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Do I need to carry my passport with me in Germany?

Old May 7, 2018, 7:30 pm
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Originally Posted by WorldLux
Care to explain? Germany isn't exactly Fallujah. Carrying a passport in your pocket is perfectly fine.



Interesting that you say that. The website of US embassy and consulates in Germany states that
Exactly. With Germany not being Fallujah, I am not particularly concerned with my hotel safe being targeted. I realize crime can happen anywhere, but I think with a person having their passport on them everywhere it is easier to lose it themselves than to have the hotel safe be compromised.
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Old May 7, 2018, 7:34 pm
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Originally Posted by LondonElite
Eh...why?
See my quote ahove to the other poster. I guess re-reading my post's wording, I see how you guys are confused.
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Old May 7, 2018, 7:38 pm
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Originally Posted by Ber2dca
I think losing it or misplacing it out of carelessness is likely a bigger risk than it being stolen either way.
This. Plus, a passport if you are walking around without a bag or purse is bigger in the pocket anyways, so not as easy to conceal as a wallet. I realize no one wants to think of themselves as the klutz that loses things, but let's be honest, it happens sometimes and it would really be a buzzkill on a trip.
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Old May 7, 2018, 9:03 pm
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Originally Posted by RolfD
excellent post! they forgot they are in a foreign country with different rules!
Yawn. Not all Americans live in Nebraska and think France is the capitol of Paris.

I'll take my chances with my Drivers License in my wallet basically anywhere in the world, and maybe a photocopy of my passport as another posted suggested. And if I have a run in with the police then I'll be more than happy to tell them I can produce my passport at my hotel/apartment. Some of you people are acting like we are saying we'd rock up to an embassy without our passport -- no, we're talking about day to day life, it's usually quite alright.
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Old May 8, 2018, 4:05 am
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Originally Posted by jiaogulan
Yawn. Not all Americans live in Nebraska and think France is the capitol of Paris.

I'll take my chances with my Drivers License in my wallet basically anywhere in the world, and maybe a photocopy of my passport as another posted suggested. And if I have a run in with the police then I'll be more than happy to tell them I can produce my passport at my hotel/apartment. Some of you people are acting like we are saying we'd rock up to an embassy without our passport -- no, we're talking about day to day life, it's usually quite alright.
when I travelled to a foreign country I made a copy of my the first page of my passport and a copy of page visa/stamp and carry with me at all times.
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Old May 8, 2018, 6:07 am
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People can do what they want with their passport when in foreign countries but I've needed mine often enough to always carry it with me. Whether you do or not should be based on your own situation and where you are. Your passport should probably stay in your room safe if you are the type to get liquored up in an Eastern European sex club, are a scatter brain who is constantly losing things or lack the situational awareness to know when pickpockets are operating and don't know how to securely carry your passport.
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Old May 8, 2018, 6:44 am
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You don't necessarily need your passport with you. But maybe carry a copy of it with you together with another ID.
Hope this helps!
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Old May 8, 2018, 9:19 am
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Originally Posted by Badenoch
People can do what they want with their passport when in foreign countries but I've needed mine often enough to always carry it with me..
I'm intrigued. The only foreign country I've been to in the past ten years that has required to see my passport is the USA - and regularly. They freak if you show them a Driving Licence (although it's in English) and they are forever asking for ID. But elsewhere I don't recall being asked for ID at all, other than checking in at hotels - and I'm not talking just EU but would include Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, Hong Kong, Thailand, Myanmar, Canada and probably some others I've forgotten about.
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Old May 8, 2018, 10:10 am
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Originally Posted by lhrsfo
I'm intrigued. The only foreign country I've been to in the past ten years that has required to see my passport is the USA - and regularly. They freak if you show them a Driving Licence (although it's in English) and they are forever asking for ID. But elsewhere I don't recall being asked for ID at all, other than checking in at hotels - and I'm not talking just EU but would include Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, Hong Kong, Thailand, Myanmar, Canada and probably some others I've forgotten about.
I'm in the U.S. most often and it's the one place I don't carry my passport although I have a NEXUS card.

In Post 7 I mentioned some of the situations were I've needed it.

