Also, Swedes go on cruises to Åland (a Swedish-speaking Finnish island with low/no alcohol taxes) and famously bring huge suitcases to fill with booze.
Lol it’s both, I’ve been on the famed swedish booze cruise with family over there and it’s a yearly tradition for them to stock up on liquor, but it’s also a weekend long party on a boat. One bartender was concerned that 14 year old me didn’t want any vodka in my red bull.
I took one of those booze ferries in college from Oslo to Copenhagen. The drunkest I got that whole semester by far was our trip back. But my favorite was the old ladies with boxes of hard liquor and packs of cigarettes getting off the boat
Also, Swedes go on cruises to Åland (a Swedish-speaking Finnish island with low/no alcohol taxes) and famously bring huge suitcases to fill with booze.
I thought it was tax free because the ferries keep loitering on international waters for enough time.
Lol it’s both, I’ve been on the famed swedish booze cruise with family over there and it’s a yearly tradition for them to stock up on liquor, but it’s also a weekend long party on a boat. One bartender was concerned that 14 year old me didn’t want any vodka in my red bull.
I took one of those booze ferries in college from Oslo to Copenhagen. The drunkest I got that whole semester by far was our trip back. But my favorite was the old ladies with boxes of hard liquor and packs of cigarettes getting off the boat