It's got to be an OZ thing. I've traveled around SE Asia quite a bit and never had a problem.

Never used the stuff.

I'm a Pom and have a reputation to uphold (Soap? What's that?).

>>Duty free in Thailand is a lot cheaper also but you are not allowed to take liquids onto the plane even though

you have gone through all the security checks and are in a secure area,

Sure you can take liquids on the plane.Simply buy from duty free and they will then put what you bought into a sealed duty free bag. Take a look at the HKT departure duty free and you'll see a queue of people buying duty free booze. I've also done this within the past month on a trip to Indonesia.

Unless they have changed the rules which i doubt, You cannot take duty free booze on the plane if travelling to Australia from Thailand

I have tried several times and been told you cannot by the duty free staff

If i could i would have saved a lot of money

Yep you can take liquids onto the plane as long as they are sealed in the proper bags.... just dont make the mistake like i did of cracking em open...I saw a few little hip flasks of wild turkeys for $5 a throw, being the bargain hunter i am, I bought 4, I was all ready slightly under the weather. i thought I would sneak a few shots with my coke's on the plane, I woke up about 20 mins out of singapore with a pretty evil headache and a tongue that felt like id been licking cats, i surveyed the scene and quickly disposed of the 3rd bottle down my gullet. I put the remaining bottle in my carry on bag. Singapore security are quite X-ray happy and I was busted pretty quickly joining my next flight, (even after carefully folding the bag so it looked like no-one had tampered with it)....they went troppo...but I think they gave me a bit of a break when they saw my bloodshot eyes and smelt my breath, my bottle was confiscated and I was allowed to continue on my hazy journey minus the last bottle of wild turkey

>>Duty free in Thailand is a lot cheaper also but you are not allowed to take liquids onto the plane even though

you have gone through all the security checks and are in a secure area,

Sure you can take liquids on the plane.Simply buy from duty free and they will then put what you bought into a sealed duty free bag. Take a look at the HKT departure duty free and you'll see a queue of people buying duty free booze. I've also done this within the past month on a trip to Indonesia.

Unless they have changed the rules which i doubt, You cannot take duty free booze on the plane if travelling to Australia from Thailand

I have tried several times and been told you cannot by the duty free staff

If i could i would have saved a lot of money

Yep you can take liquids onto the plane as long as they are sealed in the proper bags.... just dont make the mistake like i did of cracking em open...I saw a few little hip flasks of wild turkeys for $5 a throw, being the bargain hunter i am, I bought 4, I was all ready slightly under the weather. i thought I would sneak a few shots with my coke's on the plane, I woke up about 20 mins out of singapore with a pretty evil headache and a tongue that felt like id been licking cats, i surveyed the scene and quickly disposed of the 3rd bottle down my gullet. I put the remaining bottle in my carry on bag. Singapore security are quite X-ray happy and I was busted pretty quickly joining my next flight, (even after carefully folding the bag so it looked like no-one had tampered with it)....they went troppo...but I think they gave me a bit of a break when they saw my bloodshot eyes and smelt my breath, my bottle was confiscated and I was allowed to continue on my hazy journey minus the last bottle of wild turkey

Going via Singapore, i do not know, I know you can buy booze in Singapore and take it on the plane to Australia

Perth to anywhere no problem

Up to last year you could not take booze on a direct flight from Thailand to Perth WA

They used to ask me at duty free at both phuket and Bangkok airports where i was traveling to

and when i said Australia they told it was not allowed on the plane, and no one else had duty free booze either

hey snamos, thanks for the vodka! i hope you enjoyed your beer and that daeng gave you your cash!

That's a nice thing you're offering to do snamos.

Going via Singapore, i do not know, I know you can buy booze in Singapore and take it on the plane to Australia

Perth to anywhere no problem

Up to last year you could not take booze on a direct flight from Thailand to Perth WA

They used to ask me at duty free at both phuket and Bangkok airports where i was traveling to

and when i said Australia they told it was not allowed on the plane, and no one else had duty free booze either

sure you can...I travel direct and sometimes via singa's...i fly out of sydney, brisbane and perth...never a drama either way (except when I tampered with the bottles )

hey snamos, thanks for the vodka! i hope you enjoyed your beer and that daeng gave you your cash!

cash is there....will probably go to paying my bar bill

The rules must have changed, there is no way i would have paid $230 for a bottle of booze in

Perth duty free when i could have bought the same bottle in Bangkok duty free for $165 if i had

been allowed to take it on the plane

Its about 2 years since i took a direct flight, The booze was not for me but a present for my son,

When i gave it to him i told him not to drink it just sniff it.

It was a 700 ML bottle of Cognac/Brandy much to expensive for my tastes

You are 100 percent correct peter. im at phuket airport now and the nanny state has struck again... no bottles of any liquids on flights to australia. even if u buy em duty free after clearing immigration and customs... what a joke. any other destination in the world is ok. what next? the aussie government telling me what color roof i can have on my house?

but apparantly its ok from singapore... cant understand that logic at all. i think it might be because its a direct flight from thailand to aus.

but apparantly its ok from singapore... cant understand that logic at all. i think it might be because its a direct flight from thailand to aus.

There is no logic to it, Perth to Thailand you can take duty free booze on the plane

Thailand to Perth you cannot and duty free is busy in Perth

Singapore to Perth you can and Perth duty free is empty, much cheaper to buy in Singapore duty free and Thailand duty free

Perth duty free is a ripoff