Airport Smoking Areas

[dublinamg]

I was in Manchester airport recently and didn't know there was a smoking area after departures in Terminal 1 - found out later it was up the stairs from Starbucks and out behind the restaurant there. Would have used it if I had known. Do most other airports have similar smoking areas outside. Might be useful for smokers to know.

DUBLIN - Smoking area up the stairs to Burger King and the bar/restaurant in Terminal 1 and through the doors at the back of the bar. Nice area with tables and chairs and you can bring a drink out but not food. Lots of staff using it when I was there. Surprised that Terminal 2 doesn't have one as it is newly opened with the smoking ban but you can go to the Terminal 1 area once you go through departures.

What other airports have them and where are they?

[PositiveClimbGearUp]

There are several threads about this in other forums, but the problem is knowing whether the information is up-to-date and reliable.

I can confirm that Newcastle has a covered outdoor smoking area in one of the bars in departures - you have to buy a drink to use it, but that's a small price to pay when you need your fix! There are signs up stating NCL are looking to improve their airside smoking facilities.

Schiphol has several smoking areas airside - some are within bars but you're not always forced to buy a drink (at least I wasn't).

Heathrow has no smoking facilities after security.

I'm only commenting on the airports I've personally visited in the last few months, for the reasons stated above.

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[ZFT]

Singapore Terminal 1 Upstairs Harry's Bar and downstairs Harry's also

Suvanhabumi - By gates 1A & 2A on all concourses as well scattered on other walkways

Manila - After Security on left in Coffee lounge

KL - Almost opposite TG lounge

[Tintop]

From over the last couple of years -

Heathrow - No
Gatwick - No
East Midlands - Yes
Manchester - Yes
Birmingham - No
Narita - Yes (amazing)
Boa Vista - Yes
Glasgow - No
Haneda - Yes
Sanford - Yes
Toulouse - No

How sad am I ........

[Rush2112]

Jakarta's SHIA: any-bloody-where!

[SpringHeeledJack]

Seoul Incheon has a lovely huge smoking area made out of glass and it was a sight to behold when a 747 from China offloaded a mass of passengers gagging for a ciggie, definitely IFR conditions inside :p

Hamburg also has several small cosy smoking cubes airside recently installed.


SHJ

[rennaps]

I think you can still smoke in the Irish bar in Dubai airport.

[Pom Pax]

Limited open air smoking areas in Sin, one a roof top garden area (not much cover if it rains), another near Silver Kris lounge is a dingy room outside of the air-con system with the outside wall 2/3rds glass top 1/3 open.

No smoking areas inside the terminal at Suvarnabhum any longer. However there are notices apologising for the closure of the smoking rooms and blaming Gov. regulations!

This was the smoker's experiences on 29th Jan. 2012.

Only one smoking area in terminals 1 & 2 (not 1 each) in KL. (26-12-11)

Sin low cost terminal covered open air area.

[PleasureFlyer]

Geneva, main terminal, 1st floor above the main duty free shop.

[ZFT]

No smoking areas inside the terminal at Suvarnabhum any longer. However there are notices apologising for the closure of the smoking rooms and blaming Gov. regulations!

This was the smoker's experiences on 29th Jan. 2012.

Sorry but they WERE there last week at gates 1A and 2A on each of the Intnl concourses and various other areas.

[edi_local]

Edinburgh has no smoking facilities, neither does Prestwick. KEF has a smoking balcony after security, next to the toilets and duty free DVD shop. Stockholm Skavsta has indoor smoking booths where the air is extracted away, but they are designed in a way that you are not isolated from others.

Although I'm personally not a smoker, I don't see why more airports (especially the likes of LHR) don't offer facilities for them. It seems stupid to me that an airport operator is happy to see fire alarms being activated by pissed off passengers smoking in toilets or hidden corners, but won't set aside a small outdoor area or invest in a simple smoking room.

Funny that BAA airports have none, people smoking outside means they won't be inside spending money! :}

[very ex-ba]

BNE Brisbane Airport ,Queensland also has a smokers area to the far left of the international departures lounge, as you enter it.

[SpringHeeledJack]

Funny that BAA airports have none, people smoking outside means they won't be inside spending money!

