Unusual hotel check in

[brianthainess]

Would you let a complete stranger stay at your hotel without having any ID ? Jeez man wake up.

[bignok]

15 minutes ago, Lemsta69 said:

 

You're betraying your ignorance again bigstooge. I've checked in to many hotels and watched them take a copy of the visa page as well as the photo so they can enter all that info into the online TM30 system.

 

Bully for you that you've never encountered it but your experience is not universal and you just sound silly with your dogmatic assertions to the contrary.

Give it a rest. Learn some manners.

Edited November 12, 2023 by bignok

[bignok]

1 minute ago, brianthainess said:

Would you let a complete stranger stay at your hotel without having any ID ? Jeez man wake up.

He thinks they should photocopy. But you can print from phone.

[bignok]

20 minutes ago, Lemsta69 said:

You're betraying your ignorance

I think you mean "displaying"

 

Betraying would mean the opposite.

 

Rather ironic.

 

 

[NoshowJones]

1 hour ago, mfd101 said:

If you have a Thai d/l, you could always use that.

The Nana Hotel in Bangkok will not accept driving license, must have passport, there is a cheap hotel in Petchabun right next to 7/11 at the back of BigC and 350Bt per night that will not accept a DL, again must have passport, this is a very clean and comfortable hotel.

[bignok]

1 minute ago, NoshowJones said:

The Nana Hotel in Bangkok will not accept driving license, must have passport, there is a cheap hotel in Petchabun right next to 7/11 at the back of BigC and 350Bt per night that will not accept a DL, again must have passport, this is a very clean and comfortable hotel.

Most hotels accept photocopy of passport. 

[chuang]

Do they still have 260 baht hotel...yet people are complaining about high prices in Thailand..

This price is about 3 to 4 decades ago...

[NoshowJones]

36 minutes ago, bignok said:

Most hotels accept photocopy of passport. 

That's true, but I still think that the Nana Hotel wouldn't, though I stand to be corrected.

[StayinThailand2much]

13 hours ago, Mika78 said:

What's the purpose of taking a photo of my personal data only? Thank you.

 

Experienced that do. Easy to use the data later. For the TM.30, perhaps?

[Mika78]

1 hour ago, Mike Lister said:

We've stayed at a couple of hotels where reception used their phone to take pictures of our ID and passport. My suspicion is that doing so satisfies the law but can always be erased afterwards so the income doesn't have to be declared for tax.

This is a good answer. Thank you Mike.

[Mika78]

1 hour ago, chuang said:

Do they still have 260 baht hotel...yet people are complaining about high prices in Thailand..

This price is about 3 to 4 decades ago...

Muak Lek has also a 180 thb hotels but i know about it only after i already paid for the 260 thb one. 

[Mika78]

28 minutes ago, StayinThailand2much said:

 

Experienced that do. Easy to use the data later. For the TM.30, perhaps?

Use the data later for? I only was there few hours.

[Mika78]

1 hour ago, brianthainess said:

Would you let a complete stranger stay at your hotel without having any ID ? Jeez man wake up.

If you are asking me i never wrote that.

[Mika78]

1 hour ago, Bangkok Barry said:

 

Did you ask her? If not, why not?

You are right. Should ask instead open a complete unless new topic on TV. Sorry.

[ChipButty]

4 minutes ago, Mika78 said:

You are right. Should ask instead open a complete unless new topic on TV. Sorry.

You need some new hobbies, 

[Mika78]

Just now, ChipButty said:

You need some new hobbies, 

Create useless topic on TV is one of them

[ChaiyaTH]

What is the actual question? Obviously they take a copy of your passport / id when checking in. Only the arrogant paranoid android receptionists check the visa. How would you even know if they reported you for TM30 or not, this can be done with just the passport data.

[ChaiyaTH]

3 hours ago, Mika78 said:

You are right. But here my question was about that i never saw someone take my infos using a photo with the phone. I suppose that if I had given her my TDL, she still would have used a cell phone photo

You live under a rock? They do that all the time.

[StayinThailand2much]

6 hours ago, Mika78 said:

Use the data later for? I only was there few hours.

 

1. They, obviously, want to know who's staying at their property. (You could damage something, which they would want to charge someone for after you leave.)

 

2. They are obligated to register and report your details, e.g. via a TM.30 report to Immigration. 

 

3. To enter into their data system later.

 

Oftentimes, esp. at smaller properties they don't have a copying machine, so staff just take a photo of your passport for aforementioned purposes.

 

 

Edited November 12, 2023 by StayinThailand2much

[scorecard]

On 11/11/2023 at 10:47 PM, Mika78 said:

1) She has no pc or laptop

2) As I wrote, unusual check in as it's first time someone no look at the visa and or TM30 and I always get a copy with a printer, never by phone photo.

So do you really expect that every hotel in LOS 9 1,2,3,4,and 5 stars have full knowledge of and correctly apply these items?

[Liverpool Lou]

On 11/12/2023 at 6:00 AM, bigt3116 said:

260 baht? That is a short time resort, not a hotel

So what?

[Liverpool Lou]

On 11/12/2023 at 10:06 AM, brianthainess said:

In case you wreck the room, damage anything, steal anything, or leave nasty stains anywhere 😱 

Hotel room prices have a built-in accommodation for nasty bed stains.

[brianthainess]

8 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Hotel room prices have a built-in accommodation for nasty bed stains.

Hotel rooms have a list normally on the inside of the door which I have seen pointing out how much to replace a sheet, heavy staining was included.

I had a friend who stayed in a hotel and this guy was OCD in his cleanliness as boaty, he even made the bed on leaving a hotel, when checking out they wanted to deduct for a badly stained sheet, so he asked for the dirty sheet, they produced one, so when he got outside threw it in a bin. 👍🏻

[AAArdvark]

On 11/12/2023 at 10:10 AM, brianthainess said:

And a life time ban 

I always try to give ONLY my driver's license, and most of the time it works. 

[rwill]

In non tourist areas I am rarely asked for my passport.  My wife just uses her Thai ID.

[brianthainess]

42 minutes ago, rwill said:

In non tourist areas I am rarely asked for my passport.  My wife just uses her Thai ID.

I am Never asked for my PP if with my wife.

[TheFishman1]

I just came back from staying two nights at a really nice resort in the mountains when I checked in, they didn’t ask me for anything. TIT

[sandyf]

On 11/11/2023 at 10:49 PM, bignok said:

You can hand a photocopy of passport to hotel. They never check visas. Not their job.

Can only assume you haven't been here very long.

[bignok]

3 minutes ago, sandyf said:

Can only assume you haven't been here very long.

20 years

[bignok]

1 hour ago, TheFishman1 said:

I just came back from staying two nights at a really nice resort in the mountains when I checked in, they didn’t ask me for anything. TIT

Yeah some remote places do that. Ive had that.