In Reply to: Warning about hotels copying ur passport posted by Mandurahgal on Tuesday, 24. September 2013 at 08:52 Bali Time:
If you want to rent a motorbike in Phuket you have to hand over your original passport.They won't accept a photo copy.Give the bike back and you get your passport back.Now thats dodgy.All operators have the same requirement,no exceptions that I could find.