Confiscated Duty Free Liquid At Swampy

[outofoz]

The last 3 times i have exited Suvarnabhumi to Sydney (in the last 10 months), I have seen people have their recently bought duty free alcohol confiscated at the final boarding gate ramp..

someone even had their duty free perfume (presumably over 100mls) confiscated!

Is this something that only happens flying to Australia or is it other countries also?

With so many duty free shops at the airport, selling so many over 100ml sized containers...

[Naam]

nothing is confiscated if items were bought duty free at Suvarnabhumi and kept in the sealed bags the shops provide.

[outofoz]

nothing is confiscated if items were bought duty free at Suvarnabhumi and kept in the sealed bags the shops provide.

That doesnt seem to be the case..I cant attest to whether the bags were still sealed 100%...however the bottles I saw confiscated were all in the duty free bag provided and the last customs guy I heard telling the person he confiscated it off, that they couldnt carry any liquids onboard over 100mls..and that was Australias rules, not Thailands.??

Adding of course... that I have only seen this 3 times, in the limited 5 minutes a time I am at the gate.. presuming there is half an hour or so of people going through there must be quit ea bit confiscated..

[supaprik]

The USA and Australia are the same NO LIQUIDS CARRY ON over 100ml and in sealed packaging, next time you go through "swampy" try to buy a bottle of alcohol, they are required NOT to sell it as it is 100% confiscated, you do not need to trust me TRY IT, some times at airport gates it is confusing as some planes maybe have stop overs such as Singapore, Jakarta etc, people that are disembarking in those cities can take fluids on board so at times it seems very strange but again as I say 100% of ALL USA and Australian flights you cannot....If you want to take back booze to Aust just buy it at a supermarket here then stow it in your checked luggage, I do this and never a problem and actually the price you pay in say BIG C is sometimes cheaper than duty free at swampy

Edited September 25, 2011 by supaprik

[xen]

If you want duty free booze when you return to Oz they force you to buy just before you go thru Custums at arrivals or at least Sydney airport. Nice cozy arrangement for the monoply duty free at Sydney airport.

[aussiep]

If you want duty free booze when you return to Oz they force you to buy just before you go thru Custums at arrivals or at least Sydney airport. Nice cozy arrangement for the monoply duty free at Sydney airport.

This is true, the part that stinks is when you go through the bag scanners before they moved them to just after immergation they would not tell you "you can't take this on board".

But catch you later just before the boarding area when it's too late to go back to get a refund.

They stole a small bottle of chillie sauce off me a few years ago.

Also heard there was a scam with Sydney duty Free.

aussiep

[bangkokburning]

YUP

USA sure

how much you want to bet alcohol lobby had more to do with this than security.

[namoi]

at least they told me when i asked if it was ok, no you have to buy it at the other end if travelling to Aus, which was BNE for me

[IMA_FARANG]

The rule prohibiting any liqueds over 100ml in volume is an international security rule.

If you transit through Narita you will find the Japanese following that same procedure...at least on flights transiting or originating in Japan to the U.S.

Some airports may allow duty free purchases to be sealed by the shop that sells it and carried that way...but that is the security policy of that airport only.

But almost always, if it is sealed, and you open it before you board the airplane...it will be confiscated.

[Chivas]

The rule prohibiting any liqueds over 100ml in volume is an international security rule.

If you transit through Narita you will find the Japanese following that same procedure...at least on flights transiting or originating in Japan to the U.S.

Some airports may allow duty free purchases to be sealed by the shop that sells it and carried that way...but that is the security policy of that airport only.

But almost always, if it is sealed, and you open it before you board the airplane...it will be confiscated.

May well be the rules but clearly dont enforce it or care too much.

Unwittingly I had a 200ml bottle in my hand luggage couple weeks ago not picked up obviously on the Scanner, Swampy to London.

[jamescollister]

Same here, told not booze in hand luggage to OZ by the duty free shop. Nothing to do with the 100 mil liquid security thing. You can buy the booze going the other way. Think it's all about duty free in OZ is dearer than in the super market and the airport shops are going broke. Or the Australian Government can't trust it's citizens not to get plastered on the plane. The nanny state has to take care of it's wayward children. Jim

[infernalman7]

King Power asked for the destination and didn't sell me the eau de toilette I wanted. Yep, Australia's surely one of them.

[RAM8]

Thanks for the advice.

[bangkokbruce]

It's because the customs agents bottle in his trunk was getting low and he was ready for a new one, plus a few more to pass around for good gestures to his friends and co-workers.

