Sounds like you haven’t done much international travel. Post up any other questions/concerns. Last I counted, between work and pleasure I’ve been to 15 countries on 4 continents and 4 islands.
Tip #1: Bring a pen with you on the plane. It’s a lot easier and less stressful to figure out how to fill out the customs and immigration forms on the plane when you’ve got an hour left in the flight than when you hit the busy/noisy airport.
Tip #2: On the customs form make generic declarations. I.E. “Packaged Foods $50” or “Souveniers $150”.
It will cost $60 to ship a small box. I am going to get the suitcase I’ll be using this weekend, my dad says it’s small enough to bring as a carry on. So I can bring that and my bookbag as carry on to avoid checking baggage. Idk if i believe him though.
Always keep in mind when buying crap that you can bring more weight in baggage to the UK then you are allowed (without paying extra fee’s) to bring back!
Bad Idea. Just bring a checked bag and put that shit in it, pack it well so it doesn’t get destroyed. You don’t want to have to deal with going through security with all of that shit. And you def can’t bring things like a six pack MOUNTAIN DEW on the plane.
You could stuff it all into your suitcase and check it. I probably wouldn’t even declare it at customs. They never check your bags on the way in. If for some reason they do, just play dumb about having to declare it. It’s not like there’s anything unsafe about bringing some packaged food so you wouldn’t be worth their time to spend more than 5 seconds on.
Yep. I wouldn’t go any later just because shit happens, but it’s never taken me more than 20 minutes to go from parking lot to departure gate in Buffalo.
I’ll be there oct 15th to 18th, 3rd time there, I love the customs lines in some terminals. Goods to Declare gate, and No goods to Declare gate. Going overseas is easy, its coming back that you realize the US is like the USSR
Ill be in the goods to declare line I suppose? or no since everything will be in the checked bag? Depending on the size of the suitcase I am given and what exactly I am bringing I might check the suitcase and carry on a duffle bag and my book bag. the food and some clothes will go in the checked bag and the rest will be with me. I wont be bringing my laptop. just my ipod and a book or two. (maybe some textbooks as I am missing a whole week of classes, taking 6 classes this semester)
Pack a clean pair of underwear and a toothbrush in your carryon. (Meaning, pack enough to get you by for a day or two in case they lose your checked bag.)
You pick up your luggage before you go through customs and immigration, so you’ll have all of your luggage with you when you pick which customs line. I wouldn’t declare a few pieces of packaged food. Not worth their time or yours. At customs they just take your customs slip, probably won’t even look at it. “Immigration” is where they check your passport and decide whether or not to actually let you enter the country. Next comes customs, which is where you hand them your piece of paper as you walk past, hardly slowing down usually.
this website says I only need to declare alcohol, tobacco, and things like that.
Use the Red Channel if you:
have goods to declare; or
have any sums of cash (notes, coins, bankers’ drafts or any cheques including travellers’ cheques) of 10,000 Euro or more (or the equivalent in another currency); or
have commercial goods; or
have tobacco products from an EU country that are over the limits for imports from that country; or
are not sure what you should declare.
Use the Green Channel if you are travelling from a non-EU country with:
no more than the customs allowances: and
no banned or restricted goods
Use the Blue Channel if you are travelling from a EU country with:
no banned and restricted goods; and
no tobacco products that are over the limits for imports from that country.
If you bring in goods on which tax has been paid in an EU country, you do not have to pay any tax or duty on them in the UK.
