The phrase "reception counter" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a desk or area in a business, hotel, or other facility where guests, customers, or visitors are received, typically staffed by someone who provides information or assistance. For example: "We had to wait in line at the reception counter for several minutes before checking in to our hotel room."
A dish of meclizine sits on the reception counter like mints.
For a stronger drink, the lobby reception counter doubles as a bar, with an adjacent seating area and outdoor patio.
After that, they went inside the Hall of Justice, through the snaking metal-detector line, and then packed themselves into elevators that hissed up to the District Attorney's reception counter on the third floor.
At a third, a hefty woman who looked as if she had been glued to her seat behind the reception counter for years admitted that she had rooms, but insisted that without prior arrangement she could not rent them.
Only these cumulative centralized counts, which included no record of precinct-by-precinct totals, were coming out of the whining, clacking printers; then they were ripped loose and fed to the local reporters and to the citizens who had gathered on the other side of the chest-high reception counter.
Adam Peaty's lifeguard, Deborah Hood-leansett, leans over the reception counter of his local swimming pool and proudly shows off her iPhone: her background is a beaming selfie with the Olympic champion taken just a week before he flew to Rio. "I said: 'I better get a photo now because you won't want to know me when you've got a gold medal'," she says.
Euro disco beats pummel your senses; handsome young men usher you to reception counters decorated with silver sculptures of words like "whatever".
East German children hang around the reception counters, offering rooms for 50 marks a night to Westies for whom there is no room.
Defined as facilities of intermediate complexity, between primary care and the hospital system, the UPAs are meant to establish an organized network of emergency care, with mutual agreements and flows to ensure patient reception, allowing for counter-referrals to the service network, when applicable.
When I see the five stern-looking men standing by the counter at reception, I realize that I should have stayed in my room.
If you are travelling independently, make the complaint directly to the hotel reception or the flight counter etc. and again, when it is fresh in everyone's mind and immediate in its consequences, you may have the matter resolved quickly.
