to be annoyed Premier Inn wants my passport details

[DorothyL]

and my "next destination" because I'm not a UK citizen.
My next destination is home ffs - another town in the UK. I'm a UK resident and taxpayer. Why do they insist on this, other hotels don't?

Don't know if it is relevant to the discussion but a credit card number will identify the country of your bank which MIGHT suffice as ID. I rarely have to give ID details in the UK but almost always when abroad. Sometimes they keep your passport until you check out.

I always get asked for my passport in hotels abroad. Have I missed an excuse to be outraged ?? 🤔

I'm not abroad. I'm in the country I live in.

This is fucking weird. I've booked hundreds of hotels all over the world (PA) and I can't remember ever having to supply passport details. Once, in UAE I think?

Never ever been asked for details for a UK based chain Hotel. Not always paying up front either, most bookings just secured on a credit card.

Ha! Just found this on trip advisor.
So

1. It's not a legal requirement at all
2. Eight years later they still haven't updated their policy.

While not wishing to be argumentative, how would a hotel know you are a UK resident and that you pay tax to the HMRC ?
Have you given your home address prior to the question about passport?

I stayed at a Premier Inn in London last week and they asked my nationality on check in. I assume if I had put anything but British they would have asked for my passport.

@ana18 are you pissed out of your head or something?

I gave home address when booking.

I use hotels all over the country week in week out for work, never get asked for a passport (including at Travelodge, although only stayed there one night as my company won't use them unless it's an emergency while they source other accommodation), but I never check in online, why would you need to? Premier inns even have the machine you check in with in reception, if you object just check in when you get there, you won't be asked for anything other than a signature and car reg on a bit of paper. Ultimately it's the same as PPs have said, if you are in a country in which you were not born/do not have naturalisation status for, you will be asked for extra ID in certain circumstances. This also applies to people born in the UK living elsewhere.

OP just show them your passport. I really don't see what your problem is - you are making a fuss about nothing. For a different reason but I can't even buy a bottle of wine from the Co-op withoushowing my passport - so I take my passport with me. Seriously - is it so much an inconvenience? And if it makes this country a safer place then what is your problem? I wouldn't think twice if a hotel in this country or overseas asked to see my passport - it is what they do.

This ^

I wouldn't have a problem with it if they asked everyone, no matter which nationality.

Like Travelodge do

Travelodge don’t ask to see passports.

Also I never check in online at Premier Inn. It doesn’t save any time.

wouldn't have a problem with it if they asked everyone, no matter which nationality.

like travelodge do

Well you solution is simple then. Go stay at travelodge.

It's a bit like, I don't like Lidl and the ridiculous queues so I shop in Tesco. Choice.

What they have posted on Trip Advisor is wrong. It is a legal requirement.

The Immigration (Hotel Records) Order 1972 requires hotels to collect the passport number and place of issue for all aliens as defined by the British Nationality Act 1981. Under that Act an alien is anyone who is not a Commonwealth citizen, a British protected person or a citizen of the Republic of Ireland. Simply being resident in the UK is not enough to exempt the hotel from this requirement. I'm afraid Premier Inn is required by law to collect your passport number.

I always expect to do this at check-in. I've definitely had to show my passport to hotels outside the UK.

What I didn't expect was the grilling I got the last time I flew out from Heathrow. They kept asking me how long my stay in the UK was and I kept telling them I live in the UK. Then they gave me a hard time about my right to visit my destination. Which was my home country, where I have citizenship.

Er, just say no?

Is prh47 still around because I found this blog that says its still the law unless you're from the Commonwealth or ROI.

visadreams.com/2016/12/04/no-passport-no-room/

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Stayed at many travelodges and never been asked for my passport.

All nonsense - hotels would put themselves out of,business for illicit encounters if genuine identity were required!!!

I booked and stayed last week and didn't get asked.

I suspect that this is all to do with the fact that the UK, unlike most European countries, does not do ID cards.

The practical result of not having ID cards is that everyone ends up having to submit a hodge-podge of other stuff (bills, driver's licenses, passports, blah blah). So you end up with just as much data being shared as with an ID card, but it involves far more inconvenience for everyone.

Bring on the ID cards, I say.