Airports with Smoking Areas Airside

[Butts]

Although this is probably a minority interest these days I thought it may be useful to any other smokers

In the UK:

Aberdeen - PAYE (£1) but most people knock the door and someone lets them in.

Birmingham - ( Currently closed during the refurbishment ?)

Cardiff - Free

East Midlands - Free

Newcastle -Free

Manchester - Free (Not all terminals)

Heathrow - Terminal 4 ? - Are there any others

Glasgow and Edinburgh - None

Gatwick - None

Belfast City - None

Stansted - None

Luton - None


Feel free to update or add Airports not mentioned !!

 

[D2007wsm]

Bristol has a small outdoor area next to Gate 4 I believe which is free

 

[stuart100100]

Liverpool had a free one last time I used it a couple of years ago, and their website suggests it's still there

Where can I smoke at the airport?

Welcome to Liverpool John Lennon Airport, connecting Liverpool with the world. Click here for Liverpool flight information & get your parking booked today.

www.liverpoolairport.com

 

[Butts]

Liverpool had a free one last time I used it a couple of years ago, and their website suggests it's still there

Where can I smoke at the airport?

Welcome to Liverpool John Lennon Airport, connecting Liverpool with the world. Click here for Liverpool flight information & get your parking booked today.

www.liverpoolairport.com

Have used that myself in the past, glad to hear it's still there.

 

[Caboose Class]

The "outdoor cages" at UK airports are an utter disgrace when compared with the dedicated smoking lounges (often with free cigarettes on offer) found at major international airports. For a full list of airports worldwide where smoking is permitted see https://airportsmokers.com/

 

[Butts]

The "outdoor cages" at UK airports are an utter disgrace when compared with the dedicated smoking lounges (often with free cigarettes on offer) found at major international airports. For a full list of airports worldwide where smoking is permitted see https://airportsmokers.com/

Never come across that - whereabouts ?

 

[Caboose Class]

Never come across that - whereabouts ?

Frankfurt, Schipol and Changi spring to mind. Changi also has a swimming pool which passengers can use whist in transit.

 

[Bletchleyite]

The "outdoor cages" at UK airports are an utter disgrace when compared with the dedicated smoking lounges (often with free cigarettes on offer) found at major international airports. For a full list of airports worldwide where smoking is permitted see https://airportsmokers.com/

English law does not allow indoor smoking lounges.

 

[Butts]

Frankfurt, Schipol and Changi spring to mind. Changi also has a swimming pool which passengers can use whist in transit.

Are you allowed to smoke in the swimming pool ?

English law does not allow indoor smoking lounges.

Mores the pity (for smokers)

 

[Brooke]

Frankfurt, Schipol and Changi spring to mind. Changi also has a swimming pool which passengers can use whist in transit.

Schiphol one is good - you can have a beer and a smoke there while waiting for your flights gate to come up. Geneva is another with an indoor lounge. Zurich also if it’s still there?

 

[Aictos]

Schiphol one is good - you can have a beer and a smoke there while waiting for your flights gate to come up. Geneva is another with an indoor lounge. Zurich also if it’s still there?

Was there last year and I never knew that, is it open to in transit passengers?

 

[Brooke]

Was there last year and I never knew that, is it open to in transit passengers?

Schiphol? I’ve used it in the past for transiting, but I’ve not been to it post-Covid.

edit - just found this link, which implies it might not be open since last year: https://news.schiphol.com/schiphol-terminal-to-become-entirely-smoke-free-from-april/

Hopefully one of the other freq fliers on this forum can advise the current situation.

 

[Butts]

Schiphol? I’ve used it in the past for transiting, but I’ve not been to it post-Covid.

edit - just found this link, which implies it might not be open since last year: https://news.schiphol.com/schiphol-terminal-to-become-entirely-smoke-free-from-april/

Hopefully one of the other freq fliers on this forum can advise the current situation.

They used to have the "telephone box" booths at one time - not been for a few years.

Luxembourg ditched them and went smoke free when it was refurbished a few years ago.

 

[TravelDream]

Frankfurt, Schipol and Changi spring to mind. Changi also has a swimming pool which passengers can use whist in transit.

Partially true. The airside hotel has a swimming pool which guests can use when in transit. Others in transit (or just departing) can use it for a fairly heft charge (over £10 from memory).
I must say I have never seen free cigarettes in a smoking area there either. The government is pretty strongly anti-smoke so I can't see it.

 

[Butts]

Birmingham Airports area not reopened yet, indeed in half the Airport all the retail outlets are completely closed - Gates 1-20 Area where my Easyjet Flight to Edinburgh departed from this Morning.

 

[stuu]

Partially true. The airside hotel has a swimming pool which guests can use when in transit. Others in transit (or just departing) can use it for a fairly heft charge (over £10 from memory).
I must say I have never seen free cigarettes in a smoking area there either. The government is pretty strongly anti-smoke so I can't see it.

I haven't been to Changi for ~10 years but there definitely used to be a swimming pool which was a nominal fee to use, upstairs in one of the terminals and nothing to do with any hotel. There was a bar alongside which I have sat at a couple of times

 

[317666]

Cologne/Bonn has one, and Munich did when I last flew from there in 2018.

 

[Puppetfinger]

Most Scandinavian airports have numerous smoking booths that are free to use.

I'm not a smoker but have travelled through there a lot with friends and colleagues who do partake, and I was impressed with the set up, own A/C or ventilation, and walking around the outside if it, you did not smell anything, even when the door was opened.

I like places being smoke free as a non smoker, but I find it crazy that we can't have a similar facility in the UK at indoor public venues.

 

[TravelDream]

I haven't been to Changi for ~10 years but there definitely used to be a swimming pool which was a nominal fee to use, upstairs in one of the terminals and nothing to do with any hotel. There was a bar alongside which I have sat at a couple of times

It's definitely located in the airside hotel Aerotel in terminal 1. I just Googled it and the current entrance fee for non-guests is 17 SGD which is £9.20 and that's for a maximum of three hours.
There is a bar there too.
You must has misremembered because it's always been a part of the airside hotel, but also open to the public for a fee.

 

[stuu]

It's definitely located in the airside hotel Aerotel in terminal 1. I just Googled it and the current entrance fee for non-guests is 17 SGD which is £9.20 and that's for a maximum of three hours.
There is a bar there too.
You must has misremembered because it's always been a part of the airside hotel, but also open to the public for a fee.

Entirely likely, as I said it's been a long time since I was there. You definitely didn't need to go through the hotel to get to the bar/pool in the past though, it wasn't (to my recollection) obviously related to the hotel, and the price was a couple of S$ or something.

Regardless, sitting by a pool having a cold beer is a very civilised way to wait for a flight, and not something you can do in many other airports.

I did once go to the Maldives and needed to catch a seaplane from the airport, which involved sitting in a bamboo hut with your feet in the sand/sea and free cocktails whilst waiting for your plane to arrive. That is the way to travel