Originally Posted by
SunLover
I also shop JWB as my de-facto price indicator. Transited TPE recently and they were having a 35% off sale:
750ml = $110usd
1Liter = $150usd
As of a Apr. 25th, there was a promotion at TPE. JWB for $150, plus a free grey rolled carry on and 1 x 200ML mini bottle of JWB. Quite a nice bonus. It also included free engaving. They did say the quantity of those 200ML bottles were limited. There is a dedicated consignment for JW at the corner by the gates; the engraving machine is located there (if you turn right after Immigration, at the end where it splits into a T - may have more than one location, I did not roam the whole terminal to find out).
I wound up buying 2 x 1000ML bottles; had one engraved for a gift. They were also nice enough to present me some nice JWB blank cards and a nice sturdy JWB heavy paper stock bag. It made for a real nice gift presentation. And now I also have those cool little mini bottles to give as gifts.
Originally Posted by
JY1024
(The last time I bought JWBlue in TPE, I had it confiscated by security at NRT since I didn't realise you had to pass another security checkpoint even though I was simply connecting from an intl flight to another intl flight.
Thankfully, the Admiral's Club was willing to work their magic for me and reunited me with my whisky at ORD. ^
)
The sales lady at the JW store almost dropped her jaw because her colleague was ready to etch/engrave the bottle... she asked right before starting the process if I was going straight to the US; I said, "No, transit through NRT." That put a dampner on the whole process. She emphatically insisted that I could/should not buy it because of NRT screening. I realized this to be true, so I ran to my gate, asked the NH agent if I could gate check it and luckily was able to do so. Ran back over to the JW store and gave them the OK.
Spent most of my "lounge" time exercising between the gates, but in the end, it worked out OK.