How to Ask About Storing Luggage in Spanish (Before Check-In or After Check-Out)
Learn to ask in Latin American Spanish if you can leave your bags at a hotel or hostel before check-in or after check-out, and how to understand pickup instructions.
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When you arrive before your room is ready, or your flight leaves hours after check-out, you need a simple way to ask if your bags can stay. In Latin American Spanish, the key verb is guardar (to store or keep). This lesson gives you the exact phrases to ask 'Can I store my bags here?', to say when you will pick them up, and to understand the answer you get at the front desk.
By the end, you can…
- ask if I can store my luggage at a hotel or hostel before check-in or after check-out.
- say when I will pick up my bags and understand basic pickup instructions in Spanish.
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¿Puedo guardar mis maletas aquí?
Can I store my suitcases here?
PWEH-doh gwar-DAR mees ma-LEH-tas ah-KEE
The most direct and widely understood way to ask. Use it at a hotel or hostel front desk. In much of Latin America, maletas is the everyday word for luggage.
¿Puedo dejar mi equipaje aquí antes del check-in?
Can I leave my luggage here before check-in?
PWEH-doh deh-HAR mee eh-kee-PAH-heh ah-KEE AHN-tes del CHEK-in
Equipaje is a common general word for luggage. Use antes del check-in when you have arrived early and your room is not ready yet.
¿Puedo dejar las maletas después del check-out?
Can I leave the bags after check-out?
PWEH-doh deh-HAR las ma-LEH-tas des-PWEHS del CHEK-out
Use this when you have already checked out but your flight or bus leaves later. Check-out is widely used as a loanword in Latin American hotels.
¿Hasta qué hora puedo recoger mis maletas?
Until what time can I pick up my bags?
OOS-tah keh OH-rah PWEH-doh reh-koh-HER mees ma-LEH-tas
Recoger means to pick up or collect. Ask this to learn the pickup deadline before you leave your bags.
Vengo por mis maletas a las seis.
I'll come for my bags at six.
BEN-goh por mees ma-LEH-tas ah las SAYS
A simple way to state your pickup time. Vengo por... literally means 'I'm coming for...' and is very natural at a front desk.
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Useful pattern
The core pattern is ¿Puedo + infinitive + ...? meaning 'Can I ...?'. For this topic, the two most useful verbs are guardar (to store) and dejar (to leave). Examples: ¿Puedo guardar mis maletas aquí? and ¿Puedo dejar mi equipaje aquí? Both are polite and standard. To add a time condition, use antes de (before) or después de (after): antes del check-in, después del check-out. Note that del is the contraction of de + el.
When to use it
Use guardar when you want the staff to keep your bags in a secure storage area. Use dejar when you simply mean 'leave' your bags somewhere while you go out. At check-in, say: ¿Puedo dejar mi equipaje aquí antes del check-in? At check-out, say: ¿Puedo dejar las maletas después del check-out? If you need the pickup time, ask: ¿Hasta qué hora puedo recoger mis maletas? These phrases work at hotels, hostels, and many bus stations.
Listen to each line, then take one part and reply out loud.
Buenos días. Llegué temprano. ¿Puedo dejar mi equipaje aquí antes del check-in?
Good morning. I arrived early. Can I leave my luggage here before check-in?BWEH-nos DEE-ahs. yeh-GHEH tem-PRAH-noh. PWEH-doh deh-HAR mee eh-kee-PAH-heh ah-KEE AHN-tes del CHEK-inSí, claro. Puede dejarlo en la recepción. ¿Hasta qué hora lo va a recoger?
Yes, of course. You can leave it at the front desk. Until what time will you pick it up?SEE, KLAH-roh. PWEH-deh deh-HAR-loh en la reh-sep-SYON. OOS-tah keh OH-rah loh bah ah reh-koh-HERVengo por mis maletas a las seis de la tarde. ¿Está bien?
I'll come for my bags at six in the evening. Is that okay?BEN-goh por mees ma-LEH-tas ah las SAYS deh la TAR-deh. es-TAH BYENPerfecto. Aquí le doy un comprobante. Guarde este papel.
Perfect. Here I'll give you a receipt. Keep this paper.per-FEK-toh. ah-KEE leh doy oon kom-proh-BAN-teh. GWAR-deh ES-teh pah-PELA little context goes a long way
In Latin American Spanish, hotel staff usually address guests with usted, so phrases like ¿Puedo...? and ¿Hasta qué hora...? are appropriate and polite. In Spain, you may hear maletas and equipaje too, but check-in and check-out are common loanwords across the region. In some places, guardar can also mean 'to keep' or 'to save', so context makes the luggage meaning clear.
One thing to watch for
Using ¿Puedo guardar mis maletas aquí? but then saying 'Voy a recogerlos' with the wrong pronoun.
Try this instead: Maletas is feminine plural, so use las: Voy a recogerlas a las seis. If you say equipaje (masculine singular), use lo: Voy a recogerlo a las seis. Match the pronoun to the noun you used.
Your turn
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1How would you ask if you can store your suitcases at the hotel before check-in?
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¿Puedo guardar mis maletas aquí antes del check-in?
This uses puedo + guardar, the most direct pattern for storing bags, and antes del check-in for the early arrival. You could also say dejar mi equipaje instead of guardar mis maletas.
2You left your bags after check-out. How do you ask until what time you can pick them up?
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¿Hasta qué hora puedo recoger mis maletas?
Hasta qué hora asks for a deadline, and recoger means to pick up. A valid alternative is ¿Hasta qué hora puedo pasar por mis maletas?
3The clerk says: Puede dejarlas en la recepción. What does this mean?
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You can leave them at the front desk.
Puede is the polite usted form of poder, dejarlas means 'to leave them' (feminine plural, referring to maletas), and recepción is the front desk or reception area.
Ask ¿Puedo guardar mis maletas aquí? or ¿Puedo dejar mi equipaje aquí? before check-in or after check-out, then confirm the pickup time with ¿Hasta qué hora puedo recoger mis maletas?
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