Originally Posted by
jackal
We were thinking more along the lines of a 12-pack case
each.
Coincidentally, the DXB customs folks replied to my email this morning (which I had sent to them before I posted here). They said that anything above the duty-free limit would be charged a duty of 50%. (Since even near-top-quality wines here are sub-$30 and many sub-$20, that's still exceptionally reasonable.) I replied to confirm that this applied to personal import limits for personal consumption and a reply was then sent to me in the affirmative.
I believe the fine folks here much more than some outsourced email contact center, but I thought it was interesting that their reply so starkly contradicted what their phone representative said and what has been posted here.
Are you trying to say something here?
How are you bringing the wines in?
If you bring them in they will take them off you. What you have to understand about dubai and the region is you will not have an easy time getting the correct answer and people will provide you with inconsistent advice.
My advice is either ship the wine home and pay the duty there or bring 5 bottles each.
You are lucky you don't live here, we pay a lot of money for wine in dubai from Les clos at the airport and I would never dream of going over the allowance these days.
Re AS there are a lot of people who are *viewed* as having earned miles on AS relatively easily and use them for long haul f flights which upsets skywards members due to taking up availability and also how hard it is for eK members to earn miles. This is not helped by the frequent postings from as flyers asking to spend 1/2 days in an airport lounge because they can't afford a hotel!
*obvouisly not all