sd21
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Post by sd21 on Aug 27, 2007 22:22:17 GMT -5
Ill be 17 turning 18 in about 4 or 5 months before I go to Europe.
Ill be travelling by myself, will I have any trouble getting into hostels or bars or clubs.
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Post by me on Aug 27, 2007 22:46:19 GMT -5
to the best of my knowledge, you'd have no problems at all. if you'll be there after that magical 18th b-day, i think you're home free. [actually, in many places, it's 16]
look here: www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/LegalDrinkingAge.html
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sd21
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Post by sd21 on Aug 27, 2007 22:51:41 GMT -5
My birthdays in July and I want to go around March
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Post by WillTravel on Aug 27, 2007 23:03:38 GMT -5
Some hostels have an age limit like 18-35. Just look carefully to see if there will be a problem.
My daughter went to a music show in London on our recent trip that required you to be 18. However, she had no problems getting in (she is 16). I think continental Europe is generally more relaxed.
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Post by me on Aug 28, 2007 18:16:35 GMT -5
forgot about this. i had an interesting, sad, experience regarding a European age restriction:
one time i was in Göteborg, Sweden, with a college classmate. we stayed with some really hot friends of his, and while there i called a teenaged Swedish girl i'd met in Dallas. she'd been an exchange student living with friends of my mother's.
we all went out to a local nightclub, but the former Dallas exchange student in was turned away. she was too young to get in & tried to pass herself as an American, with us, who'd left her passport "at the hotel."
she did her best to act dumb when the bouncer asked her something in Swedish. but, some of us - me included - had already paid the cover, and were inside. so, she just walked away.
i never heard from her again. sad, but i also couldn't abandon the others.
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sd21
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Post by sd21 on Aug 28, 2007 23:43:57 GMT -5
france, belgium, italy, portugal and a bunch of others have drinking ages of 16 others like Netherlands and Germany its just beer at 16
I look about 20 anyways so i shouldnt have a problem
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Post by me on Aug 29, 2007 21:40:19 GMT -5
legal drinking age and the age required to get in clubs may not be the same. some places might be more limiting in the interest of "exclusivity."
- d
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mega
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Post by mega on Jan 20, 2008 15:59:10 GMT -5
I'm also going to be 17 when i go this fall, im no so worried about getting into clubs or anything, but will i be able to get train or plane tickets legally, and will there be any problem with me crossing into other countries, the countries im going to are France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, and all through the UK
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Post by crystal on Jan 24, 2008 9:13:05 GMT -5
You will have no problems getting train tickets legally and as far as I know plane tickets in the UK.
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