Originally Posted by
akhillese
In my experience, the official answer has been that the cert holder 'should' be present. However, the hotel allows you to add additional guests under the reservation which makes it possible to check in without the cert holder being present. This has generally not been an issue as at the end of the day, the hotel is getting paid for the room and a listed guest under the reservation has checked in.
davidsc111 - since the reservation would be under your name only, I don't believe your daughter would run into any issues as there only needs to be contact with the front desk at check in. If they ask any questions, she could simply say you are arriving later.
Have you done this at Hong Kong hotels?
My recollection is, they want the IDs for All Guests on the reservation at check in. We have stays at JWM, SkyCity, Ren and CY Sha Tin.
They all wanted to take copy of the ID of each guest whose name on the reservation - the ID can be the passport or the HKID. In fact even with the stays were in one name but we check in as a couple, they still want the IDs for both of us - the ID of the guest the reservation is booked under, and the ID of the guest who would be staying as well but the name not on the reservation, i.e. spouse.
In US and Canada, the ID check isn't that restrictive though some properties mentioned that when the guest whose name the reservation was made under, to just drop in to show ID proof but they often forgot about it later.
International properties are far more vigilant about ID Proof, part of it due to local regulation, part of it to prevent fraud, esp when selling award rooms is rampant in mainland China.