Will you be punished for staying in a hotel without an ID card?

Legal analysis: the hotel will be punished if you don't have an ID card to stay in the hotel. Once discovered, not only the hotel will be punished. People without ID cards will also be taken to the police station to investigate and verify their identity information. If you lose your ID card and need to stay in a hotel, you need to go to the nearest police station first and issue a temporary id card. If you go to work during the day, you'd better go directly to the household administration hall of the county public security bureau (sub-bureau) to handle temporary id card. You can collect it on the spot at a charge of 10 yuan, valid for 3 months.

Legal basis: Article 12 of the National Identity Card Law of People's Republic of China (PRC). When a citizen applies for a resident identity card, the public security organ shall handle it in a timely manner in accordance with the regulations. The public security organ shall issue resident identity cards within 60 days from the date when citizens submit the application registration form for 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. The relevant units and their staff members shall keep confidential the personal information of citizens recorded in the resident identity cards obtained in the course of performing their duties or providing services.