How is this infuriating?

Would you like to sleep in a bed with clean sheets and have a shower in a clean cubicle?

How do you think that this happens?

This is stupid, you booked an overNIGHT room, you check-in in the evening and check-out in the morning, giving you one night in a hotel room.

If you want more time, book a longer duration and pay more.

I’m really curious what you expect an overnight room would entail

You can ask (and sometimes pay for) early check in and late check out. But yeah the staff needs time to turn over the room.

Just ask staff if you can check in earlier or check out later. They can arrange for such things. Why would you even want to spend your day in a small hotel room? Go out and do something with your time away from home.

Some loyalty programs high status will give you 24 hours in a room, any 24 hours you want…

But you would be spending crazy money to get that status anyway, cheaper to just book two nights when you want more time in the room.