Any advice for being left photo ID-less in France?

crazymama said:

Thanks for all the input everyone. Her passport does have her au paire visa in it so it is even more valuable to her... that was a bit of a procedure to get. I think she is just worried about the day to day photo ID... for example when she goes to London to meet up with her best friend and they want to grab a glass of wine. It burns her to be of legal age to order a drink but not be able to prove it... lol! Passport Canada strongly advises against using the passport as proof of age in "establishments." She will get a money belt and we will make sure that we have pictures of all the pages. She's a pretty smart girl and the Starbucks theft was a real eye opener to her. Life lessons!

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bcla said:

There's probably not much she can do other than to use her passport. A business could also run into the difficulty of having to contend with possibly tens of thousands of different types of ID from around the world and deciding to limit which ones will be acceptable.

I know in California, it's not clear if a Canadian provincial driver license is considered an acceptable ID to purchase alcohol. The law says that the affirmative defense for business that sell alcohol is that one of the IDs was issued by a state/federal/local government. But some businesses have interpreted this as meaning only within the US. We've discussed this a bunch on the Disneyland boards here. Canadian visitors have asked, and apparently for them the only acceptable alcohol ID is a passport.

https://disneyland.disney.go.com/faq/dining/alcohol-policy/
Non-United States Residents

Original passports are the only form of identification acceptable for Guests from outside the United States; non-United States driver’s licenses, ID cards, temporary ID cards and copies of ID cards are not acceptable.​

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firecracker725 said:

Well if she's just wanting to get a drink in France, she won't need ID. Can't speak for London, but there's an entirely different attitude towards that type of thing in Europe in general.

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morgan98 said:

I was robbed in France in October, long story and had my passport stolen, but not my driver's license.

Having a passport is sufficient as that is the only id she should really need. I never provide my driver's license overseas for ID and I spend about a month a year in Europe.

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