EU travel question

With my UK passport and my husband and children's US passports with ILR visas, how do we travel in Europe? I believe that I can, with the British passport travel in and out of EU countries whenever I like, but what about my family?

I would think it would just be the same as traveling in the EU if you guys lived in America- the US passport negates the need for visas to most of those countries if you're just going for touristy holiday purposes.  And...I do remember seeing something on another website to the effect that UK ILR doesn't give non EU citizens special privileges (I'm officially an immigration nerd- I admit it!)

I would think it would just be the same as traveling in the EU if you guys lived in America- the US passport negates the need for visas to most of those countries if you're just going for touristy holiday purposes.  And...I do remember seeing something on another website to the effect that UK ILR doesn't give non EU citizens special privileges (I'm officially an immigration nerd- I admit it!)

What she said.  Americans can travel to the European countries not requiring visas for us to enter...but you have to go through the non-EU immigration line (if there are lines, like in airports).

Though my husband did try to wind me up once when he surprised me with a trip to Antwerp (before I knew better), and told me that he was 'smuggling me into Belgium' on the train from Amsterdam 'cause I needed a visa to go into Belgium.  And of course, it was all b*ll*cks.

That's funny.

As long as you don't need a visa to get in to a country like Russia you can travel all around.........like we went to Venice.......no problem....hubby went thru eu line and we had to go thru the non eu line.........

You'll most likely be checked going from Britain into France, The Netherlands, or wherever you first arrive in Continental Europe.    If you take your car into France by the Channel Tunnel, for example, you'll be checked by a French official before you actually board the train in England!

Once on the Continent though, there a lot of border posts between EU countries which are now almost ghost towns, and the chances are you'll just drive through without anybody even seeing you. 

By the way, I got a good telling-off by a grouchy passport inspector some years ago when arriving back in London from the U.S. and I went through the wrong line.   

That was just after the relaxation of the European borders with the "Single Market" in 1992.   The signs had all been changed and there were just two sections marked for  "EU Passport holders" and "All other passport holders."       I was still on my old traditional-style British passport at that time, not a new European one, so I went to the "All other" line.    Apparently we were just supposed to know that "EU Passports" actually means "EU and British passports."