Originally Posted by bdschobel
Once in a while, a hotel demands to see my ID at checkin. I always refuse. Some of them bluff and pretend that they won't check me in, but I call their bluff. It always leads to a nice long conversation with the manager on duty about the various purposes served, if any, by the ID check. And I always get checked in eventually, after having spread around some badly needed education!
The most recent such incident was at Marriott Crystal Gateway on February 25.
Bruce
The Marriott Crystal City Gateway and the Hilton Crystal City are the two properties in the DC-area where I routinely hear about ID demands from hotel employees. At the latter they even took photo copies of ID, and it's not clear what the hotel did with such photocopies.
