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Booking a room
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住三个晚上 counts nights, not days, which is the same convention as English and unlike the way Chinese counts trips. 含早餐吗 - does it include breakfast - is worth asking because Chinese hotels often do and often do not mention it. 我在网上订的 heads off confusion at the desk.
Checking in
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需要证件吗 - do you need ID - has one answer in China: yes, a passport, and it will be scanned. 押金 is the deposit, usually taken on a card and released later, and asking 押金多少 up front avoids a surprise. 我预订过了 uses 过 to mark the booking as a completed act.
About the room
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隔音不好 - the soundproofing is poor - is the complaint most likely to matter and the one worth being able to make precisely, because "it's noisy" invites a shrug while a structural fault invites a room change. 能换个安静的吗 is the request that follows it.
Facilities
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有无线网吗 asks about wifi and 密码是多少 asks for the password, which in a Chinese hotel is usually your room number or the phone number on the door. Note 借 in 可以借充电器吗 - to borrow - which is how you ask for a charger rather than buying one.
Asking for things
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请勿打扰 is the sign on the door and is written rather than spoken - 勿 is a classical negative you will meet on signs everywhere and almost never in speech. 明天早上叫醒我 asks for a wake-up call, and 叫醒 - call awake - is a compound that means exactly what its parts say.
Breakfast
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自助餐 is the buffet - literally "self-help meal" - and it is what most Chinese hotel breakfasts are. 有中式早餐吗 asks for the Chinese option, which typically means congee, steamed buns and pickles rather than eggs and toast, and which is usually the better half of the spread.
Changing the booking
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延后退房 - to delay checkout - is often granted for a couple of hours free, which makes 能延后退房吗 one of the more profitable questions in this set. 我改主意了 - I've changed my mind - is a complete and acceptable explanation on its own.
Checking out
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押金退给我 asks for the deposit back and is the step most easily forgotten. 我没用迷你吧 - I didn't use the minibar - pre-empts a charge you would otherwise have to argue about. 住得很舒服 is the polite closing remark, and 得 again attaches the manner to the verb: stayed, and how - comfortably.
Around the hotel
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The front desk is the best local guide you will get, and these are the questions that unlock it. 哪里可以换钱 asks where to change money, which in China increasingly means a bank branch rather than a counter. 有接送服务吗 asks about a shuttle, which many hotels run to the nearest station.
What you thought of it
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性价比 - performance-to-price ratio - is a word Chinese consumers use constantly and English has no single term for. 性价比很高 means good value, and it is high praise. 我写个好评 - I'll leave a good review - is a real currency: staff will sometimes ask for one directly.
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