You can take 4l of spirits into the UK but only bring 1l into Ireland
Surprise surprise.
It was clever advertising from him tbf.
Highly recommend this wine out of Aldi. it was 9.99 as far as I remember before MUP so it didnt go up. 15% though. Its a strong red wine; you'll definitely know its wine, but its absolutely excellent. Ive converted a few people that have had a glass of it.
https://groceries.aldi.ie/en-GB/ALDIIE/p-italian-zinfandel-750ml-grande-alberone/8024209007822
Wine that you'll definitely know is wine - high praise 😂
Must give it a go.
Also recommend this myself. Good value for a nice wine.
https://groceries.aldi.ie/en-GB/p-negroamaro-primitivo-puglia-edizione-limitata-2020-75cl-castellore/4088600404660
What's the guv'nor wine from tesco like anyone?it's reduced sometimes from 12 to 8,think i read good reviews on it somewhere?.
I second that recommendation. That's one I regularly purchase - bargain for €10. Supply is hit 'n' miss in my local Aldi though.
Clever packaging. Making it look a proper bottle of wine. Amerone.
As a Guinness drinker I just did a quick calculation.
Appreciate if someone can go over my math's
https://www.tesco.ie/groceries/Product/Details/?id=250632917 so 3.75 a litre
https://groceries.asda.com/product/stout/guinness-draught-stout-beer/910002155288 2.27 sterling a Litre or 2.72 Euro a litre.
It takes around 35 Euro diesel for me to get from Mayo to Enniskillen.
Now this is where my math's fall down. How many Nordie Guinness do I need to buy to make it worthwhile travelling North.
At roughly a €1 a litre difference you need to purchase in excess of 35 litres I.e that’s 2 x 500ml cans to make up a litre….. 70 cans or if it’s 440ml cans you need to buy 80 cans.
If you go that far, fill the boot. And the back seats.
And bring a trailer, dog box, roof rack…. Anything, any space fill it. You will enjoy the sound of those widgets rattling away on the trip home.
Amazon is not the seller for any of the irish whiskies i checked though - it's third parties, with ewhisky being the best on price and delivery. so I wouldn't be convinced that they will have the customs sorted prior to shipping. buyer beware....
It depends how you define worthwhile.
As amber2 said, you need 70 cans just to balance the costs - but that means you're not getting any benefit from driving up North.
If you want that trip to save you 10% on your Guinness, you need to buy 107 cans. To save 20%, 250 cans. For 25%, 757 cans.
(I'm assuming that's for the round trip you burn 35 euro diesel.)
You'd be hard pushed to save on Guinness up North, it's more on lager or craft beers etc
Anyone on the ferries? , wonder what deals if any to be had.
On Stena £13 for 24 330ml cans of Heineken, 1 litre of Absolut for £10, more deals here...
https://www.mypaper.se/html5/customer/91/13308/?page=46
Cheap day return to Holyhead like the good old days.
Hardly worth it just for the cheap booze due to the very low duty-free allowances.
Would they be checking boots of cars really? I'd understand small vans and if someone had the back seat full etc. You'd probably get away with slabs in the boots if kids were in the car.
You won't get a car included on the cheap day return.
Right, as promised an update. The slabs arrived today. No issues at all. Well packaged and they threw in a shot bottle of some sort of german alcopop. Ordered the 9th, delivered this afternoon. Very good communications along the way. Sent an email update each time the package reached the different destinations
If it's like the old days, you won't be able to buy more on the boat than your duty-free allowance permits. You used to have to show your boarding card, which would be stamped to signal that you'd used it.
I was always genuinely unsure why they did this, I'd have thought it was a 'none of our business, turn a blind eye' thing.
It's not, was on ferry a few months ago. They didn't restrict your purchase at all.
Bring missus, get her to drive to Dublin port, get on boat u drink, buy her perfume or something to keep her happy, off at Hollyhead for a hour, nearest cheap offo, back on boat, duty free, get locked on way back and missus drives home when back in Dublin. Happy days!😂
The limit coming in to Ireland from UK is the same whether you buy it on the boat or a cheap off licence in Holyhead.
In the early 90s I was able to collect multiple ferry boarding cards and buy lots of spirits with them. I think the difference was you were still coming from the UK and limit were effectively still huge. I think people without multiple boarding cards could have bought in Wales and brought spirits back all above board. I do know there was zero fear of being "caught" or having to hide anything.
How much did you actually buy? you say no restriction, do you reckon you could have got 50 (or indeed 1000) litres of vodka at the lowest price?
I see limits of 4L going to the UK and 1L coming back. I am not sure if that means you can get 5L going the UK and back duty free.
Some might see that amount as "no restriction", I just want to be clear as it would certainly not be worth a lot of peoples time & effort if that was the case.
We were talking to the lady in the shop on the boat and she told us that the staff will sell you whatever you want to buy as it is not their job to limit your purchases. It is well signed in the store what the legal limit is for tobacco and alcohol from UK to Ireland. Customs did a cursory check of out car coming in to Ireland including asking us to open the boot so they could have a look. They did not look in our bags or cases.
I take it this was not duty free then? like in the early 90s I could have gone into an offie in wales and bought 1000litres of vodka no bother, and possibly got it back through on the boat, legal or not. But I take it there are still limits on the amount of spirits you can buy on the boat at duty free prices (possibly no limits on paying on full price), people reading your previous post might pick it up to mean that (though I doubt that is what you meant, I just want others to be clear).
I do remember late 80's and early 90's doing foot passenger journeys to UK and the ferries limited you to a strict quota as per your boarding card, you couldn't buy more than this unless you somehow 'obtained' someone's boarding card that they were not intending to purchase duty free with. Unsure whether this rule was driven by Irish government or by the ferry company. None of the ferries running the route now are registered in Irish ports so Irish government likely have no say in the matter either way.
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