enjoy your stay

Meaning

This is a polite phrase used by hotel staff, hosts, or locals to wish visitors a pleasant time during their visit to a specific place, hotel, or country. It is friendly, welcoming, and commonly heard at reception desks or homestays.

Examples

• Welcome to the Grand Hotel, sir; here is your key, and enjoy your stay!

  Welcome to the Grand Hotel, sir; here is your key, and enjoy your stay!

• We hope you enjoy your stay in London despite the rainy weather.

  We hope you enjoy your stay in London despite the rainy weather.

• Here are your room keys, enjoy your stay with us.

  Here are your room keys, enjoy your stay with us.

• Thank you for choosing our Airbnb, enjoy your stay!

  Thank you for choosing our Airbnb, enjoy your stay!

• The receptionist smiled warmly and said, 'Enjoy your stay!'

  The receptionist smiled warmly and said, 'Enjoy your stay!'

Common Mistakes

• ✗ Enjoy your staying.

  ✓ Enjoy your stay.

  The word 'stay' is used as a noun in this phrase, not the gerund 'staying'.

• ✗ Have a good stay.

  ✓ Enjoy your stay.

  While 'have a good stay' is grammatically correct, 'enjoy your stay' is the standard and far more natural phrase used in the hospitality industry.

Related Expressions

Practice

• Here is your room key, sir. ___!

  💡 A polite phrase to wish a guest a good time at a hotel.

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  Enjoy your stay

• We hope you ___ in our beautiful city.

  💡 Use this to wish visitors a good time during their visit.

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  enjoy your stay