It always makes me laugh when you see all the (perhaps desperate) smokers outside the terminals congregating around the signs proclaiming "NO SMOKING" .. As said if they were inside, they would be spending, or obliged to spend more like, what with BAA seeing terminals more as shopping centres than passenger terminals :rolleyes: . Those small self contained cubes with strong air extraction systems seem to be the way to go.



SHJ

[Hotel Tango]

For the list, Brussels has smoking areas.

The worst critics of smokers are ex smokers and I'm one :}

Filthy habit :E, give it up boys & girls :ok:

[edi_local]

It always makes me laugh when you see all the (perhaps desperate) smokers outside the terminals congregating around the signs proclaiming "NO SMOKING" .. As said if they were inside, they would be spending, or obliged to spend more like, what with BAA seeing terminals more as shopping centres than passenger terminals :rolleyes: . Those small self contained cubes with strong air extraction systems seem to be the way to go.



SHJ

It'll be interesting to see if the new T2 at LHR has a smoking area, what with it being designed and built in the time that the smoking ban was in effect. My money is on it not having any facilities for smokers, yet having plenty of WH Smith's airside selling cigarettes at 20% more than on the high street! :D

[Capt Wannabe]

When the UK smoking ban came in for indoor public places, BAA declared there would be no smoking airside. This applies equally to staff as well as passengers.

The slightly ironic side to this is the significant increase in staff passing through Validation Points as they go landside for their fix several times per shift.... :ugh:

[edi_local]

Probably best they don't have them at BAA. I can see it now: £1 for 10 minutes of smoke time. After that you either top up or the sprinklers come on.

[pppdrive]

Both Hong Kong and Beijing have smoking areas in deprtures area

[Kittty125]

Zurich and Amsterdam too!

There is also a bar in the Emirates terminal in Dubai but they make you buy a drink! It's towards the eastern end...

[Exascot]

There is also a bar in the Emirates terminal in Dubai but they make you buy a drink!

Yes the Irish bar. So do you usually go into a bar and not buy a drink? In my book it should be illegal to even pass a bar without buying a drink. :ok:

OK, I know a bar there where you can smoke and especially for you Kittty - all the drinks are free. You don't even get shoved into a smoky room it is the area at the end of: First Class Lounges | Emirates Terminal 3 | Dubai International Airport | Emirates Online Booking and Planning | Emirates (http://www.emirates.com/english/plan_book/dubai_international_airport/emirates_terminal_3/lounges/first_class.aspx) A great pub :cool:

[Cymmon]

There is a smoking area (room) in Doha premier lounge, and also was an area for smoking to the far right of Lanzarote airport.

[ConstantFlyer]

Frankfurt has several little cubby holes with smokers cocooned in 3m x 1m perspex cages, a big extractor sucking their noxious fumes away. All the smokers I saw there looked quite glum. I suppose smoking is something people do while doing something else, mostly, so being stuck in there purely to smoke must have been fairly boring. I do pity the poor people who subsequently sat next to them on flights, their clothes reeking of their own and all the other smokers' smoke. If they'd been able to have a crafty fag in the open air somewhere, the smoky odours would have had a chance to dissipate somewhat.

[denachtenmai]

Sangster international airport (MBJ) has a smoking bar after check in, go to the right at the top of the escalator and past the food bars, you do have to buy a drink and they will supply a light because all lighters/matches will be confiscated at the control point.
Note to self, pack expensive pipe lighter in hold luggage :{
Regards, Den.

[JonF]

BKK definitely has smoking areas scattered around the place, passed them myself last Friday

[mrmrsmith2]

denachtenmai

I have never had a lighter taken from me at security, I always expect them to be taken off me , but so far they never have.

[Tableview]

If AMS has a smoking area inside, why do all the addicts go outside and stand polluting the Plaza with their fumes and fag-ends? It's quite horrible to have to walk through all that.

I have nothing against people smoking but I don't want to be obliged to share the filthy residue of their addiction.

[ZFT]

I have never had a lighter taken from me at security, I always expect them to be taken off me , but so far they never have.

We could probably start another thread on this topic alone!

Beware these airports that do take away lighters. Cairo and Clark this year

[pppdrive]

Beijing most certainly take lighters/matches from you at security. Thought I'd manged when they took one off me, but they found the second one I had also. In the smoking area (gate 19) I only found one person who had a lighter with him, all other passengers had theirs taken at security.

