duty, customes etc...

LegacyUser

i'm heading away to egypt this week.

whats the deal with bringing stuff back, cigs etc..

how much are you aloud to bring back?

is it done by quantity or by how much you paid for em?

amazingemmet

In my experience as much as you can carry with out getting caught. your actual allowances are 200 cigs/ 50 cigarillos/ 200g tabacco, 2 ltrs spirits and 50g parfum or 200 eau du toilette and either €200 or €400 (can remember which) of other random goods.

Naos

See above.

When you arrive back, you can go through One of Two gates:

Something to Declare
Nothing to Declare

(Cant acually remmeber the names.. But thats the gist of them)

So it comes down to this, do you take the red pill or the blue pill?

Winters

I thin the blue one is the "Nothing To Declare" one.

You still see all the Irish people going through the other one as its "green".

Typical

Stephen

You're only sposed to go through the blue one if you're travelling from another EU state.

Winters

Tbh, everyone just goes through whatever one they want in Dublin anyway. Well, execpt the red one.

JackKelly

i've never seen anyone declaring anything, or infact, anyone being stopped ever in the airport. Although, im sure they are more warey when flights from eygpy america etc come in.
If your planning on buying clothes etc, just take the tags off and you can say your brough them out. Same with electrics.

LegacyUser

coolaboola

MooShop

you shouldnt have any problems, never got stopped or anything and when i was on hols in the canaries me and my friends brought a **** load of stuff back, our suitcases were filled with cigs and spirits and never had a problem

amazingemmet

You won't have trouble at all i reckon when the family and i went to andorra we had between me my mum and sis 36 ltrs of spirits all fancy one and about 1000 cigs each i think everyone else travelling with use had the same no one got caught.

side note: man andorra is so cheap i reccomend it to everyone

MooShop

amazingemmet wrote:

You won't have trouble at all i reckon when the family and i went to andorra we had between me my mum and sis 36 ltrs of spirits all fancy one and about 1000 cigs each i think everyone else travelling with use had the same no one got caught.

side note: man andorra is so cheap i reccomend it to everyone

is there much to do in andorra, considering its inland and has no coast or beaches or anything. whats the night life like?

amazingemmet

Its absolutely brilliant any time of year loads of cheap hotels, good skiing during the inter canoeing from spring til july as the snow melts, hiking hill walking during the summer. night life is good. all the hotels have pools and stuff so no need for the beach. you can buy what ever prescription drugs you want over the counter for next to nothing great if you've got asthma €6 an inhaler. all shopping is tax free so spirits are like €4 a bottle for bottles that are €25 here.

MooShop

that sounds class, must keep it in mind when im travelling, cheers

Piste

When we were coming back from Lanzarote, my sister had a toy gun she bought over there in her hand luggage, she was only 7 . When she passed her bag through the thingy, of course the gun showed up on the screen, the security guy grabbed the bag, whipped out the gun and realised it was fake. My parents nearly died of embarrassment!