BODRUM AIRPORT review : 16 October 2009 by Nick Paul
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Customer Rating : 3/5 |  |
Through Bodrum in September 09 (using the international terminal for first flight departure of
day for domestic service to Istanbul. Check your airlines departure point - may not be from
the separate domestic terminal which is a taxi ride away from the international hall). Good
and clean facility, security to enter the airport checks bags and persons through detector
gate. Toilets clean and well signed. Gates clearly marked for departures. An outdoor cafe
offers croissants, pastries, sandwiches, coffee and teas - with a table service - but as with
all the other comments - watch the prices - 2 coffees, 2 crossants costs 22YTL - and from the
cafe inside at departure, 24 YTL for 2 glasses of fresh orange juice. Upstairs, a further cafe
offers meals, but closed at time of day at he airport and can't presume the prices were
better. One small shop with a few sweets and gifts - but no stamps sold here so don't plan to
post any last minute mail. Limited seating in departure hall - 10 seats in total - (plus
others for the cafe) before going through passport control. Prompt and efficient check-in
procedures handling a fairly full flight. Good signs for departures, and quick passport
checks. Ample seating at gates. No air bridge to planes though, so expect to get wet in poor
weather. Apart from food prices - a good and efficient place. Just turn up and travel if you
can, rather than hang around and wait.
BODRUM AIRPORT review : 15 August 2009 by M Bishop
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Customer Rating : 1/5 |  |
Difficult to add anything new to the comments listed. Both the prices charged for food and the
state of the loos should be considered a national disgrace.
BODRUM AIRPORT review : 27 June 2009 by J Catherall
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Customer Rating : 3/5 | |
As reported by previous passengers the prices in this airport are very high and very poor
value for money, payable in euros, turkish lira or pound sterling. Dull duty free shopping,
where is there any exciting duty free? I think that disabled passengers could not access the
first floor cafe so are restricted to the ground floor area with unappealing furniture and
probably the same high prices. The public areas were clean male toilets ok. Buses to planes.
BODRUM AIRPORT review : 22 May 2009 : by E Wright
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Customer Rating : 1/5 | |
Can only echo all the comments of the ridiculous costs of tea / coffee / refreshments. I would
strongly suggest not buying from the cafe in the upstairs departure lounge which is probably
the biggest rip-off in 30 years of air travel. To make things worse, we were delayed 3 hrs
returning to Gatwick - eventually leaving at 0600 from our check in at 0100 - and I still
wouldn't buy a tea for £4.
BODRUM AIRPORT review : 12 September 2008 : by Gareth Bowen
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Customer Rating : 3/5 | |
A little crowded and long waits when many flights leave about the same time - but that is to be
expected. The biggest problem is the cost of refreshments in the Cafe Sera. There is no
justification for an instant coffee - not much bigger than two espressos - costing 5euro (£4) or a
small plate of fries at the same price - captive client base with one airline (Onur Air) operating a
no meals on board service! The airport rating goes down significantly because of this.
BODRUM AIRPORT review : 28 August 2008 : by
M Price
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Customer Rating : 2/5 |  |
Facilities are basic. Toilets disgusting. Staff work hard and are efficient in moving people as
quickly as possible. Security not as high as UK airports but there are more smiles and a good deal
of patience. As stated in every entry above the prices at the rather shabby cafe are stupidly high.
Best advice is ask the cost before you buy then don't buy. I doubt the owner of this concession ever
reads these reviews or would even care if they did but I will never buy another item from this
place.
BODRUM AIRPORT review : 23 August 2008 : by
Stewart Townsend
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Customer Rating : 2/5 | |
Just returned from a holiday in Turkey via Bodrum Airport. Whilst the public facilities at this
airport are adequate and clean, the catering is a total rip-off. Soft drinks retail at £4 a can (70p
at Bristol Airport) and a very basic meal comprising hamburger, chips and soft drink will set you
back £10 a head! Best to take your own sandwiches and drinks. The Duty Free isn't particularly good
value either. Don't forget that you have to pay £10 a head for a 30 day visa on entry to Turkey. So,
have cash to hand.
BODRUM AIRPORT review : 19 August 2008 : by
Tony McLaughlin
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Customer Rating : 0/5 |  |
I was quite impressed arriving at BOD in the new Hall A. It made a change to arrive at an airport
which is an airport and not a shopping mall. If you are leaving from BOD Hall A, you would be
advised to eat and drink before going airside, as facilities there are very limited. Also if two
international flights are leaving at roughly the same time, there can be a long queue to get through
passport control, and even if you have a Club Class ticket, you cannot jump the queue. The Salon des
Vignobles is not worth the additional money (if you are not in Club Class etc) as the selection of
refreshments and snacks is very poor.
BODRUM AIRPORT review : 12 August 2008 : by J Lock
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Customer Rating : 1/5 | |
The airport has plenty of seating which is just as well because many of the charter companies using
it appear to have poor timekeeping. However, the food and drink on sale is a total rip off - €5 for
a can of coke, you must be joking! I travel a great deal worldwide and this airport must be about
the most expensive. Do they not understand that if they lowered the prices they might sell a lot
more? On the plus side they do not seem to stop you taking your own food and drink through which is
what I noticed all the regulars doing.
