Can I stay in a hotel if I forget my ID card?

You can stay in a hotel if you forget your ID card.

There are several ways to forget to bring your ID card when staying in a hotel:

1. You can apply for temporary id card without an ID card;

2. For those who need to board a plane, take a train or stay in a hotel urgently because of the loss, theft, forgetfulness and other reasons, the airport, the railway station police station and the police station in the area where the hotel is located will issue temporary identification in time by querying the national population information system for the next flight, train and stay in the hotel.

The main functions of the ID card:

1, voter registration;

2. Household registration;

3. military service registration;

4. Marriage registration;

5. Admission and employment;

6. Handling notarization business;

7. Go to the border management area;

8. Go through the exit application procedures;

9. Participate in litigation activities;

10, apply for motor vehicle and boat driver's license, not motor vehicle license;

1 1, apply for individual business license;

12, handling personal credit investigation affairs;

13, participating in social insurance and receiving social relief;

14, go through the formalities of taking a civil aviation plane;

15, check into the hotel;

16. Withdraw remittance and mail;

17, consignment items;

18, handle other affairs.

To sum up, you can't stay in the hotel without an ID card, but you can stay in the hotel with other valid documents, such as temporary id card, police officer's card, passport, driver's license, social security card, residence permit, military officer's card and soldier's card, or check your identity and register with the police station in the jurisdiction where the hotel is located.

Legal basis:

Article 12 of the People's Republic of China (PRC) Identity Card Law

The public security organ shall, in accordance with the provisions, apply for the collection, renewal and replacement of resident identity cards. The public security organ shall issue resident identity cards within 60 days from the date when citizens submit the registration form of resident identity cards; In areas with inconvenient transportation, the processing time may be appropriately extended, but the extension time shall not exceed thirty days.

Citizens who urgently need to use their resident identity cards during the application, renewal and replacement of their resident identity cards may apply for temporary resident identity cards, and the public security organs shall handle them in a timely manner in accordance with regulations. The specific measures shall be formulated by the public security department of the State Council.