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Day trip to holly head restrictions

  • 08-02-2018 12:58AM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 128 ✭✭


    Hi thinking of doing a day trip over to holy head and I'm wondering if you can buy bottles of spirts in say asda and bring them back home with you on the ferry as a foot passenger to take back home or is ferry the same as airport were you must have under 100ml
    Any other advice on what can be allowed if I do shopping over there.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,567 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    there are no restrictions in the EU for personal use. In terms of what the companies would allow
    You can bring as much hand luggage as you can comfortably carry, but it must be packed in a suitcase or bag. No boxes or loose items are acceptable as hand luggage. One small piece of hand luggage will be permitted to be carried with you – the rest will be checked through our luggage handling facility. Please note that each item of checked in luggage must not weigh more than 22kg and you will not be able to access these items during the crossing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,065 ✭✭✭✭Odyssey 2005


    No restrictions,if you can carry it on board you can keep it...if it's legal of course ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72,412 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    The savings are usually not worth it except during the pre Christmas sales; which is a more major issue


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 128 ✭✭dmcm_90


    there are no restrictions in the EU for personal use. In terms of what the companies would allow
    there not clear on alcohol purchased in a store on land to bring home on foot. It's the 6.50 ticket paying


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,070 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    dmcm_90 wrote: »
    Hi thinking of doing a day trip over to holy head..
    Have you ever spent any time there? It's a kip. I had to kill 8 hours there a few years ago and it felt like a life sentence.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,907 ✭✭✭Stephen15


    A quick word of warning there is nothing in Holyhead it's dare I say a shíthole. If cheap UK booze is what your after then your better off going up North. You'd save time and money going up North if you have a car and you will get a better selection of shops than in Holyhead.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,260 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    Have you ever spent any time there? It's a kip. I had to kill 8 hours there a few years ago and it felt like a life sentence.

    I did it with a bike a couple of years ago waiting for a train. Didn’t feel safe!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 128 ✭✭dmcm_90


    Have you ever spent any time there? It's a kip. I had to kill 8 hours there a few years ago and it felt like a life sentence.
    I have been over in the past by car. The place seems fine to me. I'm only going over to do something different than do a day trip hear. I don't have to stay in holy head. Cam go other places if I wish


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,260 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    dmcm_90 wrote: »
    I have been over in the past by car. The place seems fine to me. I'm only going over to do something different than do a day trip hear. I don't have to stay in holy head. Cam go other places if I wish

    Aren’t you very limited by foot?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72,412 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    The museum of failed retailers, also know as the high street; the I can't believe it has a food safety certificate takeaways: the fighting pubs. Holyhead has it all!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,626 ✭✭✭Macy0161


    godtabh wrote: »
    Aren’t you very limited by foot?
    The Asda is in an out of town retail park too.

    Can only echo the previous comments of it as a place - best thing in it is the (now) dual carriageway out of the place.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 128 ✭✭dmcm_90


    I don't want to know what the place is like all I want to know is are you allowed alcohol on in carry on. It's for drinking on the ferry bit to take home. that's all I asked
    It's not for drink I'm going it's just to get of the island for a few hours instead of doing something. I might buy a bottle of something if it caches my eye. Like a flavoured bottle of vofka we don't have over hear


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72,412 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    They won't let you drink alcohol you brought on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,474 ✭✭✭vandriver


    Don't forget the chipper I went into that seemed to be staffed by the local asylum.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,764 ✭✭✭✭ArmaniJeanss


    dmcm_90 wrote: »
    I don't want to know what the place is like all I want to know is are you allowed alcohol on in carry on. It's for drinking on the ferry bit to take home. that's all I asked
    It's not for drink I'm going it's just to get of the island for a few hours instead of doing something. I might buy a bottle of something if it caches my eye. Like a flavoured bottle of vofka we don't have over hear

    There are no liquid limits to what you can carry on, the 100ml container restriction is just an airplane thing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,409 ✭✭✭Nomis21


    Bring back as much alcohol as you like and if you are not making it too obvious you will be able to drink it on the 4 hour ferry crossing.

    There is also a 2 hour hour fast ferry but that gets cancelled if there is any sort of wind blowing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,118 ✭✭✭Chris_5339762


    Holyhead town is an awful dump, but Holy island is lovely, very like Howth.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,474 ✭✭✭vandriver


    Holyhead town is an awful dump, but Holy island is lovely, very like Howth.
    That's an awful long walk from Holyhead.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is only down the road


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,907 ✭✭✭Stephen15


    P_1 wrote: »
    Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is only down the road

    That's another dump all that's in it is an overpriced gift shop, a cafe and a co-op.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭circular flexing


    Nomis21 wrote: »
    Bring back as much alcohol as you like and if you are not making it too obvious you will be able to drink it on the 4 hour ferry crossing.

    There is also a 2 hour hour fast ferry but that gets cancelled if there is any sort of wind blowing.

    Not necessarily. I think it used to be the case that it couldn't dock in Holyhead overnight so if it got to Holyhead then it usually had to make the trip back. I was on an awful crossing on it years ago - my wife and myself were the only people who didn't vomit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 670 ✭✭✭tallaghtfornia


    vandriver wrote: »
    Don't forget the chipper I went into that seemed to be staffed by the local asylum.

    I remember going to that chipper with my aunt in the 80s and I asked her why the chips had so many eyes in them :D:D


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