Given Brexit has happened, bringing a number of changes in this kind of area, you could reasonably be expected to check your passports complied with CURRENT requirements, SOONER than a week before.
Yes, Brexit has changed the duration required for this particular destination (and I am not a supporter of Brexit) BUT this isn’t about whether this problem arising is due to Brexit or the Op.
When you plan to travel abroad, a basic admin thing is to check the passport dates for all the family members travelling…..usually at the time of booking, or in good time to act if one needs renewing. This was the case before Brexit and now. It is even more the case given Brexit has brought in changes and due to Covid many of us haven’t been abroad since Brexit, so need to properly families ourselves with the new current requirements.
The fact is, Op didn’t do that.
The fact is, she asked for advice and when people reported facts about the point she would be turned away, she was rude and told them not to comment further on the thread….when once it’s been opened, is open to everyone. She asked them not to state what she could read herself……but of course if she could read it herself, why would you need a thread anyway. And this was after numerous people had to,d her there would be NO reports of people who had got away with it, which is what she really wanted to hear. The reality wasn’t what she wanted to hear.
Most people would be a bit sympathetic to the situation Op found herself in. An admin failure can happen to any of us. When it does, we can feel disappointed but have to accept responsibility too. Where OP lost much of the sympathy she probably would have had, was in her rudeness to posters who spent their time replying to the question she asked, and also in never really being willing to accept any responsibility for what had happened.
Yes, we all get that the situation was stressful. None of us would like to find ourselves in the situation, and it happens to lots of people, because basic failures of admin happen all the time. Op hadn’t committed a terrible crime but a failure of organisation and was hoping to wing it and get through and that the rules might be just a bit flexible….wasn’t prepared to accept that this isn’t the case when several people had explained it, but kept hoping longer, that somehow, those who said they weren’t flexible would be wrong, or still she could squeeze her way through. Stressed doesn’t mean you can be rude. Appreciating and understanding when you’ve been rude, or made a mistake is a basic expectation we can have of adults.
So how did Op come across? A bit disorganised not to have checked….no-one really minds that…we can all imagine it happening to us too. But rude and arrogant is what people didn’t like in the early part of this thread. Brexit clearly played a role in this, in terms of it determining a specific length of time needed for this particular location , that the passport would have got them into pre-Covid, but given as others mentioned, the fact OP hadn’t checked the passports means it could have easily fully expired anyway, or that a failure to check passports or current requirements given all the changes that have about due to Covid, means allowing this to happen was even more daft. Not having a passport a week before the holiday lies at the Op’s feet, not Brexits. All the other people getting on that plane next week will have lived through Covid too and no doubt many of them will have had to check their passports and renew them.
OP unfortunately came across as the kind of person you meet in real life who has made a basic error, but rather than acknowledging their part in it, arrogantly is sure there must be a way for them to get what they want and surely the rules can’t apply to them, and surely there must be a way to sneak through. And at the same time as someone who dismisses anyone who speaks reason (often in a kind way) and is read shouts louder ‘tell me the way I can circumvent the rules…I cannot believe it’s not possible’. People generally don’t like these characteristics. But then I guess people with such characteristics are rarely going to have the self awareness to spot them, and if they do, won’t have the humility to acknowledge them, much less to apologise to those they’ve been rude to…because they always feel justified in their own behaviour.
Anyway, regardless of all that…I hope OP that you do get your passports or postpone your holiday and can all go. I can see this is a horrible stressful position, regardless of the causes. And perhaps when you’re lying on a beach or going onto the plane at whichever point that is, you’ll remember the many pages of this thread and laugh, and instead of thinking of ‘the bitches on MN’ think instead about a thread, which perhaps made you think about a few things, even if you’d never admit them in real life or on MN itself.
Genuinely, I hope your family get their holiday and you all have a lovely time.