diff --git a/client/src/components/Roadtrip/RoadtripSidebar.tsx b/client/src/components/Roadtrip/RoadtripSidebar.tsx
index aee4d1067..0e2bfeae2 100644
--- a/client/src/components/Roadtrip/RoadtripSidebar.tsx
+++ b/client/src/components/Roadtrip/RoadtripSidebar.tsx
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import { useRoadtripSettings } from '../../hooks/useRoadtripSettings'
 import React, { useState } from 'react'
 import {
   CarFront, Footprints, Bike, Zap, AlertTriangle,
-  ParkingSquare, Shuffle, Fuel, Clock, Spline, Ban, Plus, RotateCcw, X, BatteryCharging, Moon, Milestone,
+  ParkingSquare, Shuffle, Fuel, Clock, Spline, Ban, Plus, RotateCcw, X, BatteryCharging, Moon, Milestone, LogOut,
   type LucideIcon,
 } from 'lucide-react'
 import MDancingTrek from '../../mobile/components/MDancingTrek'
@@ -965,7 +965,10 @@ function CheckoutDeparture({ stop, entry }: { stop: RoadtripStop; entry?: Schedu
   if (stop.checkoutAt === undefined || !entry?.departure) return null
   return <Tooltip label={t('roadtrip.spill.departs', { time: formatClockTime(entry.departure, is12h) })}>
     <span dir="ltr" tabIndex={0} className="inline-flex shrink-0 items-center gap-1 rounded bg-surface-secondary px-1 py-0.5 align-middle whitespace-nowrap font-medium text-[length:calc(10px*var(--fs-scale-caption,1))] leading-none tabular-nums text-content-muted">
-      <Clock size={10} aria-hidden />{formatClockTime(entry.departure, is12h)}
+      {/* Leaving, not just a time of day: this chip is the one clock in the rail that
+          says when you give the room back, and beside an arrival it read as a second
+          arrival. The door-out mark is what a hotel desk calls check-out. */}
+      <LogOut size={10} aria-hidden />{formatClockTime(entry.departure, is12h)}
     </span>
   </Tooltip>
 }
diff --git a/shared/src/roadtrip/assemble.ts b/shared/src/roadtrip/assemble.ts
index d5b8a3ebb..126c483b6 100644
--- a/shared/src/roadtrip/assemble.ts
+++ b/shared/src/roadtrip/assemble.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { spurFor } from './accessSpur';
 import { pointAtMeters } from './corridor';
 import type { RoadtripDayBoundary } from './day-boundary.schema';
 import { planDayWindow, type DayWindow } from './dayWindow';
-import { spillChains } from './nightSpill';
+import { earliestFreeMinute, spillChains } from './nightSpill';
 import type {
   PlanDay,
   QuietDay,
@@ -77,6 +77,9 @@ export function assembleRoadtrip({
       )
     : null;
   const automaticSchedule = !!timed && timed.issue === null;
+  // Same floor the spill chains use: a night booked into the next morning holds the
+  // traveller until check-out, so the day it lands in cannot start before that.
+  const heldUntil = earliestFreeMinute([...plan, ...quietDays]);
   const displayChains = automaticSchedule
     ? timed.chains
     : timed?.issue
@@ -93,6 +96,7 @@ export function assembleRoadtrip({
                 departureAt: s.checkoutAt === undefined ? undefined : s.checkoutAt - d.dayNumber * 1440,
               })),
               d.stops.slice(0, -1).map((s, i) => storedLegFor(s, d.stops[i + 1]!)?.seg.duration),
+              { notBefore: heldUntil.get(d.dayNumber) ?? null },
             ),
           }))
       : splitScheduledDays(chains, [...plan, ...quietDays], storedLegFor);
diff --git a/shared/src/roadtrip/nightSpill.spec.ts b/shared/src/roadtrip/nightSpill.spec.ts
index 3093959c1..e49d6af5d 100644
--- a/shared/src/roadtrip/nightSpill.spec.ts
+++ b/shared/src/roadtrip/nightSpill.spec.ts
@@ -276,4 +276,68 @@ describe('spillChains', () => {
     expect(chains[1]!.spills).toHaveLength(1);
     expect(chains[1]!.spills[0]!).toMatchObject({ at: 0, count: 2, fromDayNumber: 1 });
   });
+
+  describe('a night booked into the next morning holds that morning', () => {
+    // Check in on day 1 at 08:00, check out on day 2 at 08:00. Until the room is
+    // handed back the traveller is at the hotel, so day 2 cannot quietly start at
+    // 07:00 somewhere else as if the night had ended at midnight.
+    const hotel = () => stop({
+      assignmentId: 1, name: 'Mercure Hamburg', checkInTime: '08:00',
+      checkoutAt: 2 * 1440 + 480,
+    });
+
+    it('FE-NIGHTSPILL-013: a stop pinned before check-out keeps its clock and is flagged late', () => {
+      const plan = [
+        day(1, 1, [hotel()]),
+        day(2, 2, [stop({ assignmentId: 2, name: 'Hotel Panorama', time: '07:00' })]),
+      ];
+
+      const chains = spillChains(plan, [], everyLeg(11));
+      const dayTwo = chains.find((c) => c.dayNumber === 2)!;
+
+      // The hour the traveller chose is never moved.
+      expect(dayTwo.schedule.entries[0]!.arrival).toBe('07:00');
+      // But it cannot be reached: the room goes back an hour after it.
+      expect(dayTwo.schedule.warnings).toContainEqual({ index: 0, code: 'late', minutes: 60 });
+    });
+
+    it('FE-NIGHTSPILL-014: a stop with no clock of its own starts at check-out, not at nothing', () => {
+      const plan = [
+        day(1, 1, [hotel()]),
+        day(2, 2, [stop({ assignmentId: 2, name: 'Bergedorf' })]),
+      ];
+
+      const chains = spillChains(plan, [], everyLeg(11));
+
+      expect(chains.find((c) => c.dayNumber === 2)!.schedule.entries[0]!.arrival).toBe('08:00');
+    });
+
+    it('FE-NIGHTSPILL-015: the days between a longer stay are left alone', () => {
+      // Monday to Thursday: you sleep there, you do not sit there. Only the day the
+      // check-out falls in is held.
+      const plan = [
+        day(1, 1, [stop({ assignmentId: 1, name: 'Mercure Hamburg', checkInTime: '08:00', checkoutAt: 4 * 1440 + 480 })]),
+        day(2, 2, [stop({ assignmentId: 2, name: 'Speicherstadt' })]),
+        day(4, 4, [stop({ assignmentId: 3, name: 'Bergedorf' })]),
+      ];
+
+      const chains = spillChains(plan, [], everyLeg(11));
+
+      expect(chains.find((c) => c.dayNumber === 2)!.schedule.entries[0]!.arrival).toBeNull();
+      expect(chains.find((c) => c.dayNumber === 4)!.schedule.entries[0]!.arrival).toBe('08:00');
+    });
+
+    it('FE-NIGHTSPILL-016: a check-out on the same day it started binds nothing', () => {
+      // A day room, or a stay whose end day is the day it started: the stops after it
+      // already follow through the leg chain and need no floor of their own.
+      const plan = [
+        day(1, 1, [stop({ assignmentId: 1, name: 'Day room', checkInTime: '08:00', checkoutAt: 1 * 1440 + 480 })]),
+        day(2, 2, [stop({ assignmentId: 2, name: 'Bergedorf' })]),
+      ];
+
+      const chains = spillChains(plan, [], everyLeg(11));
+
+      expect(chains.find((c) => c.dayNumber === 2)!.schedule.entries[0]!.arrival).toBeNull();
+    });
+  });
 });
diff --git a/shared/src/roadtrip/nightSpill.ts b/shared/src/roadtrip/nightSpill.ts
index 9c51af731..07185044d 100644
--- a/shared/src/roadtrip/nightSpill.ts
+++ b/shared/src/roadtrip/nightSpill.ts
@@ -54,6 +54,35 @@ interface Placed {
   from: RoadtripStop | undefined;
 }
 
