Rip off Britain Holidays featuring Turkey

[nichola]

It's quite normal in Turkey for hotels to take passports. Usually it is so they can take a copy and take a note of the details because they get regularly checked by the authorities.

Usually they are returned once this information is recorded or you can ask for them back.

I imagine that they do this so you can go to your room rather than keep you waiting while they do this.

Unforgivable that any hotel would "lose" passports though.

Turkish people almost always have to hand over their identity card and it seems common practice to hold onto these and I am sure I in many cases it to ensure they get paid for the room.

[Fran]

Turns out they weren't lost but given to different guests who took them home with them.

[Rimms]

It says a lot about passport control who presumably allowed two people to use the wrong passports?

[Jacqui Harvey]

Sorry it was T.Cook not Thomson's.   Disgraceful behaviour from T.C. and the Hotel, which was the Marcan in Oludeniz, strange because this place always gets good write ups on T.A.

[littlereddevil]

I always wait for them to copy the details and take my passport back wherever I go

[Liz 101]

Is it just me? How the blue blazes did the other couple manage to get through not one but four points where the passports would have been checked? 1) At Dalaman check in the names on the passports wouldn't have matched the passenger list 2) Passport control at Dalaman 3) Boarding the aircraft, presuming the boarding card names were as the passenger list 4) At passport control in the UK.

Finally, not sure how this story constitutes a "rip off"