning. Eggs done how you like them.
Early in, late out — arranged before you arrive. As one would hope, frankly.
Third- and fifth-night arrangements where they exist. Not advertised — we ask.
A note from the General Manager waiting at the desk. Nothing showier than that.
The Late Checkout Advantage
Direct access
Real relationships
General Managers we have met in person, and direct lines well past the front desk — the restaurants, the bars, the people who make a city open up.
We spend half the year in these hotels ourselves. What we recommend, we have lived — nothing second-hand, nothing on trust alone.
Preferred-partner standing with the world's finest houses — Four Seasons, Aman, Belmond, and beyond. It is what turns a reservation into recognition, upgrades, and credits.
Affiliated — Fora · Virtuoso network
IV. Journal
Notes from the industry
Where we've been, what room we've stayed in, which room number to ask for. The rest is just gossip.
“Late Checkout arranged our stay in Kyoto during peak cherry blossom season — tatami suite at the Ritz-Carlton, the general manager welcomed us personally. Something that simply wouldn't have happened had we booked directly.”
V. & J. M.
Hong Kong
V. Contact
Let’s talk
Tell us where you’re headed — or simply that you’d like to begin. We reply personally, and take it from there.
