Whether your travel skills are rusty after The Cough That Stopped The Globe or whether you are new to the game entirely, there are a lot of mistakes you want to avoid making when checking into foreign abodes.
One of them is not being conned into handing your passport over to anyone that could later hold it over you.
From the Netflix hit The Serpent (which, based on a true story, shows an international gem smuggler hold backpackers hostage with this exact trick, and has been described as “murder porn in prestige packaging“) to Airbnb’s frequently asked questions page,