[daiwill60]

Last Friday night I flew from Kohn KAen to Swampee with my daughter who was returnung to the UK. I flew down with an Aerosol of deodorant, toothpaste and a bottle of Shower Gel, as i had done two weeks previously, when I went to meet her at Swampy before returning to Isaan via Kohn Kaen.

Only this time on my return to Khon Kaen, my bag went through the scanner prior to boarding plane to Khon Kaen, and I was called over to one side and told that the Shower Gel and Deodorant were not allowed to be carried on board. I explained that this was not the case when i flew into BKK the day before or when i flew through there to and from BKK two weeks previously, but no notice was taken of this . My toothpaste was not even looked at on this occasion and i was allowed to keep that. So my only conclusion is that the person doing the checking was being a bit of a jobsworth just for the sake of it, or she was having personal body odour problems, that quickly needed to be sorted out, as the floods had probably washed everything out of her bathroom in her house on the outskirts of Bangkok, bless her !!!!

Edited November 2, 2011 by daiwill60

[condohope]

nothing is confiscated if items were bought duty free at Suvarnabhumi and kept in the sealed bags the shops provide.

I departed Swampy Nov 15th to Perth and could not buy liquor at any of the duty free places, the only explanation given was the destination Australia does not allow this but no reason why. On the way back duty free Perth was willing to sell any amount of liquor to me but I declined for the prices were laughable three times what you have to pay when arriving in BKK and using the duty free for arrivals.

I have traveled to Australia about 10 times and found it is becoming more like the USA immigration- and customs wise. Perth arrival was horror and would justify a new forum and being boycotted.

[4evermaat]

The USA and Australia are the same NO LIQUIDS CARRY ON over 100ml and in sealed packaging, next time you go through "swampy" try to buy a bottle of alcohol, they are required NOT to sell it as it is 100% confiscated, you do not need to trust me TRY IT, some times at airport gates it is confusing as some planes maybe have stop overs such as Singapore, Jakarta etc, people that are disembarking in those cities can take fluids on board so at times it seems very strange but again as I say 100% of ALL USA and Australian flights you cannot....If you want to take back booze to Aust just buy it at a supermarket here then stow it in your checked luggage, I do this and never a problem and actually the price you pay in say BIG C is sometimes cheaper than duty free at swampy

Years ago when I flew out from Jamaica, I purchased some white rum at the duty-free airport shops. There was a connecting flight in miami, which required that you re-enter security. I got busted there. There was no problem entering the USA. Just when I was re-boarding (security)

Ironically, they did give you the opportunity to stuff it into the check-in bag as you pass through customs, but I did not think to do it as I was already told it would be ok.

[Thailaw]

nothing is confiscated if items were bought duty free at Suvarnabhumi and kept in the sealed bags the shops provide.

I departed Swampy Nov 15th to Perth and could not buy liquor at any of the duty free places, the only explanation given was the destination Australia does not allow this but no reason why. On the way back duty free Perth was willing to sell any amount of liquor to me but I declined for the prices were laughable three times what you have to pay when arriving in BKK and using the duty free for arrivals.

I have traveled to Australia about 10 times and found it is becoming more like the USA immigration- and customs wise. Perth arrival was horror and would justify a new forum and being boycotted.

From the Australian Customs' web site:

"Alcohol

If you are aged 18 years or over, you can bring 2.25

litres of alcohol duty-free into Australia with you.

All alcohol in accompanied baggage is included in

this category, regardless of where or how it was

purchased.".

Someone is confused.

[moe666]

I buy in taipai on the way to the states never a problem. I liter

[Shurup]

The rules are: if you have any connecting flights, you can't hand carry any liquids over 100ml. Only before the last flight you can buy what you want but apparently Australia and US made an exception to this rule.

I don't buy at duty free, it's aint much cheaper than the Big C or Tesco and I can stuff what I want in my check in bag.

[KhunG]

YUP

USA sure

how much you want to bet alcohol lobby had more to do with this than security.

Why would the alcohol lobby care? Duty free means free from taxes, not less money to the alcohol companies.

[SirDougless]

nothing is confiscated if items were bought duty free at Suvarnabhumi and kept in the sealed bags the shops provide.

I departed Swampy Nov 15th to Perth and could not buy liquor at any of the duty free places, the only explanation given was the destination Australia does not allow this but no reason why. On the way back duty free Perth was willing to sell any amount of liquor to me but I declined for the prices were laughable three times what you have to pay when arriving in BKK and using the duty free for arrivals.

I have traveled to Australia about 10 times and found it is becoming more like the USA immigration- and customs wise. Perth arrival was horror and would justify a new forum and being boycotted.

From the Australian Customs' web site:

"Alcohol

If you are aged 18 years or over, you can bring 2.25

litres of alcohol duty-free into Australia with you.

