ddean52 Posted August 10, 2009 #1 Share Posted August 10, 2009 Once we arrive in Budapest, we would like to buy a bottle of scotch for our viking cruise, where should we go? thanks in advance! Dean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
no fuss travel Posted August 10, 2009 #2 Share Posted August 10, 2009 Why not buy one at the duty free at the airport? I don't recall seeing any hard liquor stores but I am sure there are some around. We mainly found stores selling wine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddean52 Posted August 10, 2009 Author #3 Share Posted August 10, 2009 sure. but this might be easier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddean52 Posted August 10, 2009 Author #4 Share Posted August 10, 2009 Why not buy one at the duty free at the airport? I don't recall seeing any hard liquor stores but I am sure there are some around. We mainly found stores selling wine. rather than having to carry it through customs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
no fuss travel Posted August 10, 2009 #5 Share Posted August 10, 2009 We just breezed through customs. Basically because you are not leaving any gifts in the country, you have nothing to declare, so you go into "nothing to declare" line. they look at your passport, stamp it as point of entry and you are on your way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddean52 Posted August 10, 2009 Author #6 Share Posted August 10, 2009 are you speaking of buying the scotch in our duty free store or in budapest? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
no fuss travel Posted August 10, 2009 #7 Share Posted August 10, 2009 If you have a direct flight to Budapest, your store. More reasonable I should think. Maybe someone else would know if there is a duty free store before you exit the Budapest airport. I know there is at Heathrow, but we did not fly out of the Budapest, so I don't know about that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacksonnh Posted August 10, 2009 #8 Share Posted August 10, 2009 ddean, I asked a contact on TA from Budapest and here's her reply. Nearly every shop is well stocked with various drinks, even the supermarkets like Match etc. He will have no problem finding scotch of all varieties Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddean52 Posted August 10, 2009 Author #9 Share Posted August 10, 2009 ddean,I asked a contact on TA from Budapest and here's her reply. Nearly every shop is well stocked with various drinks, even the supermarkets like Match etc. He will have no problem finding scotch of all varieties Dave Dave, thank you so much! Very kind of you! Best regards, dean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcrandle Posted August 10, 2009 #10 Share Posted August 10, 2009 One caveat about buying liquor (or perfumes) in duty free shops. If you have a plane change after your international departure and you buy duty free booze in your departure city, are handed it as you board, you might have it confiscated in your plane change airport, as possibly you will change terminals, causing another trip thru the security scanners, and no liquids over the one quart ziplock will be allowed. If, however, you had a direct flight from your US gateway to Budapest, you could take advantage of the lower price of duty free scotch at the shops in the US gateway airport. The downside is you would have an additional bag to repack, or carry with your hand luggage. Another consideration is that since Hungary is a member of the EC, there are no duty free sales from other airports within the EC, so if you had a flight from LHR to Budapest, you would not be permitted to purchase duty free liquor as your ticket would show that you are flying within the EC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoshona2 Posted August 11, 2009 #11 Share Posted August 11, 2009 Hi, Why don't you buy it at home (we buy it at Costco), wrap it in bubble wrap and put it into your checked luggage. We brought home three bottles of wine from France last year and it never broke. Sheila Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
letsgo39 Posted August 11, 2009 #12 Share Posted August 11, 2009 DH purchased a bottle of bourbon in Budapest on the Vaci Utca. It was at a store about 2 blocks from the Central Market on the right hand side of the street with your back to the Central Market. Also only about 2 blocks from where our Avalon ship was docked near the Elizabeth Bridge.The price was very reasonable and he said it was very good bourbon. The liquor store had a large selection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddean52 Posted August 11, 2009 Author #13 Share Posted August 11, 2009 Thanks everyone! I have the name of a store near our hotel in Budapest. As always, you have been very helpful! Dean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marco Posted August 11, 2009 #14 Share Posted August 11, 2009 We just retuned a few days ago from a Grand Circle that ended with 3 days in Budapest. There are many, many stores where you can buy any kind of alcohol and we found prices there much better than duty free stores in the airports. And as someone as noted above if you are not on a non stop from the US to Budapest and have to connect in another European city, in many of those, you have to go through security again and liquids of more than 3 oz are NOT allowed in carry on. And by the way.....Budapest is clean, safe, intersting, exciting and inexpensive!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddean52 Posted August 11, 2009 Author #15 Share Posted August 11, 2009 right! our flight has two legs, so we will buy in budapest. thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoshona2 Posted August 12, 2009 #16 Share Posted August 12, 2009 It's really great that you can buy liquor so easily in Budapest. I had a terrible cough with bronchitis when we were there several years ago and tried to find a pharmacy to buy some cough med. Finally, found one in a basement and they mixed some concoction that tasted just awful and didn't really work. We carried it through security and I only had to take a taste for the security people before they let me pass. Thus, we now add cough medicine to our list to put in our luggage in bubble wrap. Isn't flying fun?? Sheila Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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