cheapest place within the eu?

[ronnietoon]

where is the cheapest place to buy duty free cigarettes in the EU,also is it 3200 the limit in all EU country's including ones that joined in 2004 and after tia

[SpikeyBush]

Not sure about tobacco but certainly for drink Luxembourg takes some beating. I was out that way in the car on business a few years ago, there is a street there on the German border with tax free warehouse after tax free warehouse. I filled the boot of my Vectra with wine, beer and spirits and some strange yellow stuff that my German sister-in-law is fond of and the whole lot was only €180. The back bumper of the car was nearly scraping the road driving up the hill out of Dover. Only hassle I had was UK Immigration doing a spot check in Calais but they were only looking for illegal immigrants hiding in my car. No room for them, thanks to all the beer!

[hc4361]

Estonia

http://www.the-tma.or.../eu-cigarette-prices/

[SpikeyBush]

Haha! When I was in Finland I was asking the guys I was training up how they coped with the high price of drink there. "That's what Estonia is for" was the reply.

[ronnietoon]

thanks for the site hc, dont really fancy estonia was thinking more on the lines of amsterdam weekend break then a rebate for my filthy habit with the cigs.

also not to discredit any country but i bought some sealed well known branded cigarettes in a duty free section of a turkish airport(only allowed 200) got them home and they were fake.fake cigs bought in an airport!

[SpikeyBush]

If you're in Amsterdam, see how much a train ride down to Luxembourg is. The drink and diesel were both dirt cheap there. Get enough ciggies in and the train fare will be paid for many times over.

[ronnietoon]

spikey a mate said the same as that a bus fair that would be anything up to say £3 here depending where you live was about 60p and also that a certain service works out at around £35 and the services are vetted.

[chi-chi66]

ronnietoon

what service is that then!!??

[hc4361]

The price in Luxembourg has gone up recently.
http://travel-guide-e...of-cigarettes-in.html

[malagabob]

Without looking at the links, I believe the recommended personal allowance to be brought into the UK changed last year, down from 3200 to 800 cigarettes and 3kg to1kg of tobacco.

[Buenchico]

As your question suggests, there were originally transitional arrangements applying to imports from some new EU member states (which effectively meant that those states were regarded as non-EU when bringing in tobacco products). Those arrangements have now lapsed, so the same rules apply to all EU countries.

However, as Bob indicates, the 'advisory limit' (for the maximum number of cigarettes you can bring in from elsewhere in the EU) was reduced to 800 ciggies from 1st October last year:
http://www.hmrc.gov.u...riving/arrivingeu.htm

Chris