Lambada said:Airport security is not looking for a few bottles of booze! Actually, alcohol is pretty cheap here, especially rum, so why bring with you? Or are you talking about taking it out with you? That is not a problem at this end (the DR end) but might be if you exceed what you are allowed to take into the states.
P.S. Drugs are a COMPLETE no-no, in or out, (just in case that was another part of the question!)
2time said:I know the liquor is cheaper but I heard they don't really have name brand stuff...which I like....
This is NOT good advice. If you did it & got away with ooorrr, thank your lucky stars, but please don't post this as advice to anyone else. It is not responsible behaviour. I have now been involved in helping 2 people in the DR who were held on Habeas Corpus in drug cases. Both were innocent as the Courts here EVENTUALLY decreed. One was in jail 4 months, the other 14 months. It is a lot longer if you are guilty. Do not attempt to bring drugs in or take them out. Marijuana is classed as a drug here.ooorrr said:You can bring some w**d and stuff ...just not a lot ...bring a handful in your pocket you'll be fine...they don't check your pockets and you....just maybe your luggage or if they have a reason to check you like someone rats you out..
ooorrr said:You can bring some w**d and stuff ...just not a lot ...bring a handful in your pocket you'll be fine...they don't check your pockets and you....just maybe your luggage or if they have a reason to check you like someone rats you out..
ooorrr said:You can bring some w**d and stuff ...just not a lot ...bring a handful in your pocket you'll be fine...they don't check your pockets and you....just maybe your luggage or if they have a reason to check you like someone rats you out..
ooorrr said:You can bring some w**d and stuff ...just not a lot ...bring a handful in your pocket you'll be fine...they don't check your pockets and you....just maybe your luggage or if they have a reason to check you like someone rats you out..
2time said:What is the security like at SDQ(airport) ? With customs and everything...since 9/11
When I went Bahamas it they had dogs,army personal at the gates.
I want to bring some liquor with me but don't want to have a hard time.
ricktoronto said:You can bring lots of liquor unless it violates some limit set by the TSA as to how much one person can have ( which I doubt) , the security agents in the USA won't care , there are none on arrival in SDQ anyway, but if you have tons of booze with you , then the customs people, and rightfully so, can ask for a bribe, duty and taxes or take it away. Just like the good old USA. Remember you cannot check it in your baggage - THAT the airlines don't like and it will get wrecked, broken or on arrival in the DR, stolen, so carry it.
If you buy it at the airport in the USA at duty free you are past the secutiry anyway, and they bring it to the plane for you so I am not sure who you are worried about.
Also for your one week trip just how much do you think you have to bring anyway?
You must be spinning with worry over this trip based on the # of questions you ask.
In the U.S. it's two bottles...I've put liquor in my checked-in luggage. I wrap the bottles in the clothes that I didn't wear throughout the week, a (clean) sock over the bottle helps with the smaller bottles. Just make sure all the bottles are securely wrapped with clothes and that it is packed tight. I've brought back many bottles. When I came back from Sosua in April it took two people to lift the suitcase.ricktoronto said:You can bring lots of liquor unless it violates some limit set by the TSA as to how much one person can have .... Remember you cannot check it in your baggage - THAT the airlines don't like and it will get wrecked, broken
Ladybird said:Rick, methinks there is a little more to this. :glasses:
Escott said:for whatever it is worth I am moving my wine cellar here suitcase by suitcase. Ask some of the people that have been to my house and have had 30 year old wine with dinner.
Never had a problem either bringing it in a suitcase or my carryone which both have been full every trip.
Scott
ooorrr said:Look here dude's I am just telling what I did. I am not telling 2time to do it. I mean it is not like they have sniffing dogs at the airport checking people,in fact they are pretty laid back when you are coming in.
I bet not one senor here can tell a time when you were stopped and strip-searched or even had your bag thoroughly looked at.
Lambada said:ooorrr, so glad you're not telling anyone to do this. Now, when is your next trip to this beautiful country?
BushBaby said:Correction to your sumise! I go to the Puerto Plata airport quite often to pick people up & have witnessed MANY inspections going on. Agreed these were not strip searches I witnessed (although I HAVE been told of some in seperate rooms) but they were methodical searches of peoples luggage. ANYTHING of a white powder nature is taken away for further investigation - even if there is a doctors note to confirm the substance is legal & medically prescribed!! There were a number of cases earlier this year where the Santo Domingo drugs squad searched & found large consignments of drugs being smuggled out - the carriers are safely locked up for many years to come, thank God!!
Regardless of whether these searches ARE methodical or not, having drugs which MIGHT be found is a very dangerous thing to carry & YOU should not be suggesting to others that it MIGHT be safe to carry them IN OR OUT!!! Read the stories in the archives as to what happens to those even appearing to be involved with drug carrying or posession. To put YOUR involvement with same some viists ago on a PUBLIC domain board is a most dangerous thing to do & most foolhardy I would suggest! - Grahame.