All alcohol in accompanied baggage is included in

this category, regardless of where or how it was

purchased.".

Someone is confused.

No one is confused as the restrictions have nothing to do with Customs, duty free allowances or Swampy. They are anti-terrorist measures used by the US & Australian governments for the last 5 years. The airlines are required to enforce them. Australian airport security is 'trusted' such that you can pickup duty free goods after clearing customs. Other airports are not, thus when travelling to Australia you have to be searched at the gate. Methods vary - Phuket searches you on boarding at the jet bridge, Manila searches you before entry to the gate lounge. They are just ensuring that you have no liquids in containers over 100mls. Very inconvenient and in the case of some airports, very ineffective.

[sawadeeken]

This goes way back (before 100 cl rule) (maybe 15 years ago). I travelled to Thailand often. A friend, a somewhat insecure old Thai lady, always liked to plan trips according to my schedule so I could assist her. Because I was 'so nice', her niece who lived here and was a Thai Customs Agent invited me to dinner at her apartment where the old lady was staying with her (which was gov't housing) and after dinner she pushed a small 'Liquor Cart' up to the table to offer me a drink........... The 'Cart' had 10 to 15 bottles of all the best and exotic brands on it. Without saying anything about it - I knew how she had such an expensive collection (as mostly 'customs' people might have)......... Got the picture ?????

[aussiep]

In the last month I seem to remember a news flash about a relaxiation of the 100ml liquid rule from OZ airports.

Think it starts in the new year. there must be a web site that has this info.

aussiep

Edited December 26, 2011 by aussiep

[bubba]

I was once on the TG BKK-LAX nonstop flight, where they were searching all carryons for liquids at the gate. If they did find any non-allowable liquids, they were nice enough to put them in a box and check them through to LAX rather than confiscate and dispose of them.

[BookMan]

In the last month I seem to remember a news flash about a relaxiation of the 100ml liquid rule from OZ airports.

Think it starts in the new year. there must be a web site that has this info.

aussiep

I remember hearing something similar

[Chivas]

It's because the customs agents bottle in his trunk was getting low and he was ready for a new one, plus a few more to pass around for good gestures to his friends and co-workers.

Whats this supposed to mean ??

[rocketmanbkk]

Sort of correct, If purchaased perfume an dit was sealed and checks at security gate, all OK.

I also had a bottle of water, purchased in the shops after passport control, i had a couple of mouthfuls and as it was opened security before the boarding gate wouldn't let me through. They knew where I got it but they said, 'cannot as opened!!'

Nothing is confiscated, perfume, booze etc. if purchased duty free, no way no how, if it is then someone has been scammed and all of duty free liquids will disappear as they cannot be sold!

nothing is confiscated if items were bought duty free at Suvarnabhumi and kept in the sealed bags the shops provide.

[pgs]

Oz bound can buy in Changi - they will give it to you AS YOU BOARD.

Last year's trip from BKK it was still "can't take it from here" with sealed airport bought water being refused at the final bag check.

I aso heard the rules were to change, just not sure ot a start date for it.

The go'vt site hasn't been updated for it yet:

http://travelsecure....utyfree_to.aspx

DO:

Purchase duty free at your last airport before Australia, but make sure it is delivered to the boarding gate, and that you are not transiting through another Australian airport before reaching your final destination.

Check with your airline to find out if you will be transiting in Australia.

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Australia applies restrictions for flights both to and from Australia. Australia requires airlines to put in place procedures at overseas airports for flights to Australia, to ensure that passengers do not have liquids, aerosols and gels in their carry-on baggage in excess of the restrictions. In general, the only liquids, aerosols and gels that are allowed in a passenger's carry-on baggage are:

• liquids, aerosols and gels in containers of 100 millilitres or less, in one resealable bag. The four sides of the resealable area should not add up to more than 80 cm (e.g. 20x20 cm or 15x25 cm);
  
• duty free liquids, aersols and gels purchased at the airport and delivered to the boarding gate for the passenger. No other duty free will be permitted (e.g. duty free purchased at Heathrow will not be permitted through Singapore); and
  
• liquid, aerosol or gel products supplied to the passenger onboard the aircraft after departure for Australia (e.g. cans of drink supplied in-flight or duty free purchased on board the aircraft).
  

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Buy your booze in town (where it's often cheaper then DF), put it in your check in bag & remember to declare it.

Edited February 1, 2012 by pgs

[Cobalt60]

Would I prefer tight security, or to be blown out of the sky at 30,000 feet hmmm let me think !!!!! Nah don't need a drink that much.