+/**
+ * The minute each day is free to start on, for the days a booking still holds.
+ *
+ * A night booked into the next morning does not end at midnight: the room is given
+ * back at check-out, and until then the traveller is at the hotel and not at the
+ * first stop of the new day. Without this each day was scheduled from nothing, so a
+ * stop pinned before check-out read as perfectly fine.
+ *
+ * Only the day the check-out falls in. A stay running Monday to Thursday leaves
+ * Tuesday and Wednesday alone, which is the point: you sleep there, you do not sit
+ * there. And the bound is a floor, never a move. A stop with a clock of its own
+ * keeps it and collects the late warning any leg it cannot make would give it.
+ */
+export function earliestFreeMinute(days: PlanDay[]): Map<number, number> {
+  const held = new Map<number, number>();
+  for (const day of days) {
+    for (const stop of day.stops) {
+      if (stop.checkoutAt === undefined) continue;
+      const checkoutDay = Math.floor(stop.checkoutAt / 1440);
+      // A check-out on the stop's own day binds nothing: that is a day trip, and the
+      // stops after it already follow through the leg chain.
+      if (checkoutDay <= day.dayNumber) continue;
+      const minute = stop.checkoutAt - checkoutDay * 1440;
+      held.set(checkoutDay, Math.max(held.get(checkoutDay) ?? 0, minute));
+    }
+  }
+  return held;
+}
+
 export function spillChains(plan: PlanDay[], quietDays: QuietDay[], legFor: LegLookup): SpillChain[] {
   const all: PlanDay[] = [
     ...plan,
@@ -66,6 +95,7 @@ export function spillChains(plan: PlanDay[], quietDays: QuietDay[], legFor: LegL
     })),
   ].sort((a, b) => a.dayNumber - b.dayNumber);
   const numbers = new Set(all.map((d) => d.dayNumber));
+  const heldUntil = earliestFreeMinute(all);
   const landing = new Map<number, Placed[]>();
   for (const d of all) landing.set(d.dayNumber, []);
 
