That costs how much?
No traveler expects an airport to have inexpensive foods and drinks options. Even should you skip having a sit-down meal — and as a substitute top off on some snacks and water — irrespective of the way you slice it, you’re not getting out low-cost.
To further prove that time — Istanbul Airport has just been named the costliest airport for food and drinks by Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, as reported by the Mirror.
Turkey’s primary airport has the nerve to charge voyagers $19.95 for a beer and a banana for nearly $7.
For those who ever end up on this European airport — don’t even take into consideration buying the small three-ounce piece of lasagna they’re reportedly charging almost $28 for in keeping with the Italian news website, L’Economia.
To make matters worse, the author said the lasagna didn’t even look price its high price tag: “It looks more like a bit of brick with a sprinkling of what looks like grated cheese and a pseudo-basil leaf.”
Chicken salad? Almost $20. A pleasant little croissant as a pre-flight snack? That may run you between $17 and $20.
One might get excited once they see an American fast-food chain like Popeyes or McDonald’s at this airport — but beware because those prices appear to be just as annoyingly high.
The Italian site also identified that a measly combo meal of 4 fried chicken wings, fries and a Coke costs almost $20. A McDonald’s Big Mac and Double Quarter Pounder costs between $25 and $29.
And leave it to Reddit to hitch the complaints in regards to the wildly high prices on the Istanbul airport. In a r/istanbul subreddit, one poster shared that the high food prices took away from the general airport experience for them.
“The costs are greater than exaggerated, with all respect to Istanbul, they’re ridiculous. They’re from 2 to 4 times higher than at Frankfurt Airport (my airport of reference, I at all times fly out of there),” they shared.
“The terminal is just amazing and luxurious, nevertheless, the costs unfortunately made the experience somewhat worse,” the user added.
“They know people pays. My sister was in Dalaman recently and said two Big Mac meals were around 40 euros.” I used to be within the USA a number of days back and LaGuardia and Orlando MCO were quite reasonable on prices as airports go,” a commenter said in response.
