We arrived after midday and were asked to deposit our passports with reception. I never like the idea of doing that and in Croatia it is a legal requirement that you carry adequate means of identification - which for a tourist world normally mean a psssport - with you at all times.
I offered to pay the fee up front, in case this was simply a means of insuring payment. Apparentrly the staff couldn't take money after midday. They could take my passport, seemingly in contravention of their own law, but not payment. They lied to us in saying it was a legal requirement they retain passports.
I moved on a mile or so up the road where another site recorded my details; they told me they never retained passports.
Nowhere else in Europe on a 3-week trip suggested such a thing.
No other hotel or campsite