BODRUM AIRPORT review : 11 August 2008 : by Simon Boxall
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Customer Rating : 1/5 | |
One piece of advice: buy bottles of water and snacks in supermarkets before you leave - the airport
prices are ridiculous. Over £5 for a small cup of coke and £4.30 for a bottle of water! Don't even
get me started on the price of burgers and fries! If you're flight is delayed - good luck!
BODRUM AIRPORT review : 31 July 2008 : by T Mahmood
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Customer Rating : 1/5 | |
This airport is very basic. Add to that the absolute rip-off prices it seems the Turks want to
wring every single pound out of you before you leave. Prices are not cheap in the tourist resorts
but I was shocked at snacks and beverages being over eight times more expensive in the airport than
outside. That's blatant profiteering and the one small stain on a wonderful Turkish holiday. The fun
starts the minute you step out of the airport and not before!
BODRUM AIRPORT review : 30 July 2008 : by Wendy Chapman
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Customer Rating : 1/5 | |
Everything previously said is true - no help at security, check in or passport control. In fact it
appeared that you could take any food and drink through into the departure lounge. The duty free
staff appear to try and sell anything to anyone including vodka to my 10 year old daughter and it
was hardly duty free prices. The cafe is a rip off three portions of "chips", a ham sandwich and
four drinks was 83 lire (everything is priced in euros but they will work out the price in any
currency) and I have now seen the dirtiest place in Turkey - the toilets in the airport. Although
staff did put on some entertainment by driving a remote control car around the departure lounge!!
BODRUM AIRPORT review : 11 July 2008 : by B Sharp
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Customer Rating : 2/5 | |
The Turkish can't resist milking the last lira out of a captive audience. Needless to say, prices
are ludicrous - can't the Cafe Sera owners work out that they could get more profit from a higher
number of people buying more of their substandard food at lower prices? Can of beer is currently
£5.70. Wafer thin burger, chips, and small coke YTL 24 - a mere £10! Turkish toilets have been one
of the country's achilles heels for the past 50years. Unfortunately, little has changed. Toilets are
always it seems, an unnecessary add-on to any building. Bodrum airport is no exception. If staff
spent more time cleaning and servicing them and less time trying to rip-off the departing
passengers, we'd maybe see some progress. There's an expression in Turkish that goes "Azima ...tin"
- which, in this case, seems very apposite - it explains how Cafe Sera manages to leave departing
passengers with a bad taste in their mouths.
Bodrum Airport by Karen Makepeace
5 July 2008 Customer Rating : 
Bodrum airport is small and can get very overcrowded with a lack of seating space, especially when
people are hanging around for delayed flights. It is quite cool and clean. Once you go through to
departure lounge you are not allowed back out to smoke. Take your own food with you or buy some
crisps/sweets/drinks from the little shop on the left as you enter the airport. It is still a little
overpriced, but not as extortionate as the rest of the cafes and shop in departures. £4 for a small
plastic cup of tea or a smallish paper cup of coke! £9 for a burger, coke and chips. The food is
pretty awful, so please don't get ripped off. The prices are disgusting and show incredible greed.
Bodrum Airport by Andy Lodge
30 August 2007 Customer Rating : 
Airport new and clean. Not much to do at the airport so dont get there to early. In general the
airport is let down by the need to extract money from passing tourists £1.50 for a luggage trolley 100
yards use and 5 euros for a can of Fanta in the departure hall! Security did not appear to be as tight
as at UK airports.
Bodrum Airport by Grace Givnan
5 October 2006 Customer Rating : n/a
Although the airport is quite small it is clean. But watch out for the
'CAFE SERA' on the ground floor they charge £13 for 2 coffees and £10
for 2 beers and when you complain they just laugh at you.
Bodrum Airport by Geoff Hollings
5 October 2006
We found that passengers had to lift their own cases as well as hand
baggage, onto a conveyor to the x-ray machine, before reaching the
check-in desks. This was quite high and most people found it a struggle.
Be prepared to barter for prices in the Duty Free shops, but not in the
cafeteria, where prices are ri8diculous - we paid £14 for 2 teas and 2
coffees.
Bodrum Airport by Sue Wain
10 June 2006
I will agree the prices for food is daylight robbery. There are toilets
downstairs to the left as you enter the departure hall. I would like to
add that although the airport is small I found it very efficient. Quick
to board passengers, and flights leave as soon as all passengers are
boarded.
Bodrum
Airport by Mark Pearce
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September 2005
Milas-Bodrum Airport is quite small and looks fairly new. It is located about 30
minutes drive away from the town of Bodrum near the town of Milas. Passengers and their baggage have to
go through security at the entrance to the airport and again when going through to the departure
lounge. The check in hall has desks for all the Turkish airlines and a large screen listing all
the flights. Toilets and a small cafe can also be found in this area. The departure lounge itself
is very small had has a limited number shops and cafes (which are quite expensive) and only 4 or 5
gates. The only toilets in the departure lounge are located upstairs in the cafe. The arrivals
hall also has some shops and 4 or 5 luggage carousels which are located just after passport
control. The ground staff were very quick at delivering our baggage from the plane. Unfortunately there
is a charge of £1 for use of luggage trolleys (which i did not use) so it is better to take
suitcases with wheels on. On the whole the airport is fairly good and the staff are nice.
Bodrum
Airport by O Sciacca
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September 2005
Prices of robbery in the restaurant (7 Euro a sandwich, 5 Euro a coffe): what a
shame!!!
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