Duty free con at Tenerife airport

Fortyfoot

The airport duty free are charging more than twice the price for a bottle of honey rum than the resort shop Spanish Style!



Fortyfoot

k3lvc

And ????


Unless I'm out of date then the island itself is 'duty free' so any difference in price is down to margin/costs of retailers. Big flashy shop in airport will be more than small downtown store

parcival

It's not a con. It's the price they want to charge - very common in a lot of duty free shops where prices are lower in the high street.

Know your prices and make your own choice but it's not a con.

bradders1983

On the flipside, the other week Gran Canaria duty free were flogging 3 x litre bottles of Smirnoff vodka for €28, so it can work both ways.

z1a

What percentage of travellers want to buy honey rum?

pramsay13

Are you raging because you decided to wait until the airport to buy some and it backfired?
It looks as though the local shop has a deal going on. What is the normal price behind the hand-written label?

motorguy

Fortyfoot wrote: »

The airport duty free are charging more than twice the price for a bottle of honey rum than the resort shop Spanish Style!



Fortyfoot

And?

They're there for convenience, not to be the cheapest. Their costs are probably x10 in an airport.

motorguy

On the plus side, that rum looks excellent so going to get a bottle when i'm on hols.

Heading to Lanzarote on Saturday so will invest in a bottle. Or two.

gettingtheresometime

I know this is a stupid question but given the restrictions on the amounts of liquid you can take in carry on, are you saying you'd run the risk of the bottle now breaking in your suitcase?

slinga

gettingtheresometime wrote: »

I know this is a stupid question but given the restrictions on the amounts of liquid you can take in carry on, are you saying you'd run the risk of the bottle now breaking in your suitcase?

I bought a bottle of Royal Salute whisky and packed it in my suitcase.
It got broken and I cried and cried, just joking about the crying bit.


That was years ago but nowadays if you buy booze outside the airport can you hand carry it through customs etc or will it get confiscated???

Pollycat

slinga wrote: »

I bought a bottle of Royal Salute whisky and packed it in my suitcase.
It got broken and I cried and cried, just joking about the crying bit.


That was years ago but nowadays if you buy booze outside the airport can you hand carry it through customs etc or will it get confiscated???

Any liquids will be subject to the 100ml rule when you get to Security.