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Just a query here, can someone clarify the new flight laws regarding liquids etc over 100 ml not being carried on board. Does this mean you can still pack shampoos and liquids etc over 100mls in your check in baggage. I also read that alcohol bought duty free could be confiscated if over 100mls . Makes it damn annoying if I have to buy heaps of minatures ha ha. I have never looked to see if Bali has bottle shops like Perth does? If there are any maybe it would be easier buying alcohol there and anyone know the cost of it compared to Oz thanks?.

As far as I know, you cannot keep liquid over 100 ml with you in a plane. There are no restrictions regarding registered laguages.
You can purchase alcohool in the duty free, but you cannot bring some bottle with you, if not purchase in the duty free.
Let me tell you a short story about other stuff not allowed in a plane. I was in September in London. The security guys took away my ligther. When I get in the duty free, I saw some lighter on sales. So i bought one.....So much for security....

Tink

I do not know about OZ but my understanding is that the 100ml is only to do with hand baggage. You can in Europe buy in the duty free and carry on board as far as I am aware.

Yes I have to agree the whole things is way out of hand. The World Trade Center hijackings have been used as an excuse for every would be fascist to inplement crazy laws that have no foundation in reality.

In Australia (and probably many other countries) tens of millions of dollars of tax payers' money is being used to fly "sky marshals" around on randomly selected flights. So far there hasn't been one incident that warranted their presence.

I had a small pen knife on my keyring confiscated before boarding a Singapore Airlines flight but in first class they served dinner with metal knives and forks. Stupid! The next time I went through airport security I foolishly wasted my breath to mention it and was met with the ubiquitous "just doing my job mate".

Hi Tinkerbelle

...I have never looked to see if Bali has bottle shops...

There are quite a few "bottle shops" these days in Bali, especially down south. Even in relatively quiet Sanur, I can think of at least ten (some attached to supermarkets plus three or four stand-alone ones). Those in supermarkets tend to charge way too much but the smaller "independents" are more or less reasonable.

It's been a few years since I was last in Perth so I don't know the current costs there. To give you a rough idea, good vodkas start at around Rp 130,00 (750ml bottles); 2L flagons of Lindeman's/de Bortolli's white/red wines , about Rp 145,000; Red Label Johnny Walker, Rp 142,000; and so on. There are also some wholesalers with "good prices", if you know where they are and can actually find them.

How does that sound?

I don’t know, how it’s handled in Australia, but as far as I know it’s an international agreement, there are some more specific rules for flights into the USA.

At least for flights from or into EU or the USA, all liquids, creams, shaving foam, whatever you will take on board in your hand luggage are limited on a max of 100ml each, these items have to be stored in a see-through plastic bag with a maximum of 1 litre, other liquids must be checked in.

For liquids bought in duty free shops, they are sealed and you are allowed to bring them on board, so to say the security check is provided by the duty free shops on airports, but then it’s getting absurd.

Example:
I’m allowed to buy a bottle of wine, booze, whatever on the airport in Bali, take the bottle with me on board, then get a connection flight in Singapore, take the same bottle on board again, land it Frankfurt and everything will be fine.
The same will be the other way around, but if I would come the way from Bali via Singapore to Frankfurt and would like to enter a connection flight to Zurich, then the bottle (from Bali) in Frankfurt will be confiscated!
The rule is, that only liquids sold by duty free shops within the EU can be brought out off the EU, or you can say, the bottle was safe enough to enter the EU, but not safe enough to leave the EU!

Last October, when the new regulations came up, a German news magazine made a test with an explosive expert from a German University, the matter was liquid bombs in planes, after the hype and chaos at Heathrow before.
The goal was to build a bomb, only with stuff bought in duty free shops at Frankfurt airport, the specialist built the bomb on the airport without any special equipment, later they took this bomb to an army training centre to test it, they have blown up a car with this bomb, documented by a TV team!

Check out specific regulation on the websites of the airports you will use, sometimes the regulations will differ!

