New 'where to get duty-free on arrival' tool

Richy999_2

smigger15 wrote: »

Nothing happening for me, put my destination in and it did nothing ?? Only going to Alcudia, Majorca

I've used this site a bit. You need to put in either the name of the airport, (if you know it), in this case it's Palma, but you can just put in Spain if you don't; click Go and it brings up the airport(s). Select "Palma de Mallorca", (pretty obvious). There's a blue panel which opens in the middle giving some options, but after that you have to click the "Customs" icon, (the one on the left with with the hand on it), which immediately shows the information you're looking for. I hope that helps. Cheers. :rotfl:

jocknjimmy

Bob,

Cancun is Mexico's second biggest airprot with more tha 10 million passengers per year.

The reason for the lack of the inbound duty free shop is probably that the Mexican legislation allowing inbound shops is quite new. I would expect an inbound d-f shop at Cancun shortly

scotsbob wrote: »

Both are correct.

Mexico allows inbound travellers to buy duty free on arrival. However Cancun airport does not have a duty free shop for arrivals.

Most likely because Cancun is not a major airport. If you enter Benito Ju!rez, which is Mexicos major international airport, then you will see they do have an inbound duty free shop.

PolishBigSpender

Yet again, lazy journalism.

You cannot buy "duty-free" when travelling between two EU destinations, except in some very limited circumstances where the destination is outside of the EU's customs area.

Doshwaster

smigger15 wrote: »

Nothing happening for me, put my destination in and it did nothing ?? Only going to Alcudia, Majorca

I wouldn't worry about duty free on arrival in Mallorca. Spanish duty is pretty low anyway and there are loads of shops selling cheap booze, especially in the tourist areas.

jase.2

Looks like a bit of a waste of time to me......

It states you can buy dutyfree on arrival at Tenerife South Airport which is incorrect as you go no where near a duty free shop on arrival at that airport and even if you did it seemed more expensive to me last month (on my way home) then the local shops and the uk airport shops for cosmetics and fragrance. Didnt look at alchohol or cigarettes

John_Pierpoint

The Canary Islands are all a duty free zone anyway?

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]VAT is not applied in the Canary Islands; instead there is a specific Sales Tax (IGIC) which has a general rate of 5%[/FONT]
http://www.lowtax.net/lowtax/html/offon/spain/spncan.html

To be useful the tool needs to point out such information.

Similarly with Madrid airport - potentially save Spanish VAT but shopping in a retail outlet with high mark-ups.
That is like buying Hi Fi at Heathrow.

Richy999_2

dutyfreeonarrival wrote: »

Mexico has had DFOA for some years, the issue is quite simple, arrivals shopping is a new development and airports are not built to accommodate shops in the baggage halls, even if the law in that country says it can be done. Add to this we have had some difficulty persuading airports to give us proper and up-to-date info….so any observations from you, the travellers, is very helpful indeed. By all means send us your info on arrivals shopping and we can then check it, confirm it and update the website regularly.

Longer term, we think that searching for shops before you travel means less hassle and this converts to “money saving” it also helps you avoid the liquid security problems wherever possible.

Feel free to tell us about the good the bad and the ugly with regard to the website and we will listen to all this and try to update and improve as we go along. Thanks to all.

Hi. Just wondering why airports seem reluctant, (as you state), to provide you with up to date information. Surely this would be to everyone's advantage?

John_Pierpoint

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

The Canary Islands are all a duty free zone anyway?

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]VAT is not applied in the Canary Islands; instead there is a specific Sales Tax (IGIC) which has a general rate of 5%[/FONT]
http://www.lowtax.net/lowtax/html/offon/spain/spncan.html

To be useful the tool needs to point out such information.

Similarly with Madrid airport - potentially save Spanish VAT but shopping in a retail outlet with high mark-ups.
That is like buying Hi Fi at Heathrow.

I had a transfer at Madrid, on my way back to the UK during the volcano ash chaos, so I took a look at the Spanish booze prices and decided that 6 bottles of wine and a bottle of spirits were not much of an improvement on Lidl (or Tesco special offers) and a Calais warehouse might well be cheaper (as would a Spanish supermarket?) - so decided not to bother with any more hand baggage).

eamon

It doesn't get away from the fact that Duty Free shopping doesn't exist for travellers within the EU (though non EU citizens can claim the VAT back). Additionally when you can purchase Duty Free the amount that you can purchase is usually pretty small and probably more expensive than in the UK. I don't see the point unless its an emergency gift or you have landed somewhere even more expensive i.e. Norway or Finland.

Robin_P.

Hey, what a useful site: good to be able to check the rules and current situation in one place. Non-genuine 'Duty-Free' is often a rip-off and it's good to know one where you can buy the genuine article on arrival. I see that Ryanair is following its usual user-friendly habit of charging for a second piece of hand baggage, so buying on arrival will help all concerned, except - hopefully - Ryanair.