CARDIFF AIRPORT GUIDE (CWL)

QUICK FACTS Name: Cardiff Airport IATA Code: CWL ICAO Code: EGFF Opened: 1942 Terminals: 1 Runways: 1 Destinations served: 43 Passengers: 1.5m (2009)

DUTY FREE

Major duty free outlets

Duty free shops are often a highlight on a traveler’s airport experience.  Regardless if you are travelling for pleasure, or for a big business meeting abroad, you will be sure to find something that suits your fancy at the duty free shop within Cardiff International Airport. From Cardiff Airport parking garages, passengers can breeze through security control and find at the departures lounge the Travel Shopping Tax and Duty Free shop. Tax free and duty-free, this shop carries cosmetics, accessories, scents for men and women, confectionery products, electrical gadgets, and many other essentials to satisfy any type of shopper. 

Duty free limits

Duty free limits depend greatly on your destination country. If you are returning home from a European Union member country such as Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Greece or Hungary, you may carry up to one liter alcoholic beverages of 22% strength or stronger, up to two liters of table wine or sparkling wine, 200 cigarettes or 250 g tobacco, up to 250 ml of toilet water and up to 50g of fragrances and souvenir items worth no more than £145. UK Customs is very strict when it comes to tax-free and duty-free items so be sure that you don’t go beyond the limit.

Hot items

Designer perfumes and branded cosmetics are hot items at the Travel Shopping Tax and Duty Free shop by Nuance. Chocolates and candies, wines and spirits, cigars, fashion accessories, jewelry pieces, shoes and bags are also tax free, meaning you can buy these items at 40-70% less than what you would pay when buying them in shopping malls and specialty stores. It's No wonder that many passengers traveling outside the country take the opportunity to load up their shopping bags with duty-free products which they would otherwise spend a fortune on.

Carry on luggage

Before security, UK airports generally prohibit large quantities of cosmetics, bathroom essentials like toothpaste, deodorant, shaving cream, aerosol sprays,and hair gel, sharp objects, perfumes and anything that comes in liquid form except baby milk formulas and medicines) to be hand-carried or placed in the hand baggage or cabin. After security, airport passengers bound to other countries except the United States are free to purchase liquid and gel products at the Nuance Shopping Tax and Duty Free Shop and store at the aircraft cabin during their flight. Currently, airlines bound to the United States prohibit products in liquid form to be carried to the aircraft cabin (other than approved travel size toiletries).