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Subject: Re: Providing your Passport Number to a Spanish hotel Posted on: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:18:25 +0000 (UTC)

playaz wrote:

> I have just booked a hotel on www.oh-barcelona.com - the email I have
> recieved from the site has stated I must provide my Passport number as
> all reservations require this due to Spanish law.
>
> Is this true? I just feel a bit wary of this, can anyone offer any
> advice

Dutch hotels generally do, and I believe by law they're meant to,
though the one I stay in most never bothered to ask for it, so in my
policy of reducing the risk of identity fraud by giving out personal
information only on a need to know basis I never gave it.

Similar thing applies to Austria, I think.

Neil