We have been invited to a wedding in Phuket next week and thought it might be nice to take some french bubbly as I beleive wine is expensive in Phuket, we thought we would get this in Melbourne duty free, however we are not going directly there but having 5 days in Bangkok before going on to Phuket, question is would we be allowed on to a plane in Bangkok with this bubbly our would it be better to get this at Bangkok airport prior to going to Phuket ?, your advice would be most appreciated.

I think that you will have trouble taking it if you buy it in Melbourne and do not get a flight straight through. Even bottles that I had with me that were 150 mls but it was obvious that they were not a third full were taken off me.

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Kiss
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you can put bottles of wine in your checked luggage (up to the customs limit of course). Whether you want to risk the thing exploding all over your clothes however is another thing. Yes, imported alcohol is really spendy in Thailand.

You certainly won't be able to handcarry any bottles on due to the strict limits on liquids, and as Mark points out you run a risk of having a bottle broken if you put it in your luggage. Last trip down to Perth I put half a doz cans of Singha beer in my checked on luggage and when I got to Perth one can had been cracked open (probably due to a heavy bag being tossed on top of my bag) all my freshly laundered clothes were soaked in beer.
Personally I wouldn't bother travelling with bottles.

In Australia we dont have liquid limits on internal flights but in Thailand the same rules for international are for domestic!

We arrived at Phuket airport 2 weeks ago with our duty free booze and flew out to Samui on a domestic flight a few hours later and was suprised to find that they wanted to take my duty free off of me at domestic check in, I argued the point that the duty free bag was still sealed from Perth airport and that I hadnt left Phuket airport and was only in transit. After a bit of too and throwing they let me keep it.

I would imagine not everybody would argue the point and loose it.

So unless its in your checked luggage you wont get it through,but I wouldnt fancy putting bubbly in my luggage with all that throwing around its bound to pop.

No wonder Bobmac didnt meet me for a beer when he was in Perth ,he was proberbly sick of the smell of beer.

Den