Travelling to Malaga, Spain - Can I take food in my hold luggage?
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I'm going to Malaga, Spain on Friday.
I will be self-catering and as I arriving quite late, I wanted to take some dried pasta/sauce with me in my hold luggage so I can have a snack when I arrive.
Does anyone know if you're allowed to do this?
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I will be self-catering and as I arriving quite late, I wanted to take some dried pasta/sauce with me in my hold luggage so I can have a snack when I arrive.
Does anyone know if you're allowed to do this?
Thanks
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Have a lovely time!
I went to Hong Kong last week and I was worried I couldn't take some fruit in my hand luggage but the security woman at Gatwick said it was fine, as long as liquids are less than 100ml and in the see through bag things.
yeah but the pasta sauce probably would be over the 100ml I would've thought. Solid food is fine on the flight though
dried pasta should be fine - if you're worried just declare it when you go through customs -there are usually signs and bins for any food you wan to leave before you enter the country as well.
Don't know how much the sauce is, it's only a small pot.
I won't take it in my hand luggage anyway - i'll chuck it in my suitcase.
Are you allowed to take food on the flight, to eat in the flight, like sweets, cookies etc?
Sorry - I feel really clueless today
can I recomemnd that you place it inside something else as well. Cos if it's in the hold it may well freeze and of course if it freezes it will burst the top off /break the the jar. This happened to me with a tub of aqueous cream
So I'm taking it that once you get through Security you can buy drinks and other things like crisps ec and take them on the plane with you?
Pasta sauce and dried pasta in the checked in baggage will be absolutely fine. There were problems with bringing in meat during the Foot n mouth and BSE problems, but they are I think in the past.
And sweets for the flight are fine in your hand luggage.
Not water though - get a bottle once you get through security.
This shouldn't be a problem anymore, most aircraft holds are now pressurized and therefore subject to the same temperatures as the cabin. That is why you're allowed to put aerosols into your checked baggage now
Exactly! What is it with people? Do they think you cannot buy these items in other countries? Very strange.
Some people are just mean with money too! Or they assume products are more expensive abroad or that they won't sell their favourite brand!
If so theres a great Carrefour supermarket there.
I take my own spices to Florida when I go because you try getting some of them, it's nigh on impossible.
If you know you'll be arriving after the shops shut surely it makes sense to take something to keep body and soul together until the morning?
Yes I'm sure they do but not when you're arriving at 4am in the morning, nowhere's open. And it has been the same way the past 4 times I arrived at that time of the morning
You can survive for a few hours surely without food. The shops'll be open at 9 at the latest.
Been through there 6 times and seen nobody resembling a customs official. There does not even seem to be an official customs desk/search point.
There is a luggage carousel though which is on its own though, situated at the end of the baggage reclaim room, surrounded by perspex and which always seems to be full of African-looking people - don't know why its boxed off from the rest though!
Not relevant to the subject but though I would mention it.
Of course you can. But why would you? Ok, you might, but it's not for me...i even take a carton of milk so i can have a cup of tea before i have to go shopping in the morning