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I very much doubt if every hotel I've stayed in outside the US has asked for my passport but certainly many/most have. Never really paid much mind. As a US res
by ghaff 1y ago
I very much doubt if every hotel I've stayed in outside the US has asked for my passport but certainly many/most have. Never really paid much mind.
As a US resident, I have often been asked for a drivers license in the US and it was actually an issue at one point when I had lost it though I was able to work around with some difficulty. I suspect the details were some combination of local/state/and hotel policy.
- stackskipton 1y agoMost hotels I’ve stayed at ask for ID. If you are foreign, they want a passport only. I have had issues with US hotels accept US passports and fought with one over it.
- ghaff 1y agoI expect that quite a few hotel clerks in the US are just not familiar with anything other than a driver's license as government ID (or think a driver's license is the only acceptable ID). I'm pretty sure that I would have an issue with a global entry card at some point if I were to routinely use it outside of TSA (as I do after my driver's license issue) even though it's perfectly valid US government ID. Generally speaking, hotels in the US do seem to want government ID. Don't really know the requirement in general. This was a fairly low-rent chain that I was only using because last minute. I expect if it had been one of my major loyalty chains, a manager would have fixed things pretty quickly. ADDED: Normally I travel with a passport as well but, as I say, this was a last moment short trip so I didn't throw in all my travel pouches.
- heavyset_go 1y agoHotels/motels want your ID so they can come after you if you trash the room.
- ghaff 1y agoThe bizarro thing in this case was that I convinced them to just let me pay in cash. Which of course gave them no ability to chase after me if I trashed the room.