"Is it part of whatever went on at the registration desk?"

How many steps from the front of the hotel to the registration desk?

Like the two men who had entered, they went to the registration desk to sign.

He began counting the number of people between him and the registration desk.

Adam got out of the car and followed the man to a registration desk.

At the registration desk in the room across the hall, he stopped.

"Wait," she said when he started to go toward the registration desk.

They need to set up their registration desk an hour earlier.

Then he went back down to the registration desk in the lobby.

As he walked across to the registration desk a man came out of the manager's office and turned toward him.