Mrs Lost Kids Passports

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randomshenans

randomshenans

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And we're due to fly at 8pm. Ha. I'll be on the phone to BA and the embassy as soon as they open to see if I can get some emergency travel docs.

What a bloody nightmare.

Anyone else ever done it?
 
I'm hoping to get just emergency travel docs for them at 90quid a piece (oof). I will try everything I can!
We're just back in the UK for my nan's 80th, who has dimentia and just been put in a home so the last thing we want to do is miss it. Poor old dear isn't getting any better! I'll be using that one for sure.

I don't think the house has been pulled apart as much as it was. Luckily, it wasn't me who had them last, so at least I escaped the blame :p
 
Unless something has changed in the last few years I'm afraid you wont be going. I do hope I'm wrong though and wish you all the best.

edit: I presumed you were a brit going away, apologies. You may be ok if here is not your country of residence.
 
I'm a UK national, living in France. We all hold UK passports. Annoyingly there is that agreement between EU states (including Switzerland) but not including the UK for freedom to travel without showing a passport. I suppose that's the last thing the UK needs though ha
 
Saying that, it assumes you can make an appointment at your Emabassy, which won't be possible...

https://www.gov.uk/emergency-travel-document

See what the people say on the phone. Naturally I have to wait hours for them to open.

If I can't get them I'll travel on my own. Annoying even more as we're all traveling business back, which would be a proper down the drain. Gah.
 
Me and 5 mates drove to Amsterdam this year and one forgot to bring his passport, no issues getting on the Eurotunnel and on the way back we just had to show his driving license and wait 20 minutes whilst they did some checks.

Flying is a different matter I believe though.
 
I found out my passport ran out a few hours before I was due to fly to Geneva. Nightmare. You can't travel on anything else so I had to arrange for the soonest passport office appointment which was Durham (I live in Bristol) for the next day. Left Bristol at like 4am to get it done and had to change my outbound and inbound flights from Bristol to Nottingham, including car parking, at a cost of about £300. I almost missed my new flight because I fell asleep having been up for so long and got awoken by the last call :p.

I probably would have just not gone but it was skiing so would have lost way more on ski passes etc.
 
Peerzy said:
Me and 5 mates drove to Amsterdam this year and one forgot to bring his passport, no issues getting on the Eurotunnel and on the way back we just had to show his driving license and wait 20 minutes whilst they did some checks.

Flying is a different matter I believe though.
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Same,

I lost my passport just before heading out for a ski season, the woman at Dover was more interested in the ski resort I was working in than my long list of pre-prepared excuses :p
 
Because I haven't turned the house upside down already...

Apparently it would be possible if; I went to Paris today (4hr drive there), with the kids and wife, a court order saying she has custody, proof of residence, police report on lost passports, new photos, 120EUR each and our IDs/passports. Most of which not possible to even do in the time we have.

Looks like I'm flying alone then. Way to ruin a weekend. Ugggh
 
Will Gill said:
Same,

I lost my passport just before heading out for a ski season, the woman at Dover was more interested in the ski resort I was working in than my long list of pre-prepared excuses :p
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Annoyingly when I drove the audi down from the UK I wasn't checked at any point for a passport.

WHY YOU NO LET ME FLY!?
 
leave them at home?


just make sure you leave them a goodly supply of black and white films and tell them to be prepared for hapless burglars
 
Seeing as you are British nationals can't you turn up at the airport and say you lost their passports. After some checking they should let you back into the country.

Admittedly this plan does have the disadvantage that they may think you kidnapped some children and you'll be stuck in the UK until you can arrange new passports.
 
Am I the only one that check all the important documents I need to prior to BOOKING international traveling then storing them in a safe place until the day of travel?
 
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