Checkout Time at the Dead-End Hotel

Checkout Time at the Dead-End Hotel is the twenty-seventh book in the Give Yourself Goosebumps gamebook series. It was published in 1998.

The cover illustration depicts a yellow-green skeletal bellhop with a menacing look, standing at a reception desk handing a key to a customer.

Blurb
YOU CAN CHECK IN, BUT YOU CAN'T CHECK OUT!

You and three classmates are on a school trip when your car breaks down. Too bad. Because now you have to check into Hotel Morte — otherwise known as the Dead Hotel!

Guess what! The guests in this hotel are all ghosts. And they're out to make you see-through too! You can either try to escape through the doggie door — or search for somebody named Drew Mortegarth, who claims to hold the key to your escape. But whatever you do — don't fall asleep. Or you WON'T live to regret it!

The choice is yours in this scary GOOSEBUMPS adventure that's packed with over 20 super-spooky endings!

Plot
You and friends B.J. Matson, Moira O'Neil, and Jamie Kaplan are on the first day of a school trip to Washington D.C., until your car breaks down. You and your friends check in a hotel called Hotel Morte on the side of an abandoned highway. The hotel turns out to be inhabited by ghosts and the only way out is to locate the only other human resident named Drew Mortegarth, who claims to hold the key to your exit.

List of endings
There are fifteen bad endings, three ambiguous endings, and three good endings.

Trivia

 * There is only one storyline in this book.
 * The phrase "no bones about it" from Deep in the Jungle of Doom and Welcome to the Wicked Wax Museum appears in this story.
 * A solution to Into the Jaws of Doom is included in the back of the US edition of this book, but it is not included in international releases.
 * Some of the plot elements in this book reference The Shining.
 * The back of the book references a line from Freddy Krueger from "A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: the Dream Master"