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"Left Blue Badge back in the UK"

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SnugOpalHare · 04/11/2025 14:44

Went on a holiday recently to Europe. The hotel car park only has a limited amount of 6 disabled parking bays. All of the disabled bays were taken and one of the cars parked had handwritten note on the dashboard which read "Left Blue Badge back home in UK". My dad was angry and complained to hotel reception as he felt it was not on and they could be lying about having a blue badge. However my mum was more relaxed and said they probably just forgot to bring it by accident and nothing more sinister is at play.

Where do you all stand on this issue?

OP posts:
LuckyNumberFive · 04/11/2025 15:01

A UK blue badge surely isn't even an indicator of accessible space eligibility elsewhere in Europe?

OccasionalHope · 04/11/2025 14:59

Sorry for multiple posts…

OccasionalHope · 04/11/2025 14:59

It wouldn’t even be valid overseas anyway.

OccasionalHope · 04/11/2025 14:59

It wouldn’t even be valid overseas anyway.

OccasionalHope · 04/11/2025 14:59

It wouldn’t even be valid overseas anyway.

OccasionalHope · 04/11/2025 14:58

It wouldn’t even be valid overseas anyway.

FaitesVosJeux · 04/11/2025 14:57

Where do you all stand on this issue?

Just slightly over there minding my own bloody business. Try it sometime.

MrsTerryPratchett · 04/11/2025 14:55

I find life is more pleasurable if you assume other people aren't arseholes without proof.

Blanketfull · 04/11/2025 14:54

Unless your dad is entitled to and needed the space, why give it any energy at all?

GreenGreenGreenRed · 04/11/2025 14:53

If the hotel were ok with it there's not much you could have done. You could raise the poor allocation of spaces with the hotel though, since there weren't enough.

arethereanyleftatall · 04/11/2025 14:46

How would anyone here, or your mum, or your dad, know?
i don’t have any opinion on this, I’d just get on with my day.