Final Destination FRA -- Access to Duty Free there?
 

Am flying into FRA tomorrow, will likely arrive at a remote stand. Does anybody know whether I will have access to Duty Free, even if FRA is my final destination? I need a gift for a friend and it's been a while since I arrived there.

Thanks!

No -- that's not how duty free works

You will have many gift shops to select from.

You'll have *access*, but you won't be able to buy anything since you won't have a valid boarding pass. That being said, plenty of stores in FRA, it all depends on what you want to buy.

Indeed there are many shops in Frankfurt but if OP is traveling from outside Europe maybe OP should think about something good from the origin city (and if origin city is in the US it usually tends to be cheaper than buying in Germany). I know that when my wife travels to visit her family in Belgium, she gets a page long list of things to bring ......... and many of those things would make a good present.

OT, but a couple of weeks ago, I wasn't able to buy *anything* at AMS after I landed, because I couldn't produce a boarding pass. I was trying to buy some postcards at a regular store...

As the query is about gift shopping in FRA / Germany, will move this to the German Destination fourm

WineCountryUA
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Some airports in Europe have duty free shops for arriving passengers but FRA isn’t one of them.

If you have access to the airside terminal on arrival (usually on arrival of schengen flights by docking or at the bus arrival by turning the other direction than exit), Heinemann duty free accepts arrival boarding pass for duty free shopping. I've done that many times.

If you have to pass immigration then most of the times you'll be funneled to immigration without terminal access from where you might not have access back to the airside without ongoing boarding pass.

Yes, what ralf says.

You can access the duty frees on arrival, they do accept your incoming BP. I do this regularly, usually heading towards the one opposite the SEN lounge in A. But, of course, it's not a problem, either, to use the other Heinemann duty frees.

I'm transferring at MUC headed to NAP. Can I purchase at Heinemann duty free even though I am continuing to a Schengen destination?

Thanks. Answer was yes. I bought a bottle of single malt I had not seen before and did not see once I landed in NAP. Prices weren't great.

At Heineman, I'd shoot for the special offer items. Often times, if something I like is not on special offer, I'll pass.

Good deals on special offer include, for example, a full liter of Bombay Sapphire 47% (not the s**tty 40%) for EUR 21.90, 1 l of Tanqueray for EUR 13.90, Talisker...

Some places , they need to scan your boarding pass for their tax/VAT reports.