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Felt like in refugee camp,but good
    by stevehood1 (May, 2013)
Reason for Stay: Connection between flights
Where: Airside
Pros: Lot of space for sleeping,comfortably seats,carpet on floor
Cons: Extremely annoying announcements without an second of silence
We arrived 5am and had to wait 20 hour for our connection flight,and we quickly found free seats for sleeping. Seats look like brand new with leather cushioning,comfy,armrests on every fifth seat so good for sleeping. This aiport is super-overcrowded and earphonesearplugs are necessary for sleeping as there are SO SO extremely annoying non-stop callings for passanegers that i couldnt fall asleep while i didnt put earplugs to my ears.Then we slept about 7hours like babies on seats. There is at least hundreds of peoples who do the same but there are really lot of seats so its still not problem to find some place,or you can sleep on carpeted floor where the gates are. I couldnt connect to free wifi but there is an daily paid connecting whoch cost only 1 if you pay online,or check one older review where you can find username and password for continued >>Was this Helpful?
Very popular place to sleep
by dutchie (April, 2013)
Reason for Stay: Early flight departure
Where: Landside
Pros: Nobody bothers you
Cons: Like a refugee camp Hard to find a seat that doesn't have someone sleeping
Spent one night in International departures to catch an early flight. Place is like a shelter or refugee camp. There must have been over 100 people sleeping all over the place. Seats to lie down on, were hard to find as most were already occupied by people sleeping, especially some of the comfortable padded seats. The majority of seats are however cold unpadded steel. On the positive side no officials hassling anyone and some places open 24 hrs. People coming and going all through the night. I'm somewhat prone to think that this airport may be a place where the homeless sleep, as some groups did not appear to have any luggage and their appearance was bedraggled at best. I would definitely do it again. Other than it being so busy it was a hassle free night.Was this Helpful?
Free Internet
by fatpossum (March, 2013)
Reason for Stay: Other
Pros: none
Cons: I just hate this Airport
This is not a proper review since i think I am not objective enough, because i simply hate this Airport.
I arrive there and depart from there a few times per year and it is always the same.
There are only very few people who speak english.
If you need help your best chances are the information desk or the personnell at the duty free shops.
But i wanted to write something about the internet there.
Upstairs you find a Cafe/shop in one corner that gives you the password for their WLAN if you buy something, but the soda i bought was nearly twice the price of the kiosk on the other side.
If you already checked in and went through the security check, turn left towards the Starbucks and the Turkish Airlines Lounge.
Fast Internet. I don't know how often they change the password but here is the login:
Network: THY LOUNGE
Username : thy continued >>1 person found this review helpful Was this Helpful?
Freezing but peaceful
by LadyInRed (December, 2012)
Reason for Stay: Connection between flights
Where: Landside
Pros: peaceful, clean
Cons: cold hard metal benches
I arrived at Istanbul Atatrk around 2pm and had a domestic flight booked for the next morning, leaving at 11am.
Under the airport is where the subway comes and goes, 'a ticket' costs only 3 TL. I hopped in and randomly choose a place to go out ( Bakirky ). The subway route is very simple; it is straight and goes back to the airport straightly.
Went back to the airport around 6pm, went through security to International arrivals since welcomers where welcome as well. Upstairs it's more peaceful so found a 3 bench row next to the window. They are made of metal so you will get cold even if it doesn't feel cold at first. A lovely European gentleman was sleeping there too and offered me some towels and pillows. It was peaceful, rather quiet and no one came to hassle, except the cleaner at 4am.
The benches are in front of glass walls, and y continued >>2 people found this review helpful Was this Helpful?
There is not a single helpful person in the airport
by Travelgrrl65 (April, 2011)
Reason for Stay: Weather/airline delay
Where: Landside and Airside
Pros: Turkish Delight in Duty Free,
Cons: Limited English staff not helpful, signage confusing
We missed our connecting flight and tried multiple long attempts to be re-booked on a different airline, or through a different city. (Numerous conversations along the lines of 'Can you book us on the flight to London and then we'll get a connecting flight from there?' 'Cannot be done' 'What if we went to Paris and then got a connecting flight from...'Cannot be done.') We resigned ourselves to spending the night. There is an excellent bar upstairs and away from the food court, which has an outdoor smoking area, but aside from that, the airport is loud and crowded. We ended up camping at the gate after things started to close, and were left alone for the most part, although it was far too cold to sleep.
On the plus side, the people watching is fabulous.
We later found out that Turkish Air would have given us a free hotel room for the continued >>1 person found this review helpful Was this Helpful?
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