Hate Checking Out Early? A Hotel Chain Rethinks The 11AM Rule With “Overstay Checkout”

The Art Series Hotel chain is reexamining the 11 a.m. checkout, allowing patrons to stay in their rooms until they damn well please (or at least until someone else wants to check in). "Overstay. You’re welcome" is the message behind the world’s latest hotel checkout innovation--a new product to be launched by Australian upmarket hotel chain Art Series Hotels in December. The idea is simple: You don’t check out of your hotel room until someone else checks in. Hailed by Art Series Chief Executive Will Deague as "a genuine product innovation," "Overstay Checkout" is an idea from Naked Communications Melbourne--the agency behind the award-winning "Steal Banksy" initiative for the hotel chain last year in which visitors were offered a piece of Banksy artwork if they could steal it from the wall where it was hung without being caught.Read Full Story