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Moonie
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PostPosted: 10:54 - 16 Apr 2009    Post subject: taking fags back from abroad. Reply with quote

I´m in Mallorca, and the fags here are really cheap. Does anyone know how many I can legally take back duty free? Or how many I am likely to get away with?

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PostPosted: 10:59 - 16 Apr 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Depends if you get caught tbh you are supposed to be allowed to take as much as you want but remember the government wants to protect its tax revenue at all costs.

On return of my Spanish trip there was this guy who had one of those big square sports bags stuffed full of cartons, disembarking off the ferry I saw his car was utterly stuffed with these sports bags as I cruised next to him on the A38.

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Customs and excise publish guidelines of what can be considered reasonable which are (per person):



Wine and/or champagne: 90 litres


Beer: 100 litres


Spirits: 10 litres


These are guidelines only. If you bring back more, 'you must be able to prove that it is for personal use.' The guidelines per person for tobacco are: 3200 cigarettes or 400 cigarillos or 200 cigars or 3 kg of smoking tobacco.


Enough for a decent weekend party me thinks Mr. Green
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PostPosted: 11:01 - 16 Apr 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

As said, its 3200. If more you need to prove the're for personal use.

One chance in thousands that you'll get stopped at customs anyway, especially coming from Spain.
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PostPosted: 12:29 - 16 Apr 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

So they wouldn´t stop me when I put my bag through the X-ray?

It´s a lastminute.com holiday so it´s hand luggage only, I was only thinking of bringing back about 160 lol.
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PostPosted: 12:36 - 16 Apr 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

160 isn't even a carton is it? thought they were 200s.
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PostPosted: 13:25 - 16 Apr 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

t121anf wrote:
160 isn't even a carton is it? thought they were 200s.


yea come in cartons of 200,
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PostPosted: 14:46 - 16 Apr 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Moonie wrote:
So they wouldn´t stop me when I put my bag through the X-ray?

It´s a lastminute.com holiday so it´s hand luggage only, I was only thinking of bringing back about 160 lol.

stuff yer sack man.

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PostPosted: 17:22 - 16 Apr 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

You wouldn't be stopped going through the x-ray, that bit is run by airport security. If you were going to be stopped it would be coming back through UK customs at the airport - customs is the bit you just walk through, having shown your passport to immigration.

You can get offensively cheap fags there. I was in Tenerife in Jan, and I bought a carton of fags for €4.90, just because I could.
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PostPosted: 17:34 - 16 Apr 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

In the good old days before the ound dropped out of it's own arse we used to bring back about 30kg of baccy and about 20,000 fags between 4 of us Laughing

Did get stopped once and got some of it of confiscated though.
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PostPosted: 17:47 - 16 Apr 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

OK sounds all cool, just as long as I´m nto going to end up in a cell with manuel having a rubber glove inserted into orifices Laughing

160 isn´t a carton, but I can´t really fit one, they have 8 packs for 8 euros 80 cents where we are.

BTW, typing when drunk is difficult Laughing
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PostPosted: 18:20 - 16 Apr 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can't believe you are even logged online when you have such a beautiful place at your finger tips...I don't think I logged on here once whilst I was away travelling...!!!

Cue some nosey person to go snooping through my posts between October 2005 - July 2006 Laughing
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PostPosted: 21:51 - 16 Apr 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thats no way to talk about homosexuals
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PostPosted: 12:43 - 17 Apr 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Clanger wrote:
I can't believe you are even logged online when you have such a beautiful place at your finger tips...I don't think I logged on here once whilst I was away travelling...!!!

Cue some nosey person to go snooping through my posts between October 2005 - July 2006 Laughing


Ever been to an all inclusive resort?

It doesn´t include much to do Laughing

I´m on here looking for stuff to do whilst here, plus I have tinterweb in my room.
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