But the students and their chaperones became stuck in the US after the lodge destroyed their passports.

“Unfortunately, the hotel managed to destroy the passports in their care, which has led to all those affected having to apply for emergency travel documents,” Barr Beacon School principal Katie Hibbs told the BBC at the time.

It’s not clear how the lodge managed to destroy the passports, or why it had them in the first place. The lodge did not respond to Insider’s requests for comment.