Originally Posted by Badenoch
It's come in handy for a variety of everyday events such as going to a casino, roadside checkpoints, changing money, using a credit card and was very handy to have on a couple of more exciting occasions.
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Old May 10, 2018, 8:07 am
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Originally Posted by lhrsfo
I'm intrigued. The only foreign country I've been to in the past ten years that has required to see my passport is the USA - and regularly. They freak if you show them a Driving Licence (although it's in English) and they are forever asking for ID. But elsewhere I don't recall being asked for ID at all, other than checking in at hotels - and I'm not talking just EU but would include Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, Hong Kong, Thailand, Myanmar, Canada and probably some others I've forgotten about.
Based on my humble experience deriving from travelling forwards and back for the last 30 years, there is a big difference how a US American expects to be treated oversees and compared to how foreigners are treated in the US. Coming from Nebraska or not, there appears to be the expectation that everything overseas works like in the US whereas in the US everybody expects your conduct as a foreigner has to be that of a US American
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Old May 10, 2018, 3:00 pm
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Originally Posted by Flying Lawyer
Based on my humble experience deriving from travelling forwards and back for the last 30 years, there is a big difference how a US American expects to be treated oversees and compared to how foreigners are treated in the US. Coming from Nebraska or not, there appears to be the expectation that everything overseas works like in the US whereas in the US everybody expects your conduct as a foreigner has to be that of a US American
Excellent comment!
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Old May 12, 2018, 7:39 pm
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Originally Posted by Flying Lawyer
Based on my humble experience deriving from travelling forwards and back for the last 30 years, there is a big difference how a US American expects to be treated oversees and compared to how foreigners are treated in the US. Coming from Nebraska or not, there appears to be the expectation that everything overseas works like in the US whereas in the US everybody expects your conduct as a foreigner has to be that of a US American
As someone who has lived in a number of countries - including the U.S. and Germany - I would say that while Americans are very America-focused, I've also come across a good number of Europeans who when coming to America expected American things to be like things back home in Spain, France or Germany and acted rather dismissively in a quite arrogant fashion about aspects of American life that are uniquely American. Especially among Germans there's a certain breed who find it barely tolerable if something is allowed in America that is 'verboten' in Germany and who will feel the need to lecture at length about why the German state of affairs is far more sensible.
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Old May 14, 2018, 5:54 am
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Originally Posted by Ber2dca
As someone who has lived in a number of countries - including the U.S. and Germany - I would say that while Americans are very America-focused, I've also come across a good number of Europeans who when coming to America expected American things to be like things back home in Spain, France or Germany and acted rather dismissively in a quite arrogant fashion about aspects of American life that are uniquely American. Especially among Germans there's a certain breed who find it barely tolerable if something is allowed in America that is 'verboten' in Germany and who will feel the need to lecture at length about why the German state of affairs is far more sensible.
Might well be. I came, having lived in some of the most relaxed states of the US, rarely come across something that is allowed in the US but "verboten" in Germany. Most of the time it appears to be the other way round (certainly with the exception of food safety, enhanced interrogation techniques and other US specialties). Not without any reason close to 1,00 percent of the US population has an address at a local jail, state or federal prison, privately operated prison facility, military facility, jail in Indian Country or US Immigration detention centre whereas the same number in Germany is about 0,08 percent. Apparently much more is verboten or much less such Verbote are observed in the US. But this is totally off-topic now
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Old May 15, 2018, 7:47 pm
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Originally Posted by lhrsfo
I'm intrigued. The only foreign country I've been to in the past ten years that has required to see my passport is the USA - and regularly. They freak if you show them a Driving Licence (although it's in English) and they are forever asking for ID. But elsewhere I don't recall being asked for ID at all, other than checking in at hotels - and I'm not talking just EU but would include Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, Hong Kong, Thailand, Myanmar, Canada and probably some others I've forgotten about.
I've been required to show my passport in China, Mongolia and most recently in Budapest.
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Old May 18, 2018, 9:14 am
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I currently live in Germany and for the previous 25 years have spent about three days a week there. I have never once in all that time been randomly asked for my identification.
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