"Incredibly expensive"
Ahmad Dawood (Egypt)
✅ Trip Verified | From the first minute you will find yourself struggling to breathe, crowded, rude, angry faces, distances between toilets and lifts and gates are crazy. Incredibly expensive, around 3 euros for the smallest water bottle - food is very expensive, queues everywhere , toilets are dirty, it might look better definitely if less busy.
Experience At Airport | Transit |
Date Visit | January 2025 |
Type Of Traveller | Solo Leisure |
Queuing Times | 12345 |
Terminal Cleanliness | 12345 |
Terminal Seating | 12345 |
Terminal Signs | 12345 |
Food Beverages | 12345 |
Airport Shopping | 12345 |
Wifi Connectivity | 12345 |
Airport Staff | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
"Dull, overcrowded and expensive"
Jeremy Bolton (United Kingdom)
Not Verified | Nothing inspiring about this airport at all. Dull, overcrowded and expensive. Arriving and transfer to Istanbul. I gather trains and buses are expensive and infrequent. So there's taxis Firstly, like restaurant menus, there is a local price and a tourist price. Get into a taxi and you're snared. The journey to the city centre is some distance and the trip can take anything from 40 mins to 2 hours depending on the traffic, so the taxi driver will be able to 'justify' the cost. We paid €55 for each trip by private taxi organised by the hotel. Seemed reasonable. Top tip. As the passport queues, when arriving, are the usual length (v long) , avoid logging on the airport WiFi to update the taxi people until you're through, as the connection only lasts 30 minutes. Phone package was £7 a day if that's an alternative for you. Departing You have to join the queue to get your bags and self scanned....so you can join the next queue to get your bags and self scanned - again. Not that anyone seemed too diligent in inspecting the screens. Once through, there aren't enough seats and there's no water fountains anywhere. What we thought was enough lire to buy a couple of drinks and a snack each , was actually just enough for the former. Again, the 'free' WiFi lasts just 30 minutes, but there's loads of machines around to buy more time. Don't know how much but lengthy queues at all of them. Expect to be searched and wand - scanned again at the boarding gate
Experience At Airport | Arrival and Departure |
Date Visit | December 2024 |
Type Of Traveller | Couple Leisure |
Queuing Times | 12345 |
Terminal Cleanliness | 12345 |
Terminal Seating | 12345 |
Terminal Signs | 12345 |
Food Beverages | 12345 |
Wifi Connectivity | 12345 |
Airport Staff | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
"the worst image of the country"
Basim Jee (Denmark)
Not Verified | I feel like these people at airport are briefed to be the worst image of the country. I asked 8 people about some information or information desk. All of them gave me wrong directions and some even said we don't know. When I appraised police man at the airport, he insulted me by saying to step away from him and wait 10 feet away until he finishes his call. This made me hate the country and it's people. This is by far the worst and most irresponsible staff I have ever came across. And for Wifi you need to queue at a machine to get a code that works for 30 minutes. I found so many exhausted people and angry people.
Experience At Airport | Departure Only |
Date Visit | December 2024 |
Type Of Traveller | Solo Leisure |
Queuing Times | 12345 |
Terminal Cleanliness | 12345 |
Terminal Seating | 12345 |
Terminal Signs | 12345 |
Food Beverages | 12345 |
Airport Shopping | 12345 |
Wifi Connectivity | 12345 |
Airport Staff | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
"Coke at Champagne Prices"
Robin Bramhall (United Kingdom)
Not Verified | Coke at Champagne Prices. I went through this Airport in transit between Sharjah and Manchester. Couldn't find any water fountains so I bought 2 x 500 ml bottles of coke - price £13. I know low cost airlines use this airport, but in some cases the drinks can be more expensive than the flights. Didn't spend long enough in the airport to look around much, but the toilets were grubby and the general feeling was of a 3rd world airport. I suppose you get what you pay for - low air fares and expensive and poor airport infrastructure.
Experience At Airport | Arrival and Departure |
Date Visit | November 2024 |
Type Of Traveller | Family Leisure |
Queuing Times | 12345 |
Terminal Cleanliness | 12345 |
Terminal Seating | 12345 |
Terminal Signs | 12345 |
Food Beverages | 12345 |
Airport Shopping | 12345 |
Wifi Connectivity | 12345 |
Airport Staff | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
"price in the airport is extremely high"
Keyvan Diamondo (Sweden)
Not Verified | Extremely bad climate control. Bad in many aspects. Crowded Rude and unrespectful security and passport control. Prices in restaurants, free shops and any merchandise price in the airport is extremely high. A simple sandwich will cost you 25-30€ Free shops are charging you much higher than the product cost you anywhere else on this planet. I'm shocked that this is allowed to happen and airport authorities allowing this. Be careful and keep this in mind.
