Some advice pls

lisaf

Hi All,

I wonder if you lovely people could advise me? My older daughter (23) is taking my 2 youngest TO Egypt in the half term for a week whilst I'm away at a wedding.

She has a different surname to them so will I have to giver her a signed letter giving my permission to take them?

Lisa x

Archergirl

It might be better if you gave the title more info so people can see what you need to know, not everyone reads everything.............
I would give a letter just in case.

maman

lisaf wrote: »

Hi All,

I wonder if you lovely people could advise me? My older daughter (23) is taking my 2 youngest TO Egypt in the half term for a week whilst I'm away at a wedding.

She has a different surname to them so will I have to giver her a signed letter giving my permission to take them?

Lisa x

I'd agree it's better to give her a letter to be on the safe side. So something like 'I give my permission for my daughter Jane Smith (nee Jones) to take my son Tom Jones and Susie Jones on holiday to ......

lisaf

Thankyou both:)

FBaby

How old are the youngest ones? We took a friend of my DD with us last year so took a letter from her mother with us but easyjet couldn't have cared less. Considering children can fly alone from the age of 12 they are not fussed when there are over that age. It's another matter if they are younger.

Heliflyguy

FBaby wrote: »

Considering children can fly alone from the age of 12 they are not fussed when there are over that age. It's another matter if they are younger.

Depends on the airline. AA recently upped the age a person can fly on their own to 15.

peachyprice

FBaby wrote: »

How old are the youngest ones? We took a friend of my DD with us last year so took a letter from her mother with us but easyjet couldn't have cared less. Considering children can fly alone from the age of 12 they are not fussed when there are over that age. It's another matter if they are younger.

We took our daughters 13yo friend on holiday with us last year, it wasn't the airline that wanted a letter to fly out it was UK immigration who wanted the letter to get back in.

Same thing happened to the same girl when she travelled back to the UK through Calais with her older sister with a different surname.

Strange thing is I've travelled for the last 20 years with my own children with a different surname to me but have never been asked.

Flugelhorn

peachyprice wrote: »

Strange thing is I've travelled for the last 20 years with my own children with a different surname to me but have never been asked.

Agreed - never been a problem... perhaps they can tell that they are my kids? It's the eyebrows I reckon

peachyprice

Flugelhorn wrote: »

Agreed - never been a problem... perhaps they can tell that they are my kids? It's the eyebrows I reckon

Nothing better than a fine set of eyebrows!

Perhaps you're right, we're all dark haired and not particularly British looking, the friend is blonde haired, blue eyed and very British looking.

busiscoming2

I travelled for years with my children, two of whom had different surnames to me and DH. No one ever questioned it.