Check out means to leave a hotel and hand back your room, or to look at something interesting and see what it is like. In the first meaning, the place comes after of: check out of the hotel. The second meaning is informal; people use it to recommend a film, a café or a website: Check out this video.
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check out (of + hotel); check out + noun / check + noun + out; check it out
- We have to check out of the hotel by eleven, so let's pack tonight.
- If you like Italian food, check out the new place near the station.
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First versionWe checked out from the hotel at noon and took a taxi to the airport.
RevisionWe checked out of the hotel at noon and took a taxi to the airport.
From seems logical because you are leaving a place. But check out needs of: check out of the hotel. If you do not name the place, no preposition is needed at all: We checked out at noon.
Check in means the opposite: to arrive and register at a hotel or to register for a flight. Compare: We checked in on Friday and checked out on Sunday. In the second meaning, a pronoun goes between the words: check it out, not check out it.
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Our room is booked until Sunday, so on Sunday morning we will return the keys and ___.
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check out — Guests return the keys when they leave at the end of their stay, so check out is needed. Check in describes arriving, and that happened on the first day.
Describe the last day of a trip. Say what time you checked out of the hotel and where you went next.
On our last day in Kazan, we checked out of the hotel at ten and went to the market before our train.
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