Do hotels in Nha Trang keep your passport as deposit at check-in?

From messages by 3 participants in 1 source · Last activity: 113 days ago

TL;DR

It depends on the hotel: in June 2026 travelers reported that some Nha Trang hotels keep your passport during the stay, while others hand it back if you ask. At Regalia a guest got her passport back right away and no deposit was requested, while another hotel kept a guest's passport even though she had local registration. Sometimes a passport is left instead of a cash deposit.

What the community said

A similar experience was described in late June 2026: the hotel also kept the passports, but when the guests needed them for a two-day excursion with a night in another hotel, reception made copies and returned the originals, which the guests then kept.

113 days ago

In June 2026 a guest at the Regalia hotel said staff asked for her passport at check-in. She replied that she could not leave it because she needed it herself. Staff agreed, returned the passport and did not ask for a deposit either.

121 days ago Regalia hotel, Nha Trang

At another hotel in June 2026 staff kept the passport even of a guest who explained that she lives in Nha Trang and has local registration. She did not mind, but the case shows that registration does not guarantee you will keep your passport.

121 days ago

A passport is sometimes left instead of a cash deposit. In June 2026, the day before his flight, a traveler took back his 100 USD deposit at reception because he had run out of cash and left his passport instead, expecting to get it back before departure.

121 days ago Passport instead of a 100 USD deposit