is there a way to require each guest in a single booking to register?

[Matthew181]

I've seen this done before, but I'm noticing a lot of people wanting to bring their friends or their husbands 3 buddies, or multi-family stays, and only one person books...

Recently had a guest one booked, came for one night, left, and left his friends for the remainder of the stay whom I had no idea who they were, and they were not ever registered...

Is there a way to require each guest in a stay to register on AirBnb so I can "keep tab" for lack of better words on each person coming through? 

Is that even possible?

[Gerry-And-Rashid0]

@Matthew181

No, there is no requirement from AirBnB to have each guest create a profile and register with AirBnB. Only the lead guest needs to be registered and be part of the group.

You can however ask for the names of all of the party when the booking is being made - but don't be lulled into a false sense of security just because you have someones name. However, it will make you feel more comfortable at least being able to address someone by their name.

[Branka-and-Silvia0]

@Matthew181

I wrote this many times before and I'll c/p it again...
From the first day of hosting I request from my guests to show me their photo ID on the arriwal. Even children.And I actually look their photo and their faces to see if they match. I have a form which I fill with all their informations (guest names, ID or passport numbers, citizenship, city of residence, coutry of residence, country of birth, date of birth, gender ). They all have to be registrated by low in my country but I would do it even if I would not be obligated. 

After a year of hosting I still can not believe how most hosts let total strangers in their homes and how they rely on ABB ID-verification or even worse facebook account and mobile phone numbers like this means something!? I am sure police can not believe it either....

Remember - ABB will not give you your guest's identity (even if they know it) in case he rob you or trash your place or whatever. Often, ABB doesn't even know your guest identity (if he has not verfied his ID or made a booking with stolen ID and credit card)

[Matthew181]

Thank you - that's pretty hard core, I like it....

So you turn people away at the door if they don't want to show you their ID?   Or you do all this before they show up?

I don't plan to be AT my residence full time (we travel a lot for work), so I wouldn't always be here to see them in.

We just took our first renters over the weekend, and it was very nerve racking for me because it's MY place, still, and to watch someone and their kids come in the door with their friends and watching the kids go straight to MY master bedroom and start jumping on my bed, I wanted to throw them out on the spot, but was like...    "no...   no...   it's just one person, we're good, just make it through the weekend, and figure it out on the backside...."

Anyway, thanks for your input, it's greatly appreciated.

Matt

[Branka-and-Silvia0]

@Matthew181

Guests are obligated to show their ID or passports to hosts in Croatia, the same as in any hotel. We have to take all theirs personal informations and register them online (few years ago we had to go to the police office to do it). Noone ever complained to me but one of my friends, also host in Zagreb had a group of guests who didn't want to show her their passports so she said: "Ok, then we all have to go to police station." And they went and there police took all their informations from passports so they felt very stupid afterwards 🙂

But, yes.. hosts in Croatia (and Italy and some other european countries) are not allowed to host anyone without that procedure because we would break the low... and it is written in my house rules.

I always do that at check in but some hosts ask photocopy or photo of passport to be sent in email upfront in case guests will self check in. 

[Branka-and-Silvia0]

ps

I found somewhere in Airbnb TOS that any host can ask his guest an photo ID and take fotocopy but it has to be shreaded max 1 year after that.