Experience At Airport | Departure Only |
Date Visit | November 2024 |
Type Of Traveller | Family Leisure |
Queuing Times | 12345 |
Terminal Cleanliness | 12345 |
Terminal Seating | 12345 |
Terminal Signs | 12345 |
Food Beverages | 12345 |
Airport Shopping | 12345 |
Wifi Connectivity | 12345 |
Airport Staff | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
"Terrible airport"
Jane Iyer (Singapore)
✅ Trip Verified | Terrible airport! Slow check in (no machines), slow immigration (& confusing). Food & drunk expensive & not a great selection. Free wifi for 30 minutes only. Worst of all nowhere to fill water bottles; if you’re going to take water away at security at least provide somewhere to fill bottles. I avoid buying single use plastic bottles.
Experience At Airport | Departure Only |
Date Visit | October 2024 |
Type Of Traveller | Couple Leisure |
Queuing Times | 12345 |
Terminal Cleanliness | 12345 |
Terminal Seating | 12345 |
Terminal Signs | 12345 |
Food Beverages | 12345 |
Airport Shopping | 12345 |
Wifi Connectivity | 12345 |
Airport Staff | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
“prices are very high”
1 reviews Ebuzer Aydin (Turkey)
Not Verified | Airport security check is overcrowded, prices are very high. They cut free internet every 30 minutes. City shuttle bus too expensive and not frequent.
Experience At Airport | Departure Only |
Date Visit | October 2024 |
Type Of Traveller | Solo Leisure |
Queuing Times | 12345 |
Terminal Cleanliness | 12345 |
Terminal Seating | 12345 |
Terminal Signs | 12345 |
Food Beverages | 12345 |
Airport Shopping | 12345 |
Wifi Connectivity | 12345 |
Airport Staff | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
"One of the worst experiences"
Usama Salman (United Kingdom)
Not Verified | One of the worst experience i had. Long queues, staff doesn't speak English and rude behaviour, working slowly. Signs were not that helpful. The wifi doesn't work, boarding gates were too far.
Experience At Airport | Arrival and Departure |
Date Visit | October 2024 |
Type Of Traveller | Family Leisure |
Queuing Times | 12345 |
Terminal Cleanliness | 12345 |
Terminal Seating | 12345 |
Terminal Signs | 12345 |
Food Beverages | 12345 |
Airport Shopping | 12345 |
Wifi Connectivity | 12345 |
Airport Staff | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
"they are rude and shout at you"
S Samera (United Kingdom)
Not Verified | Why are Turkish people so rude? The people that work at this airport have no communication skills what so ever they are rude and shout at you when you don’t understand what they are saying. Some of the workers ignore you if you ask for help. Why are you guys so miserable? I hope I never have to use your airport again worst place to be. Please learn basic English and learn how to possibly smile! You spoke to us like we weren’t human shame on you all!
Experience At Airport | Arrival and Departure |
Date Visit | September 2024 |
Type Of Traveller | Couple Leisure |
Queuing Times | 12345 |
Terminal Cleanliness | 12345 |
Terminal Seating | 12345 |
Terminal Signs | 12345 |
Food Beverages | 12345 |
Airport Staff | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
"a bad image of the country"
M Al Adawi (Oman)
✅ Trip Verified | Generally, the airport was on average, if it is used only for arrival or departure. In our case, we had to stay almost five hours waiting for our next flight. I was with my wife and our 4-year-old son. We managed to rest on the chairs by the moving walkway. The free wifi lasts only for half an hour! The food and beverages were ridiculously overpriced! They reach 10 times what it would be just outside the airport! We felt like we were trapped. I think this airport is giving a bad image of the country. We will avoid this airport in the future.
Experience At Airport | Transit |
Date Visit | September 2024 |
Type Of Traveller | Family Leisure |
Queuing Times | 12345 |
Terminal Cleanliness | 12345 |
Terminal Seating | 12345 |
Terminal Signs | 12345 |
Food Beverages | 12345 |
Airport Shopping | 12345 |
Wifi Connectivity | 12345 |
Airport Staff | 12345 |
Recommended | no |