You would be incorrect, though. There are 2 flights landing within 10 minutes of each other at that time of day. One from HK at 6:15 and one from SIN at 6:25. Throw in the remnants of the 5:25 from KL and you've got a busy immigration and customs area. And if you're arriving on a Friday there's also the 6:40 from Denpasar.

Great! Haha. Thanks for the info though!

Ooops. Shouldn't reply to posts without drinking coffee first.

TBH, I've never had problems getting through AQIS whether I've had stuff to declare or not. Getting through passport control has always been the delay for me.

Cheers

LG

Hi Guys

I am returning to Oz in Jan.

To be clear - I want to bring in sealed dry roasted nuts in my hold luggage - so just write that on the form and declare and they wont take them off me, have I got that right?

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No. As stated earlier in the thread, nuts are not allowed in, they will be confiscated.

(edited to add - if you are lucky and the AQIS person had a good day you might get them through, but generally even the nuts onn a Walnut Whip cause its confiscation)

Hey Hey Polly they let me in

I guess if it comes to that they let me in as well

Have you any hair left after all that

I'm sat here eating dry roasted peanuts brought in from uk... Declared at customs by my niece and nephew..... They brought 6 large bags with them... And the grey nomads always brought them over....

Perhaps they were allowed in coz they don't have dry roast peanuts here so didn't know what they are


You want some? They're yummy.....

I love em, and if they get in thats great, don't bank on it though. Nuts are supposed to be banned.
It does depend on who you get, how closely they look at the stuff coming in etc - one of those grey areas like artificial berries on hats and stuff containing dry milk powder. I got hassle this time bringing in sealed supermarket Christmas puddings, do it every year, first time they've argued "no way cos they contain fruit" Supervisor rolled her eyes and waved me through, puddings and all.

Apparently the official line on dry roasted nuts is that they are OK to bring in but need to be inspected at point of arrival. I have found over the years that so few customs people seem to have any idea of what is and isnt OK it really isnt funny. Some will want to disinfect a pair of shoes in your bag if they have a blade of grass on them but wont look at the shoes on your feet.

Thats why some things are more dodgy to bring over than others - some stuff is always OK, but others will depend on who is on that day.
Funniest thing I ever brought in was Flying Saucers - those rice paper sweets filled with sherbet. They only showed up on the X-ray machine as being a pile of white powder...........

Will we be seeing you on an episode of 'nothing to declare'?

no that was a few years ago and after being introduced to the delight of flyging saucers they let me in with my precious bagful! Very funny though, apparently rice paper doesn't show up on the xray machine.

I've watched quite a few of those programs so when we were on holiday last year I declared everything down to the chewing gums in my pocket - we actually got through everything real quick and they weren't that interested in what we had