Practical ski-trip preparation

Travel documents, tourist taxes and hotel check-in

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Choose the country where you will sleep. Then check who receives your guest details, whether a local visitor tax is payable and what to prepare before arrival.

Which documents apply to your trip?

Your language or departure airport does not establish your citizenship. Check each traveller’s passport or national ID, residence status and all countries on the route, including transit.

Start with citizenship, residence and your full route

Check the official destination and transit entry guidance for each person. A country of departure or preferred language is not a passport category. Andorra and Serbia have their own entry rules; do not apply Schengen guidance to them automatically.

Border entry formalities and accommodation guest registration are different procedures. A ski booking voucher is not a travel document or permission to enter a country.

A short arrival checklist

  1. Before paying: ask whether the accommodation total includes the visitor tax, how any balance is collected and which exemptions apply to your group.
  2. Before arrival: use the accommodation’s verified booking channel for required check-in information. Check the recipient and privacy notice; ask why a document copy is requested rather than sending it by default.
  3. At the property: have valid identity documents available, check the guest details and keep the accommodation invoice or receipt for any local charge.
  4. Keep ski-rental, accommodation and transfer confirmations separate. Give guest-registration data to the accommodation, fitting measurements to the rental shop and journey details to the transfer operator only as required.

This guide does not ask you to upload a passport or submit a guest-registration form. Do not send identity documents to this website.