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Major plot hole (spoiler)


When checking in at a foreign hotel, travelers are asked to surrender their passports to the hotel. This is to ensure that the hotel gets paid when you check out, as you don't get your passport back until you have paid the bill. As such, when Selena's character checks in at the hotel in Monte Carlo, the desk clerk would know immediately from her passport that she was an american and not the british heiress she was pretending to be. But this fact would have stopped this movie short, and was obviously passed over to continue the story.

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I was a bit young (aka still a minor) the last time I traveled outside the country so I wouldn't have had to be the one to surrender my passport, my parents would since they were the adults I was with. However, when I asked them about it, they said that on both our foreign trips, they didn't have to surrender their passports.

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That was my issue as well. If the tour sucks, get off and go see the sights on your own terms. Or was the tour booked and paid for and they were afraid of losing their money? However, them just abandoning their luggage to me was a major flaw of the movie. Otherwise I liked it if only because I adored the scenes with Meg and Riley.

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Here in the US, the State Department specifically tells you not to surrender your passport to anyone.

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