Re: Minimum Pricing for Alcohol in Wales Coming Into Effect Next Week!!!!
Originally Posted by
swimfeeders
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Hi
Get used to it.
Brexit means the end of the Cheap Booze runs.
You will no longer be able to import cheap booze or fags from the EU, you will be limited to the basic Duty Free Allowance, which is minimal.
Two hundred Cigarettes , a few bottles of wine and one bottle of spirits.
Guy smokes, we will have four years supply of Cigarettes for him at £2.30 a packet, 1400 bottles of wine at less than £3 a bottle and 600 Bottles of Vodka at less than £4 a bottle before we leave at the end of this year.
All perfectly legal.
My goodness, Swimmy! that is a lot to store.
I remember when we as a family used to take two trips a year over to Calais in the 90's for our duty-free goods for our fortnightly BBQ's in Summer and then for Christmas and New Year. There would usually be two carloads of us and we would drive to Dover, pay extra to go over 1st class which was only a few pounds more for each person (I think it was about £5 extra per person each way)but well worth it as treated like royalty, pop to the hypermarket in Calais, stock up on our allowance of beers, wines and spirits, along with delicious cheeses and Pate's etc, then finally stop at a restaurant for a lovely meal before heading for the rather long journey home.
As the government are now saying Duty-Free will be returning after Brexit Dec 31st, We may yet again start doing our twice-yearly trips, though not sure if this decrepid body is capable of such a long journey 21 years later.