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 jeremy
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*i keep reading different ages,so whats is the legal age for buying and drinking in st.thomas?

 
Posted : April 30, 2003 10:06 pm
 RonUSVI
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Eighteen. What have you been reading?
Ronnie

 
Posted : April 30, 2003 11:28 pm
 The Islander
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Get this question a lot and the confusion seems to be because you cant travel back with it unless you are 21 but you can buy it at 18....

So the legal age like Ronnie said is 18, you can buy it and drink it on the island at that age. Get into bars and stuff at 18, some id some don't.... almost all stores will though.

If you intend on buying bottles of rum, vodka whatever and traveling back to the states with it as many visitors do, duty free, you need to be 21 as you are traveling back to the USA which has a legal age of 21 - I have seen several "minors" get their 1 or 2 bottles taken away - one girl was pleading that it was a gift for Dad -- for the customs officials made her dump it.

--Islander

 
Posted : May 1, 2003 12:26 pm
 jeremy
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ok thank you very much.i read on formmers or frommers.com that it was 21.

 
Posted : May 1, 2003 4:55 pm
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