Ex wants passport details

LegacyUser

First time boards.ie user

I was seeing a girl for 2 years and we booked a holiday last September to go to Spain with her friends. However, I ended it last month. I paid €600 out of the €800 for the holiday but am content to let it go if it means she won't contact me again.

However she's been ringing me asking for my passport details so she can cancel my ticket (also adding that she's not interested in getting the other €200 which I owe her).

Do you need passport details to cancel a holiday package?

mahamageehad

HolidayInTheSun wrote: »

First time boards.ie user

I was seeing a girl for 2 years and we booked a holiday last September to go to Spain with her friends. However, I ended it last month. I paid €600 out of the €800 for the holiday but am content to let it go if it means she won't contact me again.

However she's been ringing me asking for my passport details so she can cancel my ticket (also adding that she's not interested in getting the other €200 which I owe her).

Do you need passport details to cancel a holiday package?

That seems really strange. When you say details do you mean just your name as it appears in your passport or do you mean passport number or a copy of it? I don't understand why you wouldn't be able to just contact the agency and cancel yourself?

D0NNELLY

Would she need the details to log onto your booking online and change it into someone elses name?

Teyla Emmagan

Cancel the ticket yourself

HolidayInTheSun

HolidayInTheSun wrote: »

Do you need passport details to cancel a holiday package?

You need passport details to book a flight, which is part of a package so to change it or cancel it, I guess it's possible to need the passport details at that point too.

Lux23

What could she do with your passport number and name anyway? Just give it to her.

witchgirl26

Deleted User wrote: »

You need passport details to book a flight, which is part of a package so to change it or cancel it, I guess it's possible to need the passport details at that point too.

I've never had to provide passport details when booking a flight or a package holiday. Before check-in yeah and for any advance passenger information required by countries like Spain. I could see the need for the name as it appears on the passport but not the number.

mahamageehad

witchgirl26 wrote: »

I've never had to provide passport details when booking a flight or a package holiday. Before check-in yeah and for any advance passenger information required by countries like Spain. I could see the need for the name as it appears on the passport but not the number.

Same here. I know there's nothing she can do with the info probably, but I'd be reluctant to give it. Like, at a push I could see why you might need passport info to book a holiday (although I've never seen that happen except certain Ryanair flights) but I can't imagine why you'd need to he info to cancel it?

Based on the comments about leaving the money go, is there a possibility that this is just an excuse to stay in contact OP? Next thing she'll need something else from you.

Airyfairy12

If it was an excuse to keep in touch she'd be arranging to meet you for return of the 200 euro. It sounds like she's changing the name on the flight ticket to somebody else, she probably needs your name as it appears on your passport as that's the name that would have been used to book the ticket.

unknowngirl!!

To change flights as part of a package holiday you often need the full name, a passport number and expiration date. It depends on which airline the agency has used to book the flights.

Just take a picture of your passport and send it to her. Have it fairly far out so she'll need to zoom to get the info but she won't be able to do any *harm* with it.

Most likely she's changing your details and getting someone else to pay the fee to join her. To be honest I'd do the same, I love holidays!

Buffman

HolidayInTheSun wrote: »

I paid €600 out of the €800 for the holiday but am content to let it go if it means she won't contact me again.

Sounds to me like you might be paying €600 towards someone else's holiday. Tell her your passport details will cost €600 minus whatever non-refundable deposits you may have incurred by cancelling.

zoobizoo

Why not get ask her:

"are you planning to go on the trip? "

Or tell her:

" I'll cancel it directly with the travel company "

If you don't want her going that is.... .

skallywag

I certainly would not be giving an ex my passport details, I would be doing whatever is necessary myself.

Turtle_

Sounds like she's changing the name on the booking rather than cancelling. Ask her outright if she's doing that. You don't mind if she is, but, if she is then you want your €600 back.

If she says no, call her bluff and tell her you'll cancel your portion yourself.

leggo

To be fair, I can't remember the specifics, but I broke up with an ex a while back before a holiday and decided to go myself. To cancel online with one particular airline, I needed her passport number, but I didn't want to talk to or deal with her, so I had to ring them up myself. It was a bit of hassle but it all got sorted without in the end. But there is a possibility it's above board.

Having said that, though, if it was me I'd just cancel myself like others have said.

C3PO

So what if she wants to bring somebody else? The OP has already written off the €600 and by his own admission it was he who finished the relationship ... let her do whatever is needed to transfer the holiday if that is what she wants to do!

Little CuChulainn

skallywag wrote: »

I certainly would not be giving an ex my passport details, I would be doing whatever is necessary myself.

Why? What do you think they'd do with them?

Turtle_

C3PO wrote: »

So what if she wants to bring somebody else? The OP has already written off the €600 and by his own admission it was he who finished the relationship ... let her do whatever is needed to transfer the holiday if that is what she wants to do!

There's a difference between writing it off because the holiday won't happen and paying for your ex's friend to go on holiday

skallywag

Little CuChulainn wrote: »

Why? What do you think they'd do with them?

Someone with an axe to grind may conceivably attempt to act maliciously with such information. E.g. use the information in an attempt to cancel the passport, etc. Imagine the fallout from this if one happened to be overseas at the time?

I would hope that safeguards would be in place to prevent something like this happening, but I would prefer to err on the side of caution and keep my passport number, date-of-issue, expiry date, etc. all to myself, whenever possible.

leggo

Yeah, to be fair, should it not work the other way around when it comes to giving people personal info? Like "what's the worst that can happen?" seems like flimsy logic in a world where identity theft, hacking passwords/credit card details etc is rife. I'd be more of the opinion that I'd only give someone ANY kind of personal documents/info if it was absolutely essential or stood to benefit me, unless you're talking immediately family.