Duty free question

Tabnabs

Ok, not a travel question per say but frequent travels will hopefully be able to answer this for me.

I am flying to Norway next month and want to buy duty free booze in Dublin. But we are transiting once we arrive in Norway (so an international outside EU flight and then an internal flight). Will we have problems with taking liquid (a bottle of whiskey) through customs and/or security at the intermediate airport? I know we had a bit of trouble with perfume when travelling via london a few years ago. Any one know the ins and outs of duty free and transiting?

Gran Hermano

Dyflin wrote: »

Ok, not a travel question per say but frequent travels will hopefully be able to answer this for me.

I am flying to Norway next month and want to buy duty free booze in Dublin. But we are transiting once we arrive in Norway (so an international outside EU flight and then an internal flight). Will we have problems with taking liquid (a bottle of whiskey) through customs and/or security at the intermediate airport? I know we had a bit of trouble with perfume when travelling via london a few years ago. Any one know the ins and outs of duty free and transiting?

Make sure the bottle is sealed in an "International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) sealed, tamper-evident bag" by the cashier when you purchase it in Dublin airport.

http://www.megafortris.com/cp/Portals/13/Datasheets09/TEBags-ICAO.pdf

enzo7

We were made check in our handluggage in heathrow because they wouldnt let us take our vodka through security. We were flying from kuala lumpur via london to dublin. We had ours sealed in the special security bag also didnt make a diffrence. Think it depends who you meet in security really.

Gran Hermano

enzo7 wrote: »

We were made check in our handluggage in heathrow because they wouldnt let us take our vodka through security. We were flying from kuala lumpur via london to dublin. We had ours sealed in the special security bag also didnt make a diffrence. Think it depends who you meet in security really.

It depends on the security status of the airport you're starting in, purchases from most EU and American airports are fine once in the special bags.

GeturGun

enzo7 wrote: »

Think it depends who you meet in security really.

Agree with this. I came from Norway through Heathrow before with a bottle of something in one of those sealed bags and the pre-security guy (the ones handing out the little bags) said I would probably not be able to bring it through as Norway was not in the EU. He said to me to ask the guy at the belt. I put it on the belt, said nothing, yer man looked at the receipt on it, and off it went through.

I'd say once you have it in the bag you will be fine. I told them in the Duty Free in Norway that time that my final destination was Dublin and she packed it up for me - so I guess if they use those bags in Norway, they should accept them as well. (The airport was Stavanger)

enzo7

Gran Hermano wrote: »

It depends on the security status of the airport you're starting in, purchases from most EU and American airports are fine once in the special bags.

It happened to my aunt coming back from san fran last yr too thought, she was flying san fran-dublin-shannon. They wouldnt let her take it from dublin to shannon.

They did say to me in heathrow when i asked what was the point of the bags then that it was because i flew in from a non eu country. I didnt think norway was in the EU either. So i dunno i chance it anyway.

RATM

I had two bottles of vodka in a sealed bag that I brought from Sao Paulo last summer. I was stopped in transit in Gatwick and had them confiscated because they were from a 'dangerous country'.

Despite the fact they were in the sealed tamper proof bag and I had a receipt proving they were purchased in the previous 24hrs as per the rules the vodka was still confiscated.
Customs guys said that had I bought them in Singapore, Hong Kong and other western nations that the vodka would be considered 'safe'.

Very annoying tbh.