I don't know what the official position on this is, but I used to work
in a UK hotel and we always took the passport details of non-UK guests.
We didn't keep the passport, just asked to see it and wrote down the
number and expiry date. My understanding was that we did this in case
for any reason the police or any other authority needed to track down a
guest, or if something happened to the guest in question then the police
could identify the person more easily, although neither situation
actually happened to my knowledge - and it was never a problem if we
forgot to get the details, so it clearly wasn't obligatory to get this
info. We never passed it on to anyone when we took it. We certainly
didn't take the details in case of non-payment, because we took separate
credit card authorisations for that.
Sharon
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Subject: Re: [data-protection] Privacy question (located on my blog)
A good question...
I was not aware that hotels did this in the UK, but I wouldn't be given
I'm English.
However at a recent trip to Venice the hotel asked for passports and
said they would be kept until we check out. I
mentioned that I wasn't happy about this (I could see other people's
passports simply kept in the pigeon holes
behind the desk). The guy checking us in said it was no problem, and
just wrote down the passport from number from
my passport (security in case of non-payment so I could be traced), but
not my wife's. All was well.
Other trips inside the past few years to Europe have entailed the
passport number being given on check-in, a visual
sighting by the desk clerk and then the passport returned. That includes
another trip to Venice to a different
hotel.
I would tell your US friend to request it back after it has been
checked. I personally never let my passport,
driving licence, cheque books or bank cards out of my sight when I use
them, and am not aware of any law requiring
it to be kept (although there may be....)
Simon Howarth.
Quoting Tim Trent <[log in to unmask]>:
> I have a privacy question (or she thinks it is) regarding hotels and
> their keeping of passports in the UK for an entire stay on my blog at
> http://tinyurl.com/6edak3
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> My US friend would love to know the answer. I'm turning to the list
for
> answers because I have none. Hope you don't mind adding your wisdom
> there (as a comment) as well as here, because she reads the blog but
not
> the list.
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