[Rush2112]

Flew back from Medan recently, waiting at the gate and the security guard was having a smoke while leaning against the wall, above his head a "no smoking" sign. Splendid.

[cedgz]

punta cana has a nice bar with a terrasse with a niece view on the airplanes:), and you can smoke there. it's also the only airport where they took my lighter at security:mad:, but the bar has a lighter ;)

[Alsacienne]

There is nowhere to smoke at BSL, neither landside nor airside. Same situation in both French and Swiss sectors, so make sure you take your last puffs on the kerbside before entering the terminal!

[cedgz]

ory their was in terminal south and cdg also(terminal where you take cityjet on behalf of air france to dublin, forgot terminal but 2 something and on the airside)

[MakeItHappenCaptain]

Ahmedabad, India, takes your lighters. Probably so you don't accidentally incinerate yourself after their refuellers have sprayed 40L of Jet A-1 through your plane by turning the pressure nozzle into the ferry tanks full on instead of off.

"It's OK sah....we just open the doors and put a fan in there, the smell will be gone in half an hour......"

FCUKiNG IMBECILES.:mad:

This was after,
"No sah, your engineer cannot be allowed to do the refuelling. (We have to be the ones to fcuk it up.)"

[ExXB]

There is nowhere to smoke at BSL, neither landside nor airside. Same situation in both French and Swiss sectors, so make sure you take your last puffs on the kerbside before entering the terminal!

How very unSwiss of them: WRS | Dateline CH: Top nation in tobacco smuggling (http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/dateline_ch/dateline-ch-mar-29.shtml?29884)

[BEC176]

India takes everything it can. Even from the crews on private aircraft.

[pppdrive]

Auckland has a smoking area in departures (closes at 22.30 nightly) top of escalator, turn right and follow corridor to outside area.

[PositiveClimbGearUp]

Newcastle (NCL) has a 'outdoor' smoking area at the rear of one of the airside bars. You have to buy a drink of course.

There are signs outside the terminal advertising this, and also stating the airport plans to open more smoking areas airside.

In Oz, I believe there are no airside smoking facilities at MEL, SYD or PER, but would welcome confirmation.

[EEngr]

Where they'll have to park the 787s. ;)

[10bob]

Further to the above, I quite like the outdoor terrace at Changi, Singapore. Was there only yesterday :ok:

Outside of the UK, quite a few airports cater to the evil weed. From memory, I can remember the following (I have been to all of the below in the last couple of years, so can vouch for them).

Europe

All the German airports I've been to have the little cabins (Frankfurt, Munich, Dusseldorf). As do quite a few other European airports (Schipol, Warsaw, Prague to name 3). Unfortunately, Krakow doesn't (and I went there a lot last year!)

Middle East

Dubai has some nice, Winston sponsored smoking rooms airside, spread throughout the terminal.

The BA Lounge had one at Oman, but didn't see any outside of the lounge in departures.

I transferred through Doha and the dedicated Qatar transfer lounge had smoking rooms that were actually very pleasant.

CIS

Moscow (DME) has a dingy smoking area - but if you have access, the BA lounge has a (slightly) nicer one. The one thing I do like about DME is they have a dingy smoking room in the baggage collection area whilst you wait for the bags to appear on the belt! Further afield, there is a small cabin available to all at St Petersburg, Almaty (Kazakhstan) and Tblisi (Georgia).

Asia

In addition to Changi, Hong Kong and Bangkok also have smoking areas. I don't remember smoking areas in either Mumbai or Hyderabad. Couple that with India's way too frequent "dry days" makes India a "must-avoid" destination for those who love red wine and nicotine before departure...

USA

Little more bleak, here. Nothing in any of the NYC airports, Vegas, LA or San Francisco. A little while back I was pleasantly surprised to find a smoking area in Washington DC (Dulles), opposite the United lounge, but suspect that will have closed now.

[Tableview]

No smoking in airports and most other public places in Russia w.e.f 01 JUN.

[10bob]

No smoking in airports and most other public places in Russia w.e.f 01 JUN.

Then I'm officially taking Russia off my travel list w.e.f 31 May. There are no redeeming features left. :)

[500 above]

Others that have smoking booths/rooms:

Pafos (an outdoor bar/viewing area)
Hannover
Baku
Beirut (Bar)
Lanseria (outdoor bar/viewing area)
Zurich