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by ghshephard 5606 days ago
Which of the three isn't (generally) true all over the world:

  o Restaurants open at 11:00 AM.
  o You check out of your hotel no earlier than 11:00 AM 
  o You can check in at 3:00 PM.
Certainly different hotels allow things like Early Checkin (I've checked in as early as 8:00 AM in hotels with a lot of vacancy), and late checkout (most hotels will let you check out at 12:00, and for a small fee, 1:00 is usually no problem). And yes, there are lots of restaurants that only do dinners, or breakfasts/lunches - but for a restaurant that does two shifts - 11:00 AM is usually a guaranteed time for it being open.

But, I don't think I've ever been to a country where the checkin/checkout/restaurant opening wasn't generally true.

Admittedly, I haven't been to the "One Time Zone China" - that might throw my theory out the door...
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salvadors 5606 days ago
Pretty much none of those are generally true across Europe.

Restaurant opening hours vary dramatically by country, largely due people tending to eat at very different times in different countries. To pick a restaurant I walked past yesterday: http://www.restaurant-thierry.fr/index.php?p=contact — open 12pm–3pm and 7pm–11pm. From my experience here those lunchtime hours are fairly common, although more restaurants would open earlier than than in the evening (unlike Spain, where lots of restaurants don't open until at least 9pm or 10pm at night).

On the assumption that #2 is "no later than", then where there's consistency at all it would be noon, rather than 11am.

Check-in has almost no consistency at all. I'm currently in France, and lots of the hotels I've been looking at have a 6pm earliest check-in. Many others are noon or 1pm. I haven't seen one yet that's 3pm.

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