I'll be staying in Paris for several weeks and I am planning to stay at an Ibis hotel. I want to know if I am able to invite unregistered guests during the day (not to sleep, eat, or take advantage of any other service). Or if I have to pay a fee.
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Can I let my friend come and join me in my hotel room, just for visiting? Not sleeping or eating.
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I was watching the Bond flick  last night. In it, Bond ends up in terrible shape, but manages to escape to the shores of Hong Kong, where he strolls into the lobby of a swanky hotel, is instantly recognized, and equipped, and away you go...  My question is this: supposing I'm NOT going to be recognized, but I've lost my wallet, all ID, everything. How do I get reconnected with my financials? Let me make it clear, I'm not asking how I get a free room and masseuse with no ID, I'm asking how does a real person get a place to stay for the night, some fresh clothes and food.  Let's also assume that I AM actually paying for it, somehow, though I don't have cash or a credit card.  Thoughts?
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I have applied for a Schengen visa in the Consulate of Italy. I will be visiting for a 2 month period to attend a dance workshop. However, I plan to visit my boyfriend twice. He is studying in Germany currently and we made plans to meet up while I'm there. I will be visiting for a week or so both times. I did not put this in my itinerary. Will I still be able to visit?   Also, I just made some random hotel booking on booking.com in order to apply. Can I cancel those bookings and book an accommodation elsewhere if I want, once I get the visa?
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Can anyone tell me if the 90 days is in fact 90 nights? Can you leave the Schengen area on the 91st day? Or are you only allowed 89 nights and you are required to leave on the 90th day?
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I was wondering whether the time shown is the time I would be arriving in France so its time zone etc.  I know France is an hour ahead so not sure if I'm right in my assumption... It would be useful to know as I plan on traveling to the States and other European countries soon as well.
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I am a Saint Lucian and will be traveling to Manchester, UK soon about which I am a bit nervous.  Run Down:   I own a small business in my country (in the Caribbean), I have a certificate mentioning the details of the business from my Government. I pay rent in my country, but I do not have any loans (I hate owing). I pay life insurance in my country. I have a US B-1/B-2 visa (Visitor &amp; Business). I have visited the US once (last year November) on my US B-1/B-2 visa.   What I will be doing in the UK:   I plan to spend three months out of the six months which would be granted if I get leave to enter stamp. I plan to skydive in the first week and spend a few nights at an Airbnb. I plan to visit the Manchester Football Club stadium, I'm not the biggest of football fans but since I'm in Manchester, why not! I plan to do some more sightseeing and enjoy my time there. After the first week I will be staying with my female friend who owns an apartment for the rest of the time showing me around and helping me experience the UK lifestyle until June.   Why I'm leaving in June:   I am a WordPress enthusiast (I'm a Programmer) and WordCamp EU will be happening in France this year so I plan to fly from the UK to Paris where I will spend three days then take another flight from there to my country.   How my flights will be:   I will be taking a one-way Thomas Cook flight from my country to Manchester but will be purchasing my ticket for Manchester to France ahead of time so I could show Thomas Cook as well as Immigration that I don't plan to stay.   My concerns, could someone address them point by point please?:   I have a bank account but I just use it for collecting easy payments from my clients and pay for expenses. I store my savings in a credit union because of higher interest rates paid than the bank. When I applied for my US visa I showed a credit union statement showing my total balance. I'm seeing online that I should provide statements but these statements would look very bad since I my bank account is just for expenses... I mean it sometimes gets as low as $30 then, when my monthly earnings come in from clients, I withdraw savings to the credit union and leave what I need in the account for expenses. I read another post and it said people with bank statements showing poor spending might have difficulty but it's simply because the account is used for expenses not savings. For the later stages of my visit (after the first week) I will be staying with my friend. I will simply be staying with her to save on cost of Airbnbs for the next two months three weeks, even though they could be cheap, free is better right? I will be booking the Airbnb, skydiving and tours prior to traveling to the UK, will that help? Is my stay too long for staying with someone? I won't be depending on her for anything since I have my own funds...it's just convenient that she has a place where I could stay. If it is then I don't have a problem shortening my stay to 1-2 weeks and just head back to my country and take a separate flight to Paris in June.   I am nervous because I really want to visit the UK and see my friend, I am also not sure if the minimum amount of time that could be given to a visitor is six months? What if I get a round trip for two weeks and the Immigration officer gives me exactly two weeks stay, is that possible? Or is the minimum they could give six months?  Your help is very much appreciated, I want soon to try backpacking (nomad life) but I don't think my poor heart could take the stress of worrying about immigration :(  Update  Since people in the comments are asking about my relationship with the friend I plan to stay with even though she's from my country originally but now a UK citizens and we are simply friends.
