News Flash - Duty Free Liquor when you arrive at MBJ just after Immigration

Before you get your bags - and go to Customs - great prices. Now you don't have to lug those bottles from the plane thru customs. Next to the Cambio

Nice!! So, once you land in Mobay...and go though the first steps....one can purchase duty free liquor?? Did this just change? Use to be, one could not buy unless departing. Great news to me....I often wondered why they would pass up the opportunity to sell items to incoming passengers. More money for Jamaica...Thanks Gailnegril! :)

Gail are you sure about this! If so sweeeeet!

Cancun International has the same set up & they do ALOT of business.....

Thats a change. I tried that once and got scolded :(

Good news! I'd be curious to know what their prices are, the duty free's leaving Canada have gotten ridiculously expensive :) so this would be a great alternative!

yipeeeeeee......dem must have just opened it.........
not going to be a lot of sober people on dat ride out to Negril anymore....lol
you won't ever see this guy using that Cambio but mi will be regular customer at dat Liquor Store.......
guess mi will find out the runnings in a couple weeks........
hopefully dem not taking any pricing lessons from dat Cambio........lol
if the pricing is any good dem better start backing up dem Liquor Trucks to the back door.........lol

Cool Runnings, Marko

Same at the Kingston airport....prices were REALLY GOOD!

At the Kingston airport after immigrations and before you retrieve your bags for customs you walk right through a duty free shop.

Wow - that is good news. Do they have cigarettes as well?

Yes they have cigarettes as well

Yes!!! Great news!

I just found this post - can anyone speak more specifically to the prices at the duty free liquor store compared to in Negril for rum and smokes? Better deal for smokes than bringing from home where packs are in excess of $7.50 per pack with new taxes? And is it a good deal to get some rum for rum punch mixing in our room or should we wait to go into town? We are very tight on time (only four nights) with such a short visit, so if we can save some $ and time, that's a bonus. Normally I would be more hell bent on giving local places business, but this shortie of a trip will make that a bit more difficult for snacks (we'll bring snacks) and booze. We can get juices easily, I assume.

Recommendations for a solid rum? I love me some Malibu back home...

In June we bought a bottle of Absolut and a bottle of Rum Creme.... 28.00 US

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Originally Posted by nicole.edith

I just found this post - can anyone speak more specifically to the prices at the duty free liquor store compared to in Negril for rum and smokes? Better deal for smokes than bringing from home where packs are in excess of $7.50 per pack with new taxes? And is it a good deal to get some rum for rum punch mixing in our room or should we wait to go into town? We are very tight on time (only four nights) with such a short visit, so if we can save some $ and time, that's a bonus. Normally I would be more hell bent on giving local places business, but this shortie of a trip will make that a bit more difficult for snacks (we'll bring snacks) and booze. We can get juices easily, I assume.
eparting the US
Recommendations for a solid rum? I love me some Malibu back home...

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Nicole, I'm guessing that buying cigarettes at duty free before departing the US would be the same price in Mobay arrival duty free. Anyone know for sure? I think a carton of Marlboros in departure duty free at Sangster were $28. I suggest you get some Jamaican rum, Appleton Estate perhaps and some rum cream and Coco Mania rum. I paid $11 for 1000 ml (33 ish oz) coco mania at Mega Mart in Mobay, great for mixing up punches, and it packs a punch! I can buy rum cream at home but not coco mania. I think I read you can't get either one in the states. You could find those at HiLo or even little places in Negril. Good to see that arrival duty free sells rum cream, and at a good price it appears.

Thanks, Melody! I'll probably only buy a few packs of smokes...I'm not a regular smoker at all anymore - but on special occasions, like being in JA, I'll need some when I have drinks. ;) Great suggestions on the rum. I am getting ridiculously excited now...

Not sure that you'll be able to buy single packs at duty free arrival. And buying in Negril, you'd probably spend close to the same amount as at home. I think guys on the beach charge $700j a pack.

Okay, cool. Good to know - can't you tell I'm not a smoker? Haha!

http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic...h_Jamaica.html
Lots of information here about Duty Free at MBJ

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Originally Posted by nicole.edith

I just found this post - can anyone speak more specifically to the prices at the duty free liquor store compared to in Negril for rum and smokes? Better deal for smokes than bringing from home where packs are in excess of $7.50 per pack with new taxes? And is it a good deal to get some rum for rum punch mixing in our room or should we wait to go into town? We are very tight on time (only four nights) with such a short visit, so if we can save some $ and time, that's a bonus. Normally I would be more hell bent on giving local places business, but this shortie of a trip will make that a bit more difficult for snacks (we'll bring snacks) and booze. We can get juices easily, I assume.

Recommendations for a solid rum? I love me some Malibu back home...

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What you can do for smokes buy at the duty free in your US airport. The smokes you will get in Jamaica will not be the same. The pack will look the same but they are from a different Tabacoo farm. They will not taste the same. Buying duty free at the US airport will be with out all your state taxes. I think you are allowed 1 carton per person per week
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^^THanks! When I smoke, I like a American Spirits, so I'll likely just pick up a few packs in my hometown. I wanna smoke the good ones and not curse myself whenever I get a craving for one because I cheaped out and got some cruddy floor sweepings or something. ;)

There is also a great place to buy liquor in Green Island that is cheaper than most Negril prices. It is located right at the curve downtown on the right hand side going towards Orange Bay. I will have to check out the prices when I next arrive at the airport.

'Melody' said 'I think a carton of Marlboros in departure duty free at Sangster were $28'
is anyone 100% sure of the cost of 200 cigs in MBJ on arrival? i just did a quick search and air canada has marlboros for $39/200 cigs.
i'm hoping to stop smoking before i visit but just in case, and marlboro lights are my favourite travel cig.

Marlboro Lights were $31 in July. (For some reason I thought they were $36 but my husband says different!)

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Originally Posted by 2nutz4travel

Good news! I'd be curious to know what their prices are, the duty free's leaving Canada have gotten ridiculously expensive :) so this would be a great alternative!

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You got that right! That's because duty free isn't profit free! I would like to check out their prices as I find the rum pretty cheap in the wholesale place and HiLo ... but then, coming from Canada, anything is cheaper for booze, right?