@@ -79,6 +109,7 @@ export function spillChains(plan: PlanDay[], quietDays: QuietDay[], legFor: LegL
         departureAt: s.checkoutAt === undefined ? undefined : s.checkoutAt - d.dayNumber * 1440,
       })),
       legs.map((l) => l?.duration),
+      { notBefore: heldUntil.get(d.dayNumber) ?? null },
     );
 
     let day = 0;
diff --git a/shared/src/roadtrip/roadtripModel.ts b/shared/src/roadtrip/roadtripModel.ts
index efcb9177a..184ac55bd 100644
--- a/shared/src/roadtrip/roadtripModel.ts
+++ b/shared/src/roadtrip/roadtripModel.ts
@@ -154,13 +154,25 @@ function resolveArrival(
   };
 }
 
-export function computeSchedule(stops: ScheduleStop[], legSeconds: (number | undefined)[]): Schedule {
+/**
+ * @param opts.notBefore Minute of this day before which the first stop cannot be
+ * reached, because a booking still holds the traveller somewhere else: the night
+ * before ran into this morning and its check-out is when the room is given back.
+ * Behaves like the arrival of an imaginary stop just before the first, so a stop
+ * pinned earlier keeps its clock and picks up the same late warning it would from
+ * any other leg it cannot make in time.
+ */
+export function computeSchedule(
+  stops: ScheduleStop[],
+  legSeconds: (number | undefined)[],
+  opts: { notBefore?: number | null } = {},
+): Schedule {
   const warnings: ScheduleWarning[] = [];
 
   const arrivals: (number | null)[] = new Array(stops.length).fill(null);
   const anchored: boolean[] = new Array(stops.length).fill(false);
 
-  let cursor: number | null = null;
+  let cursor: number | null = opts.notBefore ?? null;
   let dayOffset = 0;
 
   for (let i = 0; i < stops.length; i++) {