Best regards
Thorsten

Hello Phil,
As I enjoy my spirits, and the alotment for bringing in Booze to Indo is 1 ltr. I have always brought in a little extra undercover,one liter isn't enough supply for a month long visit.So last year I happaned upon Toko Bali Jaya on Jl Raya Kuta. I was surprised to find the price of a 750ml bottle of Absolut (126,000rp) or about $13U.S. cheaper than here in the States at approx. $18U.S.,the same goes for Stoli or Smirnoff!! The stuff tasted like the real thing or am I dreaming?? I know you frequent the place on bypass,I've tried to find it but have failed! Is this place close to Pak Oles?? Your comments please! Doug

Its all stupid, if a terrorist wants to really blow up something , he will,,, there are a thousand diff. ways to get crap on a plan, gimme a break, I feel no safer... hell here in Texas we can carry guns ,,, that would make a nice shootout at 40 thousand feet in a pressurized cabin....they won with the N.Y. Towers ,, now we waste time and money on all kinds of crap,, but lets forget about the 30 million plus illegal aliens in our country, and more coming over everyday, they just walk right acsross....this world is getting more ignorant every day with stupid, petty little RULES!!!

Hi Tink

You can still purchase duty free booze - but only AFTER you've gone through security. There is a Downtown Duty Free shop on both sides at Perth airport, so the one on the inside after you've gone through customs is the one to buy from.

I'm sure an enterprising person will be opening up a liquor shop in arrivals real soon at Denpasar airport.

Hello dug

You can find more specific details about the exact location of PT Surya Indah, including a photograph in the Wine In Bali thread (Bali Expat Forum section).

Cheers!

Froggy, Yes I agree. To think that more rules and restriction will get us any safer is just nonsense. But I guess it`s a way to create a false feeling of security for those ignorant people whom does not want to see the world as for what it is. But the paradox is that all these efforts to get one step ahed of the "terrorists" is just spreading more fear, and as many knows, fear creates fear and will not lead to a positive change in the end.

FreoGirl wrote:Hi Tink

You can still purchase duty free booze - but only AFTER you've gone through security. There is a Downtown Duty Free shop on both sides at Perth airport, so the one on the inside after you've gone through customs is the one to buy from.

This kind of regulation applies also in Germany (or maybe EU countries as well?). This week I read a leaflet about it in Düsseldorf Airport. I wonder if it applies all over the world? The goods behind the security check points have been checked thoroughly. So they are safe, and people can buy things more than just 100 ml liquids up to a certain limit according to destination countries.

Thanks for the info peoples this is the plan buy the alcohol at the duty free shop after going through customs at Perth airport, bribe the Balinese airport staff to let me take it into Bali (jokes ha ha), than pass on the alcohol to a balinese mate of mine and hope he does not repeat what he did with the bottle of Sambucca I bought him at xmas drink the whole bottle and have 3 nights off of work ha ha being very ill!! If all else fails I will look for one of the bottle shops Sanurian talked about.

Many of the "security" rules are indeed stupid. For example, in the USA, one must present a valid "official" document, like a driver's license or some other picture ID, before being allowed to check-in one's luggage and get a boarding pass (I guess a terrorist cannot procure him/herself a driver's license ). At Ngurah Rai Int'l Airport, in Bali, there is a unique, some kind of "safety measure in-reverse," which to this day I still do not understand. Maybe somebody can give me a clue?

Following the passport control, one goes through a small door to access the room where one recuperates one's checked luggage. As most people do, I have a carry-on luggage with me, but right there, on the other side of this door, there is an x-ray inspection machine, and the carry-on must be scanned, before one is allowed to proceed to the carousels. Is this just in case I had bad intensions toward the taxi that will take me to my house?

Hi Phil,
Thanks for the info,got the picture!!
Doug

You can bring in as well alcohol in your hand luggage in liter bottles or else, if it's sealed in an Airport Duty Free Plastic Bag.

My fiancee and several visitors of mine did this successfully, coming via Singapore or Bangkok during the last few weeks.....