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I am planning to travel to Germany from India and would want to stay in Paris in between for a week. I have Fiktionsbescheinigung from the German Government.
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I want to travel around the East Coast without paying for lodging.  I'd be willing to sleep in my car or even pitch a tent somewhere. Is this a problem?  Legal?  I really want to get to the beach this season but I’m afraid that lodging will be out of my price range.  Specifically Maryland, Delaware, maybe New Jersey or Virginia.
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I’ve a date and I really waited long to make this happen. My gifrfriend is a bit worried about the security issue in Paris. Which locals think that the media is exagerrating the issue and the issue is small and non-threatening for tourists?
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Every time I check out of a hotel, they ask me if my stay went fine, let me review my incidental charges and ask if they should charge the credit card used to check in.   But what if I simply walk out of the hotel without formally "checking out"? They have my credit card on file and these days you don't even have to return your room key if you want to keep a souvenir. Would it be rude and create more work for hotel employees?  The question arose after spending 15 minutes in the check out queue at a major US hotel.
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On the one hand, I'm aware that  in the US do not have a valid government ID. On the other hand, traveling within the US requires you to show a piece of ID wherever you go - even when taking a Greyhound.   So let's say you're an American who has a large number of cash in their pocket but no ID whatsoever. Would you be able to get from New York to San Francisco or from Seattle to Miami? If so, what are your options? Even though I do have plenty of identification documents, I find it enjoyable to be able to travel anonymously.
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The  says:  foreign nationals who have been in any of the following countries during the past 14 days may not enter the United States.  and then goes on to list Schengen, UK, Brazil, China, Brazil, Iran. However, the  is opening back up to both US and UK tourists starting 1 July, including Puerto Rico. Could I not just go to the Caribbean for 14 days, chill on the beach, and then enter the US? I had a big US road trip planned this summer and don't want to give up on it!
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A good friend's daughter is in a bad way.   Not to get into too many irrelevant details, but... She was sent to Arizona to dry out, ended up getting ripped off and is currently living in a shelter. She has no money, and no photo ID.   I'm trying to get her back to Colorado as soon as possible; she's in danger staying where she is, and sending her money will likely increase that danger.   Greyhound sells "will call" tickets on their website. However, they appear to require the traveler to have a photo ID in order to pick them up. Given Greyhound doesn't normally ask for ID, I'm hoping there is a way around this requirement.  Ideas?
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We are US travelers who will be spending 2 weeks in France (Bordeaux through Provence to Nice) in mid-April 2013.  We understand that Europe is well ahead of the US in the use of EMV (chip-and-pin) technology for credit cards, and all of our cards are traditional magnetic stripe only.  We would like to use a credit card for as many expenses as possible.  We will be using public transport as well as renting a car, purchasing gasoline, etc.  What is the current state of EMV vs. magnetic stripe card acceptance in France?  Should we inquire about EMV cards with our card issuers?
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Is there a resource that warns me for (almost) any city / destination when my travel dates coincide with some big event there?  Illustrative example: Say I want to travel to Frankfurt and I'm fairly flexible in my dates. Once a year Frankfurt hosts the international automobile trade fair IAA and during that time most hotels in the city are booked up, even hostel bed prices triple well beyond EUR60 a night and you can figure 1-2 hours to wait for a dinner table if you did not book days in advance. Since I am flexible I would like to avoid this hassle and travel another time, so I want to know, what are the times to avoid?     Now for Frankfurt I do know this and could look up the dates of the IAA and avoid those, but then there are thousands of other small or big conferences or trade fairs in Frankfurt every year and I don't know how for every single event how big of an impact it has. And in fact I am looking for a resource that could tell me for any city which are the dates to avoid, i.e. not only trade fairs in Frankfurt but also say Oktoberfest time in Munich. These are all examples I know to avoid, but I seek similar information for places I am not familiar with.   Some ideas:    One could  One could contact the local tourist info, but that means asking and waiting for a reply and I would prefer to look it up right on a website.  A good guidebook might have that info but I was more looking for an online-resource.
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We (Russian citizens) are planning to go to Munich in late June. We would like to book our accommodation on AirBnB, but it is not very clear whether it will be accepted by the German embassy when we apply for a Schengen visa.  I can't find such information on the German embassy site or on the VFS-Global site. I've also searched for it on the Internet, and, while most sites agree that AirBnB booking is generally OK for a visa, I don't see a clear answer for Germany specifically, and there seems to be some exceptions for other European countries.
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I booked a room from booking.com just for the visa. The room that I booked didn't require a credit card information and I did the booking without reading the conditions.  Now I noticed that 320 CAD is required for cancellations. I sent several emails to booking.com but no one replied so far.  Did anyone face such a situation before? How could they take the money without credit card info?