Can I travel to France using a passport that is in my maiden name?

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My passport has 4yrs left on it. It costs £77 or so to change the name on it. I do not have £77. I don't have £7. I may have 70p.

I've had a google and some people seem to suggest that I could take my marriage certificate along as well as the passport. Some people say I would have to book travel tickets etc in my maiden name. Some people say I will be placed in stocks and/or hanged and/or beaten on the bottom with a Woman's Weekly.

Does anybody know definitively?

definate book tickets in yr maiden name so that they match up I did this on my honeymoon

agree with hols - book your tickets in your maiden name and the you won't need the marriage cert (as advised by a travel agent)

I've been married for 6 yrs now and every holiday I've taken has been as Miss Whinge!!!

As long a name on passport and ticket match, no probs. May be probs if you are taking your DC and they have a different surname to your maiden name though. Take your marriage cert and their birth certs.

yy They don't care what your name is as long as the tickets & passport names match.

If you've booked the tickets in your married name then you'll have to change them or get new passport, whichever is cheaper.

I went to france last summer on a passport in my maiden name. Tickets booked in maiden name too, so passport matched up, and no one asked to see marriage certificate. Was no problem, but I worried about it too...

Unless, like some people say, you are called The Stig, I would not worry.

Ooh thank you. My parents are taking us to Disneyland Paris (well they're taking dd really, I think we're just optional extras/the entourage/there to make up the numbers) and it isn't booked yet. DD does have my married surname but then so does dh, obviously, so I don't think anybody will question it, will just think I kept my maiden name surely. Or dd isn't mine despite being my carbon copy. Just didn't know if I could do it iyswim.

A passport for dd is going to be all I can stretch to. Will be quite the novelty being a Miss, haven't been one for about 5 years.