Booze in checked luggage

Doshwaster

joerugby wrote: »

Can you still get 1 litre bricks of don simon for 99 cents?

I think it may have just sneaked over the €1 mark but it's still just about the cheapest thing you can buy. It's not going to win any fine wine competitions but it's...err... wet.

I used to go through a lot of in on trips to Spain but I've now graduated onto slightly more expensive stuff.

s_b

Doshwaster wrote: »

I think it may have just sneaked over the €1 mark but it's still just about the cheapest thing you can buy. It's not going to win any fine wine competitions but it's...err... wet.

I used to go through a lot of in on trips to Spain but I've now graduated onto slightly more expensive stuff.

yes we pay at least €1.10 these days for wine too when there

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inflation eh

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jamsandwiches

Forget Don Simon - Lidl do a quite drinkable bottle of white Conde Noble for 69c :money:

wdyw

spacemanc wrote: »

Also dont those wine boxes contain a foil bag? The unpressurised hold may cause the bag to burst - hope you drink white wine!

You do realise that water (wine) is effectively incompressible - ie its volume doesn't vary with changes in pressure. (and theres is (or should be) no air in the wine bladder). For specific volumes of liquids, temperature is more important than pressure, but the temp in the cargo hold is going to make bu$$er all difference.

The pic of the bottle looks like the sort of deformation you get with a height change of about 1000-1500m (about 0.11bar....or take a flight from Denver down to LV).... which is not a million miles away from the pressure modern aircraft keeps the pressure at. Typically aircraft keep the pressure at altitude to the ISA equivalent of 1500-2000m. (0.85 - 0.8bar).

You have got a lot more chance of your bag of crisps bursting!

phatbear

Always make me chortle when people say about the pressure in the hold and the freezing temperatures! But consider where they put animals on planes, and you dont hear about them freezing to death or going POP!!!

ahall41116

has anyone considered OP might have used tesco vouchers or nectar points to purchase in the UK, thus saving on (what sounds like) very low spends when they get ther - who blames them? if it means they can still have a foreign holiday, they're doing better than I, who isnt.

Go for it, im sure you'll have no problems.

have a nice holiday

Ash

jackyann

Bless you, I hope you have a lovely holiday, and you must be very disciplined not to have drunk the wine sitting there already.

I too remember holidays where every penny counted. I would wrap the wine in a stout plastic bag & tape it up. I too think it will be fine.

10 years ago I had been in Provence & bought a 5 litre bidon of the most beautiful olive oil and had it in a "market basket" to take on the plane. As I was queuing at Marseilles the officials were walking down the line & told me that I couldn't take it out of the country (nothing to do with "hold" or "hand" - simply that I couldn't take it at all). No way was I going to lose this stuff, even though time was short. I said "oh excuse me" and dashed in the direction of the loo.
I opened my case and the first thing I saw was a plastic bag of washing. I emptied the washing out into my basket, wrapped the plastic bag round the oil and crammed it into my case, rushed back to the end of the queue, barely in time. As I went through security, they pawed through my dirty washing (just loose in the basket!) and looked at me rather oddly. I just stared back.
Olive oil reached home absolutely fine and we all enjoyed it hugely.

Have a lovely time, and if pennies are short, watch out for lovely stuff that you can bring back for Xmas presents - I always do!

monica31

ahall41116 wrote: »

has anyone considered OP might have used tesco vouchers or nectar points to purchase in the UK, thus saving on (what sounds like) very low spends when they get ther - who blames them? if it means they can still have a foreign holiday, they're doing better than I, who isnt.

Go for it, im sure you'll have no problems.

have a nice holiday

Ash

it was actually left at our place after a party 2 weeks ago so no spending involved at all.

DGX

monica31 wrote: »

Thanks for all the advice.

I am aware that you can buy wine for next to nothing in Spain but as we have hardly any money and had a box of wine already we thought we'd it hence the original question.

Oh and just a little FYI - you can leave the coal at home for your trip to Newcastle it was on the BBC news earlier this week that there is a ship delivering coal docked in the Tyne. They must be a daft as me.

Just to add that I regularly travel to Denmark and take my beer with me (Ryanair, in the hold), so can vouch that the only problem you are likely to have is a breakage if you were to take bottles - As you aren't then no problem

(You get around that by having plenty of clothes around them as padding)

dickydonkin

plumb1 wrote: »

Depends on which airline you use, 15-20kg of coal should be enough for the weekend,

No it won't!

It's cold and very wet up here right now so I would suggest using this mode of transport.