Dalaman Airport, Turkey (DLM)

Arrived back this morning after a very pleasent week. However, Dalaman airport left a dreadful taste in our mouths, it made the WH Smiths of Gatwick look a bargain. We arrived at the airport 3 hours before our flight was scheduled, and jee do we wish we had brought things with us. I have been researching why it is such a barbaric rip off (The cheapest thing in the airport is for 4.60YLT....a small bottle of water!) KFC, Mcdonald's, Pizza Hut...god knows how it gets any business. We brought a soft drink from the KFC, and after paying in excess of 8YTL for it, it was not even filled to the rim and was not cold, quite frankly an utter joke. No one ...  Read the complete review

This is the first time we have visited turkey for a holiday, the passage through the airport to gocek was fairly pleasant and trouble free.
On our return to Dalaman airport for our return home we were greeted by unfriendly/unhelpful /rude, and ignorant check in staff who charged us £30 for being 3 kilo overweight each on our suit cases.
We have travelled all over Europe nearly every year for 29 years in many airports and never once been charged even though sometimes we knew we were over our baggage allowance.
We then moved into the waiting area before moving to our departure gate to be greeted by other British passengers complaining about the overpricing of the food and drink.
£20 for pizza
£10 for burger
£5 for drinks
never use this airport if you can when visiting turkey.

I have just recently (very recently, still got a tan) arrived back from Dalaman airport, Turkey. In my opinion the airport was absolutely fine and had everything i required. When arriving from the UK getting a visa was quick and easy (although you do have to pay £10 for entry into the country) The toilets were kept very clean and our baggage was already going round the belt by the time we got down the escalators. On the return journey, you can browse round duty free...they have more brands of cigarettes and perfume than in the supermarkets of Turkey (and obviously are cheaper still), the whole place was very clean and it was air conditioned. There was quite a queue ...  Read the complete review

will never fly to/from this airport again. it has to be one of the most unorganised hectic places i have ever flown to/from. there is absolutely no organisation when you are checking in the desks seem to change every 15 minutes and you are swapping queues constantly. after you pass that part of what can only be described as an assault course yo pass through in to the departure lounge. there is nothing here. it has to be the narrowest duty free in the world i have not experienced anything like it and i am a frequent flyer and have travelled many places. oh and a word of caution fill up on food before arriving at the airport because if you get hungry you are looking at ...  Read the complete review

Oh my god I hope to never have to fly from this airport again! We got there from a 3 hour drive early and starving we thought we would be through check in in no time as we were 2nd in the queue but they finally opened check in we realised they had decided to change our check in desk without telling us and we now were in the queue to go to Birmingham instead of Gatwick. We had to walk to the other end of the building to where there was now a long queue to which we had to get to the back of. Once at check in they tried to charge every one 18 euro's per kg over your luggage allowance me and my partner were about 5kg's over but we had exactly the same stuff that we took out ...  Read the complete review