Moving expenses: Can I deduct the lodging near new home?

[maantal]

The hint about moving expenses suggest I can deduct "the lodging near your old home after your furniture was moved".
I have vice-versa situation. After our container departed, I and my family moved immediately to the new city but stayed in a hotel for about a week waiting the home to be ready and furniture to arrive. Can I deduct this hotel stay?
Thanks,
Anton

[MaryK1 · Accepted solution]

You can deduct one day as part of transportation expenses-  you can deduct the cost of transportation and lodging for yourself and members of your household while traveling from your former home to your new home. This includes expenses for the day you arrive.

The day of arrival is the day you secure lodging at the new place of residence, even if the lodging is on a temporary basis.  You can include any lodging expenses you had in the area of your former home within one day after you could no longer live in your former home because your furniture had been moved.

[jerry2000]

No, you can not. You can find the details of what you can and can not deduct as moving expenses in IRS Pub. 521, at this link:
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p521.pdf