Is it hard/ long to get thru customs in Naples?

It depends what you're carrying/smuggling

Since you look suspicious and are from Texas you will probably be detained while they look for hidden weapons!

Ordinary folk pick up their luggage and walk out the door, just like in any other European airport.

You two are really funny. Yes, we Texans don't call 911, we carry guns. Lol.

I was asking how long the lines are in customs?

I think you are confusing Passport Control--where officials inspect and stamp your passport --with Customs.

Most people walk right thru Customs unless they have something to declare.

I have never been stopped by Customs in Italy.

Thin

Just as I said. There are no lines. You pick up your luggage from the conveyor belt and walk out a door into the bright sunshine. You don't even have to fill out a landing card as you do when returning to the US.

No one asks you anything. There are no agricultural scans, no questions, no body searches. No one in Europe cares. If you have something to declare I guess you'd have to find someone who cares enough to know about it.

I hope you're not bringing pizza to Naples - Yikes! You would have to declare that!

If you do mean immigration, and not customs, then the lines are always short. Again, it's nothing like returning to the US where you sweat in line for an hour.

For flights coming from the US to europe the "customs" (allowing YOUR LUGGAGE into the cuontry) is just picking up you luggage and walking through the Green (noting to declare) lane.

Immigration (allowing YOU into the country) will take longer - but usually is not too long since there are not usually a lot of international flights arriving at the same time.

>>I was asking how long the lines are in customs?<<

No lines at all - ever really. Unless something attracts attention of the agents you won't even talk to anyone.

Immigration (passport control) lines can be short or very long - depending on how many other flights, and from where, land around the same time.

Thanks everyone. You guys are all hilarious. Your right, customs here in the states is HORRIBLE. Sometimes the airlines don't give you enough time for your connecting flight after waiting in customs line soooo long. Arriving in Italy will be a pleasant change. Maybe we will just stay in Italy. Oh, and why do you think we are coming to italy? To have good Pizza. Can't wait.

Thanks again, Barb

Don't forget to use a knife and fork to eat your pizza so you blend in!

Very funny.

<< Very funny. >>

I'm serious. I guess you could eat pizza with your hands but no one else will be doing so.

I don't remember eating pizza with a knife and fork in Italy when we went 8 years ago. And we went to Rome, Venice, Florence and Tuscany., and ate lots of pizza. If people were laughing at us, we didn't notice, cause we were enjoying the fab pizza too much. Oh well.

>>Very funny.<<

Pizza isn't a finger food in Italy . . .

"Pizza isn't a finger food in Italy . . ."

Or anywhere else in Europe that I'm aware of. Of course, there's not much that is, there.

Ok. Got it. ����

Why are you asking?

As far as I'm aware, the only flights into Naples that require passengers to go through immigration are those from the UK, Turkey and Tunisia. There also seem to be no widebody flights into the airport.

If you're travelling from outside Europe or the Mediterranean, you'll almost certainly have gone through immigration at a proper Schengen-area intercontinental airport like Frankfurt or Amsterdam. If you are travelling via London, you'll arrive with a small number of people, and immigration will take a few minutes.

Customs (as opposed to immigration) queues are a bizarre American ritual - presumably a form of job creation for the unemployable - travellers in technologically advanced countries simply cannot fathom. Can you really not find something less wasteful of taxpayers' time to keep potential delinquents off the streets?

<< If people were laughing at us >>

I never said anyone was laughing at you - those are your words. You can use your hands if you want. I'm sure you did pick up the pizza with your hands before.

I was giving another comment on the word "customs" since before I opened this thread and read it I thought it was about behavior rather than declaration of goods brought into Italy. And since I mentioned pizza as a topic on declaring what you bring into Italy I gave it a twist and commented on how to eat pizza - the custom of eating pizza.

Oh well...