Do we buy alcohol in Oz or Bangkok?

Do we buy at duty free here or just wait till we get to Bangkok for the best Spirits price.

Thanks

Do we buy alcohol in Oz or Bangkok?

If it%26#39;s wine then buy at home, for spirits I don%26#39;t know shop prices but for some examples, Gin / rum etc ranges from about AUD 11-20 depending on brand. Scotch is about AUD 25-30 a bottle.

A reasonable Australian wine is about AUD 25

Do we buy alcohol in Oz or Bangkok?

I meant I don%26#39;t know your %26#39;local%26#39; shop prices in %26#39;Australia%26#39;.

Monica4 is right about the wine and spirits. Alcohol here is taxed on volume rather than on alcohol content, meaning a litre of wine at 11% alcohol gets the same tax treatment as a litre of gin or whiskey at 40% alcohol. So wine is ridiculously expensive here - about double what you%26#39;d pay in Oz.. Hard spirits are probably more expensive than Oz but not as painfully so as wines so probably not worth lugging it from Oz.

I certainly wont be buying wine over there then........sounds very expensive.

wine is very expensive here compared to Oz so lease buy and come

Cheze, I bought a bottle (700ml) of bacardi today, normal Aussie prices $27. Duty Free a few months ago at Adelaide airport a 1litre bottle was $24 (about) then a 1 litre bottle when arriving at Phuket airport was 550Baht (about $22).

Cathy

you can,t bring more than one bottle of spirit and 200 cigs into thailand , very perilous to go over the limit at the moment-- big fines

You can buy decent enough Jamaica Rum for about THB 260 ( that is roughly AUD 10 ) in the liquor shops in Thailand that to me tastes just as good when mixed as the %26#39;top brand labels%26#39; so maybe the top branded bottles might be pricey but I find the Jamaica white rum at around AUD 10 in local shops to be just fine.

Cigarettes in Thailand range from THB 45-60 ( about AUD 1.75 to 2.25 a pack ) so if you are a smoker I wouldn%26#39;t bother bringing any duty free as they are cheap here anyway.

Thank you all,

So really in regards to Spirits (except for the Jamaca Rum) it is really a couple of dollars diff. between buying here (Oz) duty free and buying in the shops over there (Bourbon)? Am I reading this correctly.

Chezepops

What ever you decide to bring from OZ just make sure you are within the limits allowed or you could get an extortionate fine. I got fined 拢400 gbp for too many cigarettes and cigs were confiscated so be aware, same goes for alcohol.