Advice: Tax-exempt airport stores are one of the perks of international travel, but not everything at duty-free is a deal.
At the center of this indoor shopping area, there’s a 65,000-square-foot park planted with bamboo, Macarthur palms, water trumpets and Egyptian water lilies sourced from sustainable forests around the world. It’s the last thing I expected to see after a 13-hour flight from Houston, and I still can’t believe it’s there.
But the setting wasn’t all that drew my attention. If you’re a member of the Avios loyalty program, you can earnin the Orchard — or anywhere else at the airport. And you can buy items using your points, a potential game changer in the highly competitive duty-free shopping world. “You can also purchase products that aren't available in your own country,” she adds. “These items can be perfect as gifts for friends and family, or even just a souvenir of your travels for yourself.”Duty-free stores follow a special set of rules because of the tax exemption. Generally, you must be a passenger on a departing international flight to buy from a duty-free business at the airport.
Duty-free doesn’t necessarily mean hassle-free. That’s what Nina Weiss, an office manager from Allentown, Pa., discovered when she flew home to Philadelphia from Lisbon in December.“I decided to spend my last euros on some white port,” Weiss said. When she changed planes in Montreal, she passed through U.S. Customs.
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