If I check out a few hours after I check in and don't stay overnight, will I get a refund?

The hotel will check out after a few hours of check-in. If it doesn't stay overnight, it will generally refund some money and need to pay the hourly room rate to the hotel.

But guests need to check out temporarily. How much does the hotel charge? At present, there are no relevant laws and regulations to make such detailed provisions. If the hotel has its own regulations, it will inform consumers in advance. So whether to refund the money depends on the hotel's regulations.

In essence, the hotel's business activities are not to produce and sell tangible material products, but to provide an intangible service to the guests with material facilities, and the guests finally get only the utility of a service and the experience of a service process. Therefore, in the hotel's business activities, the process of providing services by the hotel and the process of consuming services by the guests are at the same time and space, and the guests can only enjoy them on the spot, but generally they can't take them away, and the hotel can't inspect the goods in advance and store them afterwards. Of course, there is no patent for intangible services.