One of the worst airports to sleep in! (Orio al Serio Bergamo (BGY))

Member Name: dangaroo

Product:	Orio al Serio Bergamo (BGY)
Date:	27/12/08 (94 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Quite close to Lake Garda

Disadvantages: Just about everything

Orio al Serio Bergamo - or more often called Milan-Bergamo is an airport in Northern Italy, located just about 6km from Bergamo and 45km from Milan which takes about 1 hour usually. This is not as extreme as the likes of Paris-Beauvais but it's not exactly central is it! It is however Milan's cheap flight hub and it's also located on the A4 which is the main highway crossing the north of Italy from Milan to Venice and connecting France and Slovenia.

The ticket between airport and Milan is about 8 euros as I recall but this was a few years ago and it may have sneaked up past 10 eur now. The airport itself is pretty small and tacky with very little in the way of things to keep yourself occupied, the seating made from those bad metal grids like the ones at posh bus stops or train stations are incredibly uncomfortable.

We arrived at the airport far too early for our flight, having hitchhiked from France faster than we expected and arrived in Milan some 10 hours before our flight, we decided to go to the airport and sleep over night, this was a bit of a hassle - mainly due to the uncomfortable seating arrangement but then at 1am we and the few other remaining passengers were ushered out of the terminal, marched across a car park in the rain and taken to another building where we could roll out sleeping bags and sleep - they checked our passports and flight details and generally had a strong whiff of authority about them that made them look like little fascists!

2 or 3 hours later, they moved us again back from this building to the now clean main terminal. The early morning flights soon started up and the Italians began drinking coffee and chunnering away - making it possibly the noisiest, smallest and most uncomfortable airport I've ever had the pleasure to sleep in. To add to that - the inconvenient location and lack of decent ammenities makes it a bit of a crap airport all round.

Cheap Flights connect Uk, Germany, Poland, Romania, France and Spain amongst others but if I were you, I'd choose to fly to Bologna instead.

Summary: Expensive and crap