On holiday and they’ve taken the key and won’t answer their phone

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On holiday with a family member. We don’t always see eye to eye, but I thought this trip might be a chance for a bit of a reset.

Today we decided to do different things.

Normally I’ve had the apartment key when we’ve gone out together, but I asked them to pop it in the key safe this time. For whatever reason, they didn’t — and with their phone switched off I can’t get hold of them.

I’m making the best of it with a quiet day to myself, but I can’t help feeling a bit upset. It’s left me feeling quite stuck, literally and figuratively. I can’t leave the apartment! I’d never want to make someone else feel like that.

Any advice on how to handle the rest of the trip without letting this sour everything?

Pack your bags, up and leave. It's not right but it's ok 👍

Please post your destination when you both holiday again - I would hate to be in the same town let alone the same apartment complex.

But I have enjoyed reading about your adventures.😂

Surely if they went out first and you’re still in the apartment, they should have left the key with you and you could have put it in the key safe yourself if/when you went out? 🤔 that way you can both get in, whoever is back first

Could you ask for a second key as you're both out and about?

I definitely would NOT go out and leave the apartment unlocked as you will probably get a huge bill if someone went in and did any damage as it would be classed as negligence. If you can sit outside by door I'd do that if not, I'd relax and when they came back I'd ask for the key and say I'll look after it for the rest of the holiday. End of.

You should be able to get a key copied if the owner doesn't give out a second key.

There are times when I wonder what the point of this is?

So you’re in the apartment, and you gave them the key? Why on earth did you do that?

Also, if there’s two of you, why didn't you get two keys?

You sound a total nightmare to go on holiday with.

Have you never stayed in an airbnb? You arrive and get the key from the key lock- how do you make a second key appear? Why on earth does the OP get to hold on to the key and not her sister?

I'm the automatic locking mechanism and am bewildered that I'm seen as something imprisoning a human or something to be disabled when in fact I am a standard security mechanism in most holiday lets

Go out and arrange to meet them out (if they are close enough to pop back as that’s why they’ve got the key?) or go out and come back when they do?