Originally Posted by Pointsloop

When I was doing research about bringing alcohol into Maldives, it seemed like a very risky idea. But when we came in last night, not a single person checked our bags at the Male airport. I read that all bags get x-rayed before leaving customs, but that wasn't the case for us. There was two exit lines, to declare and nothing to declare. We walked out through nothing to declare. Had we stuffed a bottle of rum in our checked bag, we would have been fine. I think... YMMV.