liquids through security airport

davetrousers

jay213 wrote: »

Okay let me see if I’ve got this right

• You can only take liquids up to 100ml in your hand luggage sealed in a clear plastic bag.

• You can pack liquids bigger than 100ml in your hold luggage and you don’t have to worry about packing them in a clear bag.

Basically I’m just wondering if I can take my sun creams, after sun, showers gels, gels, repellents, aftershaves etc, which are all over the 100ml size.

Can I put all the bigger than 100ml liquids in my hold luggage?
Can I get the clear plastic bag you use at the airport?

Yup you've got it.

I find it easier to to pack any liquids in my hand baggage now as a result.

You can buy liquids AFTER the security checks, that is ok.

buckrogers

jay213 wrote: »

You can pack liquids bigger than 100ml in your hold luggage and you don’t have to worry about packing them in a clear bag.
Basically I’m just wondering if I can take my sun creams, after sun, showers gels, gels, repellents, aftershaves etc, which are all over the 100ml size.

Can I put all the bigger than 100ml liquids in my hold luggage?
Can I get the clear plastic bag you use at the airport?

Hi, we still packed liquids over 100ml in plastic bags in our hold luggage which we are glad we did as some opened and spilled , so it never got anything else stained.

Bottle drinking water was not allowed pass security check point,
then cost us £1.50 a bottle the other side,as flight delayed hour, what a rip off :-)

Madmel

Inhalors are fine as long as they are in the plastic bag. I too have inadvertently taken things through in my normal bag which weren't picked up by a scanner in the UK. It was only a tiny metal tub of lip balm (10g) but it makes you wonder.

We normally pack all suncreams in hold luggage (in plastic bags to avoid spills!) You can get the plastic bags at the airport, last time we paid £1 for 2 which was a complete rip-off.

In the US 2 years ago we were travelling back with DH who had been seriously ill out there (1 week in ICU another in normal ward, full story is on travel insurance thread). The hospital had trained me to change his dressings and we had lots of dressings, surgical tape and filtered water for wound cleaning to bring through to fly home. We managed to get the hospital to give us some 100ml tubes of water and the US people were very happy for us to take all this. We also jumped all the queues (one advantage to accompanying a wheelchair passenger ). The only thing they quibbled was the size of the bags that check-in had given us, apparently they weren't quite the right size. All the stress of the previous couple of weeks must have told on my face as the extremely scary-looking security guard took pity on me and handed over a large handful of the bags. If only I could now find the bloomin' things....

jay213

davetrousers wrote: »

Yup you've got it.

I find it easier to to pack any liquids in my hand baggage now as a result.

You can buy liquids AFTER the security checks, that is ok.

ok thanks.

So I would have no problem getting on the plane with 200ml, 300ml or even 500ml liquids as long as it is stored in my hold luggage? (that I packed at home)

Im just trying to be sure about this point before I pack them all and they make me chuck them away.

Wammer

The only restriction is on HAND luggage not HOLD luggage. You can put any amount of liquids in your hold luggage.

If you are going to have liquids in your hand luggage, under 100ml obviously, any ziplock freezer bag of the correct dimensions will do, it doesn't have to be one given out by the airport. The bag has to be no more than 20cm (8") x 20cm and I have read that Tesco do freezer bags of this size.

buckrogers

Wammer wrote: »

If you are going to have liquids in your hand luggage, under 100ml obviously, any ziplock freezer bag of the correct dimensions will do, it doesn't have to be one given out by the airport. The bag has to be no more than 20cm (8") x 20cm and I have read that Tesco do freezer bags of this size.

What we used and a lot cheaper :-)

ferf1223

we use Sainsburys versions of the plastic bags at home so always have plenty on hand...waiting to buy them at the airport is not a very MSE idea.

like others we also pack all of our larger liquids in large zippered bags to avoid the annoyance of leakage all over our clothes.

lorweld

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