Do you still print boarding passes / AirBnB confirmation / train tickets etc?

[rickyrickygrimes]

Random question... currently doing online check-in for some flights and wondering if I really need to print the boarding passes? In theory I can do everything on my phone but... When we last travelled (Christmas) I did print everything and take it with us, but didn't use any of it as everything was available on my phone and it was much easier than faffing around with paper copies.

Do you still print these docs off and carry them with you when you travel?

It’s a few years since I printed boarding passes. I just add them to my phone wallet.

Why not emails? They've been around for decades

I don't for this country. But I generally do if I'm flying somewhere.

I print, save things to my wallet, save the emails, and take screen shots. I also usually have my laptop with me too. I don't leave anything to chance!

But surely if you have downloaded the docs, you don’t need to connect?

As a pp said - be aware that in some places ( Marrakech being one) you have to print your boarding pass.

Yes I always print but often ending up using the phone, knowing the print is in my back pocket or somewhere if needed. One time my phone acted up going through security at an airport so I was very relieved to have the back up. At a concert if the scan fails you can go to a ticket desk and get it resolved much faster with a paper copy than them having to do a system search.

Only yesterday I brought DS and some pals to the cinema and didn't print the ticket although I always do, I just forgot. I scanned them in and left, but they forgot their seat numbers and had a panic, they walked around looking for staff and ended up phoning me to sort it out, they missed the start of the movie. This has confirmed that I was right to always print!

Boarding passes yes, for the reasons already given on here. Train tickets, no because my railcard is on the Trainline app and I need to be able to show it.

Although I have taken a screenshot of my railcard just in case.

BTW train companies won't accept screenshots of tickets. I asked a ticket collector once.

No I don't print. But I do screenshot all tickets and qr codes etc in case there's no connection. Plus it's then very easy to have all tickets in one place on your phone instead of different apps.

Until your phone is stolen. Or eaten by wild animals. Or explodes. That's why I never trust one device!

Only boarding passes after I was returning through a very small terminal at a European airport where the machines suddenly couldn't read the e-passes. The people who'd printed sailed through whilst we had to wait in a big crowd for it to be fixed.

True, but it strikes me that 90% of emails are unwanted junk. It’s unnecessary admin. I do have an email address that was created when I got my phone, but I didn’t bother finishing setting it up, so I can’t receive or send anything. So if I want to buy something on line, I use that email address. But there’s nothing about emails that strike me as necessary or desirable.

You've never had an email address?? Can I ask how old you are?

No apps either? It makes life so simple when getting test results, booking tickets, parking oh a myriad of reasons. I can't imagine being so determined not to make life easier...

It depends on the trip.
Abroad, definitely
Uk Airbnb type, no.

I'm mid 30s

I have a work one, along with Teams etc, but obviously don’t use that for personal stuff. And I had one donkeys years ago that was on my phone, but then I changed phones, couldn’t remember the log in details etc and didn’t see the need to have another one, so I abandoned it. So now I have the best of both worlds; an address that I can use for on line shopping but that I never have to check because nothing can get through. It works perfectly. And I’m late 40s.

Nope, no apps. I have an iPhone but I stopped setting it up once I’d got texts and phone calls sorted so I think I need to set up some kind of account before I can download anything, but I don’t actually need to, so I haven’t. I think they make life unnecessarily complicated. If I need test results I can either phone my surgery or, if it’s anything I need treatment for, they’ll phone me. I don’t drive so no need for a parking app. If I order tickets, it’s only ever for a local venue and they can send them to me. There’s no determination not to make my life easier, I just can’t think of a single way that an app would make it easier.

Yes, I feel safer having tickets on paper (I'm old). I went to the O2 with dd once, but she decided to meet me in there and sent me my ticket via Ticketmaster. I couldn't connect to the wifi and got really panicky not being able to access the ticket or phone dd to tell her why I wasn't in the venue. I eventually did get in, but if I'd had a paper copy of my ticket I'd have avoided a whole load of stress and not missed half the support band's set.

Yes, I print it out because I like to have a back-up to my phone.

Also handy for showing the taxi driver the name and address of the hotel I've booked on arrival at the airport. (Solo traveller).

Later I use the back of them for to-do and shopping lists.

Crikey, I can't imagine never using apps and emails.

Tickets - nothing I have booked in recent years posts tickets out any more. If I go to the local cinema my booked tickets are emailed to me and I need to show them the QR code.

I am a member of a charity and we communicate via email and WhatsApp

I am a member of another group that meets regularly and meetings are arranged via email

Our utilities supplier, building societies, bank, HMRC all communicate via email

Hotel bookings, holidays and other travel is always confirmed via email

Orders are confirmed via email. I can track them and make sure I am in to receive them

My hobby group communicates via WhatsApp

I have various store cards as apps on my phone - Tesco, Sparks, Boots etc. Takes up much less room than a bulging wallet

I use the Trainline to buy train tickets. I also have my railcard on my Trainline app

Not using apps and emails would definitely make my life more difficult and very small

This. A piece of paper works fine. I have the info on the device but like the paper copy to hand. Seen too many IT/phone issues to trust the device.

I only print when it is specifically asked. (The tickets to “our” zoo need to be printed..)
Or when I get really nervous about what could go wrong, when going on an expensive long haul trip for instance.
But otherwise I make a picture that I save on my phone. Or save the documents on my phone and also email to my DH as a backup.

No I just save them to my photos or WhatsApp so i can find them easily when I need them

I’m puzzled how anyone can register as a MN user and not have an email address.

Never. They're on my phone. Plus, I don't have a printer.

I don't print any tickets and I've never had a problem. I could always access things from someone else's device if my phone went astray, and if I'm doing something alone I must be extra vigilant because I've never lost my phone or had one stolen.

Important things go in my phone wallet and shared with others if I'm doing something as a group. I just don't see the risk, so I'm happy to make things easy for myself. Plus the thought of getting into an argument with my printer is worse than arguing with a ticket inspector.

It was useful to have a print out of the hotel booking when we flew into JFK last summer - the immigration official asked for proof and I found it easier to hand over a piece of paper than to faff around with a phone.

Not if you are flying out of Koh Samui! I had to listen to a second hand long and loud argument recently between the security staff and a traveller who only had a digital boarding pass - needed paper. I think some airports are still like this so if I've not been before I do sometimes print.