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Jun 24, 2010 | 9:27 pm

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Originally Posted by abhilife2001

I have been staying and travelling around CEE for the good part of the past 4 years and never had the hotels asked to keep it.. sometimes they have asked to make photocopies for their records and for registration with the police, but never asked for the orignals to be kept.. And mind u, I have an Indian passport and not an American one..
Even for police registrations ( required in many eastern european countries) a xerox is usually taken.. never the original..

Well, it has been some time, but in 2002, when I was staying in Las Palmas for a meeting, the hotel kept the passport of every member of our group (French, British, Finnish, Austrian, Belgian, German and Greek citizens) for the first night because, at the time, they needed to show them to the local police authorities. Never happened since, but Spain is the country in Europe where I need the most to show my ID at hotels, and the ID number is sometimes printed on the invoice, as it happened again just two weeks ago.

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