20 year old daughter having to spend night at JFK airport.

It’s great it’s busy there
can she ask member of staff to help her out ?
bless good luck .. keep us posted

This.

Sounds like you got some helpful advice and surely that's what Mumsnet is for.

Not outside EU

You should check with airline, normally they give compensation (refund) if the delay is over a certain amount of hours.

I got about £300 back for the flight being about 12 hours late once.

It is worth a check

I always travel alone round the world with a thin flat money belt next to the skin and inside my jeans. Even on an overnight train in China. Can fit passport, cards and cash. It isn't bulky and not hot and sticky. I have never been asked to remove it at the control checks.

This is nonsense. Only ticketed passengers are allowed beyond security checkpoints in U.S. airports.

They do so when the delay is caused by something within their control. Their own equipment failure, staffing issues, etc.

But not in the case of weather or something else external.

I have read somewhere that US airlines have no obligation provide hotels or sustenance, nothing like the support in the UK and EU

So pleased it’s all sorted, homeless people hang out in the airports in the US at night, no way I’d sleep in one.

I am also curious to those that said they would refuse their 20 year old daughter help (or support) in this situation. So how would that call go? If they rang in the middle of the night, strange country needing help would would your response be? 'No darling sorry, I know you are alone and distressed 1000s of miles away, and yes it's potentially unsafe and you feel vaunerable but you are over 18 now so it's really time you stop calling your parents for help tut tut. Well anyway good luck I'm off to bed now goodnight' And then what? You tuck yourself in for a good night sleep....really 🤣🙈
Or perhaps they sadly wouldn't bother to call at all as they already know what your response would be.....

Lol at all the 'mothers' that would leave their 20yr (or any aged) daughters (or sons) to fend for themselves when reaching out for help in another country in the middle of the night. I had no idea so many shitty parents existed! My eldest is 24 and I would do anything to help if they needed me (as would my parents for me aged 40)
Feel so sad that not everyone has this support tbh

I slept at JFK one night about 25 years ago and it was uncomfortable but felt pretty safe. There were lots of other travellers doing the same and I am sure she will not be alone either. You just line up on the seats with your head on your case. She will be fine.

I have just been booking quite ordinary hotels in the US and have been shocked at prices.

A random tip. Singapore also has a hotel airside. If you have a few hours layover you can just pay for access to their pool. They provide towels. So a swim, some time in the sun, and a shower ready for the next leg to New Zealand.

I so want to put that hotel on my bucket list! It just looks like so much fun, especially if you can be by the runway.

Ditto! I would still rather know my DD or DS is safe in a hotel room than lying around at the airport. My sanity is worth the cost.

Do you people never call on others for advice even if you know what to do?! It’s perfectly possible to be independent and capable but still benefit from reassurance from others. Sounds emotionally well adjusted to me

Clearly not. Asking questions and helping each other means you lack resilience.

It could also mean that you are sensible enough to realise you don't know everything.

I also love the idea that a 20 year old should get a cab to a hotel on her own as opposed to staying in an airport. Yeah right.

I am much older than 20. I successfully manage to run my own home, manage a big team of employees and have my own family but sometimes, I find myself asking my mum for help and advice. Maybe she was jet lagged and wanted a bit of reassurance? She travelling alone, so sounds resilient and independent enough to me. It’s not like she’s 45 years old, never left home and called her mum to ask her how to boil an egg!

Do you people never call on others for advice even if you know what to do?! It’s perfectly possible to be independent and capable but still benefit from reassurance from others. Sounds emotionally well adjusted to me. I’m sure those who got a leg accidentally sawn off at Timbuktu airport but never even bothered to get a plaster - let alone phone their mum - are very well adjusted people! 🤔

Perhaps the insurance is in mum's name. It's a family policy.

OP, your daughter is 20, she is an adult.
Is she not capable of making decisions herself about an airport hotel or not?

It was nice of her to let you know, but she really should be sorting these things out herself.

I just hope she didn't embark on a gap year through Asia, as she really would struggle!

Actually thinking about it, my plane wasn’t delayed it was cancelled (still don’t remember why) and I was put onto a flight 24/hrs later. I’d just arrived in Chicago from New Zealand and I was so tired.

I’ve no idea tbh, I don’t remember the circumstances of why my flight was delayed, but it was delayed 24 hours and I got accommodation. I’m sure it wasn’t weather related though.

I had an 11hr wait in Bangkok airport many years ago, I struggled to stay awake, and it was crap. I ended up ringing my mum and crying down the phone to her. I was a similar age to your daughter, jet-lagged and utterly exhausted. Pay for a hotel for her pls