Dilemma!

Lunar_Eclipse

But if you're travelling within Europe, I think there are other forms of acceptable ID than passports ...

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Lunar_Eclipse wrote: »

But if you're travelling within Europe, I think there are other forms of acceptable ID than passports ...

The UK isn't a Schengen member, so it's stricter (ie: passport or national ID card only). I would still check with the airline just in case, but it's doubtful (now I've remembered about Schengen).

zaksmum

On another thread, you mentioned you'd changed doctors as you'd recently moved house. Could you have needed to show your passport to the new doctor as proof of ID? Or left it behind at the old house? Showed it to the solicitor or bank/building society?

If you can think back to when you last used the passport that may just help you remember where you put it.

mountainofdebt

I wouldn't go either .....but woe betide him if found it later that day!

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zaksmum wrote: »

On another thread, you mentioned you'd changed doctors as you'd recently moved house. Could you have needed to show your passport to the new doctor as proof of ID? Or left it behind at the old house? Showed it to the solicitor or bank/building society?

If you can think back to when you last used the passport that may just help you remember where you put it.

Wow...now if that turns out to be the case, it will be the best case of MSE forums detective work ever! Fingers crossed.

londoner01

Yes, it's because of Schengen. How the UK can think it's clever to be both out of Schengen and have no alternative forms of valid ID is beyond me.
Anyway.

Thanks for all suggestions.
We will definitely walk up to the check-in desk and try to cry our best cry to the person at check-in, but at the moment we think finding the passport is more likely than travelling on just the card, and we're giving finding the passport just 10%.

We're going to a Schengen country which accepts my national ID card (I'm an EU citizen), but expects a passport from my OH because there's no other form of ID.

We're definitely looking everywhere in the house, but we have moved since the last time he used the passport (about two months ago). We've tried the whole retracing the steps but not with great success, so we just thought it's best to look EVERYWHERE - it's faster. We've done one room so far, missing another one and a couple of suitcases we've put in the loft.
The problem is that neither of us remembers seeing the passport in the new place!

To respond to some other people's comments: I am an independent-travel type person, but I haven't really done it in a few years as I always happened to have company! (Mostly his). But if this was a different time of year, I would do it. I don't feel bad because he'll be alone on his birthday - I'm sure he'll find some way to have a good time - but it just feels really selfish, like I was stealing his birthday present!
I also don't feel unsafe etc, I think it's too last minute for a friend to join us, but we'd already half agreed to meet some friends of friends there so I could have some company. Honestly I think I'll be ok travelling, I just don't know whether I'll feel it's a wasted trip because I'll feel guilty, or I'll see it as research for our next trip when I can be his guide around the city

Another thing we will try is cry our way to a ticket amendment for a time far enough in the future that he can get his passport sorted But should that too fail, I'll think about your comments and see.

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Well good luck! I really hope you find it. Definitely check the suitcases. I remember how I panicked when I couldn't find my ID card 3 days before flying to France for an exam...I'd put it in a photo album months before because it was sitting next to me at the time and I thought "oh it'll be safe there". Yeah..so safe I couldn't bloody well find it again. So do check everywhere. fingers crossed for you.

whitewing

If you moved house, did you use the passport as id for that?

I would bday with OH not go away.

smartpicture

To be honest, if it was me I wouldn't dream of going because I would think it was very selfish. Travelling alone wouldn't bother me, and if it wasn't his birthday present it might make things a bit easier, but no way would I go off and enjoy his birthday present when he wasn't able to!

Oh, and I have had this happen the other way around (without the birthday element), I never did find my passport so god knows what happened to it, so we didn't go. It never even occurred to either of us for him to go off on his own - if he had suggested it I would probably have agreed as it was my fault, but I would have been absolutely devastated that he even wanted to. What we did was decide to go away anyway for a cheap in-this-country premier-inn going-for-walks-and-free-museums kind of break instead, and we had a lovely time and it ended up being one of those memories we can laugh about together. Somehow I don't think we'd be laughing quite so hard if he'd gone away without me. Is something like this a possible alternative for you?

mountainofdebt

House moving file?

Handbag you used when you went to solicitor

Jacket pocket (inside?)

Briefcase

Laptop Bag?

Car glove compartment?