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Is it possible to travel in Europe in Ukrainian. driver's old-style (laminated?)
In particular, Montenegro, Greece (rent there). I do not want to change to new plastic ones because of the expiration date
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The man has old rights, no problems. We were stopped in Hungary, Serbia and Montenegro, but we had our own car. I will not tell you about the rent.
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answered 7 years ago
I read on the forums, I saw different opinions. 1) Some write that a fine can be soldered for this if the police stop or an accident. 2) I also heard that it is possible to make some special international rights, which seem to duplicate their relatives, but without "relatives" they are not valid. And there, like below: "contact us, the cost is such and such." Somehow this version seemed to me some kind of divorce for suckers. After all, what are these "international rights" that are not valid without ordinary ones? Just a piece of paper
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answered 7 years ago
1. I traveled by car from Kyiv to Europe 4 times to different countries, dashed off a total of more than 20 thousand km. In addition, I have already rented a car in Montenegro 2 times, in Denmark and Cyprus, I will soon fly to Greece.
I have an old laminated license and an IDL (International Driving Permit) (here in this video I talk about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufYpiI-BVqU). In almost all European countries, the old Ukrainian laminated rights are enough for driving your own car and for renting a car. Exceptions are possible in Italy and France (when renting a car, an IDL is often required). Moreover, the new plastic rights are not an IDP. IDP must be with a gray book.
2. In Montenegro, I rented a car and presented laminated rights to the police. No problem. If you are going to rent a car in Montenegro, I recommend reading my detailed guide to car rental in this country: http://www.alexzimin.com/arenda-avto-v-chernogorii.html
I have an old laminated license and an IDL (International Driving Permit) (here in this video I talk about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufYpiI-BVqU). In almost all European countries, the old Ukrainian laminated rights are enough for driving your own car and for renting a car. Exceptions are possible in Italy and France (when renting a car, an IDL is often required). Moreover, the new plastic rights are not an IDP. IDP must be with a gray book.
2. In Montenegro, I rented a car and presented laminated rights to the police. No problem. If you are going to rent a car in Montenegro, I recommend reading my detailed guide to car rental in this country: http://www.alexzimin.com/arenda-avto-v-chernogorii.html
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answered 7 years ago
Regarding the "divorce" and the IDP. No, this is not a divorce. I have been using it for over 4 years now. There was one for 3 years, recently made a new one for 5 years. It's just that the name of this document is not quite right. In fact, this is a licensed translation of a driver's license into 12 languages, with additional information about the color of the eyes, the height of the driver. For most European countries, this is not necessary. But in the east and in the countries of Southeast Asia (in Dubai, for example), without this "gray booklet" in the rental office, they simply will not give you a car, even if you pre-paid via the Internet.
Now you can already get a similar IDL officially at the service centers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. They do it in half an hour, it costs a penny. And it also does not work without the main driver's license. But the quality is worse than American IDPs. In Dubai they say they are accepted, but in Sri Lanka you will have to get a local permit.
As for plastic, it is essentially no different from laminated rights, it does not provide any advantages.
Now you can already get a similar IDL officially at the service centers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. They do it in half an hour, it costs a penny. And it also does not work without the main driver's license. But the quality is worse than American IDPs. In Dubai they say they are accepted, but in Sri Lanka you will have to get a local permit.
As for plastic, it is essentially no different from laminated rights, it does not provide any advantages.
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answered 7 years ago
I changed Ukrainian rights to Polish ones (plastic). I asked the Poles about the IDP (because a colleague from Russia has an IDP), but they have no idea what it is. They drive with their Polish rights all over the world without additional books without any problems. Therefore, I think IDPs are required by those countries that "stream" Ukrainian (and Russian) rights, but in principle they are not needed for citizens of other countries.
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answered 7 years ago
kolyan_cat I can't say anything about a Polish driver's license. But I guarantee that according to Ukrainian and Russian plastic rights in the Emirates, a car will not be given in a rental office. Only IDP (gray little book on several pages). In Europe it’s easier, but in some countries they can also find fault, you need to carefully read the conditions when booking a car, sometimes they say in plain text that you need to have a credit card and an IDL
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answered 7 years ago
In Sri Lanka, the IDP that I talked about above (like mine) works. I was stopped by the police 2 times to check documents, I showed them this IDP, showed that Sri Lanka was on the list of countries, they bowed and wished a good trip. But the owners of the official Russian IDP have to make a local permit for renting a car. I don’t know exactly in Ukrainian, but I think the same
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answered 7 years ago
AlexZimin, tell me, where did you apply for your IDP? I asked at our service centers, they first demand to change laminated to plastic
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answered 4 years ago