International Flights - Children & the Liquid Rule

[Boo Boo]

So on Thursday, I am departing to NZ with a 6 yr old, 3 yr old and 18month year old. How lenient are customs with children's water bottles, will I be able to take a medium sized water bottle for each filled with water or do you think they will take them off the kids. If so, then I guess you just have to have a drink before you board, on the plane wait to handed out drinks, etc.......anyone flown internationally recently with kids and how did you go with the water bottle thing? Thank you.

[*Ang*]

Empty them before you go through and then once you are through buy water on the other side and then refill your empty drink bottles before getting on the plane.
I have been made to empty kids water bottles a number of times so it is just not worth the hassle.

[Butterfly Dawn]

milk is ok if baby is holding it. but the rest buy on the plane side keep receipts

[Doing my best]

We were asked to empty the water bottles and fill them up once we went through security. However they didn't worry about the 2 bottles we had of milk.. (nor did the care about the water for formula the previous time we travelled).

ETA - i flew in April from Brisbane.

[Taurean]

We flew to Singapore recently (July) with an almost 3 year old and a 7 month old. The EBM I had was fine, milk and baby food is totally acceptable however they will most likely want to see it, but all our water bottles were taken, the 3 year old's included. Thankfully we just had a Pump bottle for her so we bought another once we'd cleared customs.

[LuluHB]

We few internationally last December and had to empty the girls' drink bottles prior to going through customs, and then fill them again once we got to the departure lounge. Poor DH had to drink a LOT of water very quickly when we didn't think about it early enough ;-)

[nickle730]

We travelled around Europe when DS was 12 months old and I was asked to drink some of his bottles at several airports. I asked in London why and was told it was to prove that the bottle didn't contain milk coloured explosive!!