Originally Posted by
KiwiRob
And what ID can you offer them, you don't need a passport to travel within schengen, that's the only ID my kids have, if we travel from Norway to Sweden, Denmark or points south we never take passports, they simply aren't necessary.
More to the point I've never been asked to prove the age of my children at any hotel we have ever stayed in.
Most non-EU persons are required to have passports when traveling between Schengen countries, whether or not checked when crossing borders within the Schengen zone.
Remember what happened just after the terrorist ABB attacked in and outside of Oslo in Norway? It doesn't even need to be that extreme for checks to occur or ID to be required.
Most of my stays in Europe don't involve passport checks. That goes for Club Carlson stays too.
Whether as an EU resident or as a US citizen, Italian hotels always demand, at least once, my US passport when checking in.