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Drinking/ ID Posted: Mon January 20, 2003 07:22 PM UTC
Hello
I know that in New York you have to be over 21 to drink alcohol but what are they like for IDing people. I'm 27, which is probably making you wonder what I'm worried about but i was ided for cigarettes last year!
Should I take my passport out with me to be on the safe side or would U.S bars accept a UK proof of age card?
Thanks in advance for any help
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Re: Drinking/ ID Posted: Mon January 20, 2003 07:26 PM UTC
Bring your passport. I can't imagine that a NY bartender would know a UK proof of age card if he got hit in the head with one.
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Re: Drinking/ ID Posted: Mon January 20, 2003 07:34 PM UTC
Julie is right. Also remember that your passport is your only “real” identification form when your travel outside your country.
Alfredo
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Re: Drinking/ ID Posted: Mon January 20, 2003 07:38 PM UTC
You'll be alright in most bars - certainly in the Irish ones they won't ID you. However certain bars ID you, you'll need a drivers license/passport and it's unlikely they'll accept anything less.
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Re: Re: Drinking/ ID Posted: Mon January 20, 2003 07:47 PM UTC
i think you will be id`d in every bar you go in.i went to orlando in february and was id`d everyday in every bar i went and i was 34.
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Re: Re: Drinking/ ID Posted: Mon January 20, 2003 07:59 PM UTC
Thanks eveyone. I'll just have to be extra careful when I'm out ( bit paranoid about losing my passport)
On the same sort of lines, we want to go to a club that plays alternative music ( Strokes, White stripes etc) where do people suggest.
Will be in Manhattan ( though expect you've assumed that!)
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Re: Re: Drinking/ ID Posted: Mon January 20, 2003 07:59 PM UTC
Thanks eveyone. I'll just have to be extra careful when I'm out ( bit paranoid about losing my passport)
On the same sort of lines, we want to go to a club that plays alternative music ( Strokes, White stripes etc) where do people suggest.
Will be in Manhattan ( though expect you've assumed that!)
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Re: Re: Drinking/ ID Posted: Mon January 20, 2003 08:04 PM UTC
You could try the Knitting Factory (http://www.knittingfactory.com/ ), a club/concert venue in Soho. I don't expect you'll see The Strokes here but you might see some good up-and-coming indie/alternative bands.
>>>>>On the same sort of lines, we want to go to a club that plays alternative music ( Strokes, White stripes etc) where do people suggest.
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Re: Re: Drinking/ ID Posted: Mon January 20, 2003 08:24 PM UTC
uff - everyone said it... still they will ID you. last time in the USA I was 26 and got IDed all the time. For my boyfriend, 36 back then, it was the same story. And never mind that half the people in the bar looked underage anyway ;-)
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Re: Re: Drinking/ ID Posted: Mon January 20, 2003 08:41 PM UTC
I was asked for ID at the tender age of 37 so there really is no accounting for the way the regulations are enforced!
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Re: Re: Drinking/ ID Posted: Mon January 20, 2003 08:58 PM UTC
> I guess it is just that so many 18 year olds look like 40 already
Hm, I prefer to think that it's because so many 35-year-olds like myself are just as fresh-faced as we were at 18... :-)
I got carded a few months ago when I was out in Chicago with dlandt and his wife (she and I both got asked for ID, but he didn't--flattery for the ladies? or just a clueless doorman?)
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Re: Re: Drinking/ ID Posted: Mon January 20, 2003 09:59 PM UTC
I just come back from SF, I'm 26 and also got Id'd in most of the time...
I find that a rather funny habits: some barmen see you are from a foreign country and start chatting with you, some other were so confused with the different pages of my passport, that they really appreciate when I end up showing my belgian ID (a plastic card) ;-))
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Re: Drinking/ ID Posted: Tue January 21, 2003 04:22 AM UTC
they'll actually actept any kind of picture ID. I never carry my passport around, neither ever bothered to get a NY state ID. I always show my portuguese ID card (which in fact expired a couple of years ago).
but except for some irish bars, almost everywhere, you may be 40, look 50, but with no ID, no deal.
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Re: Drinking/ ID Posted: Tue January 21, 2003 04:24 AM UTC
by the way, a photocopy of your passport will work just fine. no need to carry the actual passport around
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Re: Re: Drinking/ ID Posted: Tue January 21, 2003 06:49 AM UTC
Old Cliffie has visited scores of bars in New York over the years and has yet to see anyone asked for ID. Of course, it may have something to with the type of bar he frequents. Even when he went out regularly one summer with an 18-year-old Bulgarian friend, she was never once asked for ID in the several bars we went to.
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