In Reply to: duty free alcohol & customs posted by maurjohn on Friday, 27. February 2009 at 09:40 Bali Time:
our duty free allowance last december after a friend of ours who lives in Bali had advised that he had not been able to buy any decent vodka or gin at the time. We decided that we would take in the extra and risk losing it or paying dearly for the duty so that we could enjoy a decent drink on holiday! We declared the amounts that we were taking in on the customs card and placed one bottle in each of our hand luggage bags and carried two through. Fortunately for us they didnt read the entry card and only checked the contents of the duty free bag that we were carrying.
As it turned out a couple of days after arriving the previously empty shelves were stocked with decent vodka and gin and whilst expensive I would have rather had purchased locally than start the holiday as anxious as I felt. There is no way that I wouldnt have declared it.