Services at Chisinau Airport
Find out what services and facilities are available at Chisinau Airport. Where is the best place to eat and where to shop?
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Internet and wi-fi
Unlimited free wi-fi is available throughout the airport.
If you use an EU country sim card, you can make calls and use data in Moldova at the same prices as in your home country.
Otherwise, get a Moldovan data e-sim quickly and easily on the web airalo.com.
Luggage storage
Luggage storage and automatic lockers do not work at the airport.
Catering options
The airport offers plenty of restaurants and snacks. Dining is available in the public area and after security.
Several restaurants are open 24/7
- Green Café - public area of the arrivals hall
- Golden Jet - transit area
- Plai (Moldovan cuisine) - public area of the departure lounge
Shops and supermarket
Shopping options are very limited and there are only two duty free shops at the airport.
There is no grocery store at the airport.
The Linella supermarket (daily 8-23) is located 1 km from the airport by the motorway (can also be reached by footpath).
There is a pharmacy on the 1st floor of the departure terminal (public area) (8-17).
ATMs and exchange offices
There are two ATMs in the main hall (public area).
There is also a branch of Moldova Agroindbank, which also acts as an exchange office with fairly good exchange rates (open 24/7).
Travelling with children
In the public and transit part there is a very nicely arranged room for parents with small children. There is a microwave for heating baby food, drinking water, a changing table by the comfortable chairs.
After the security check, bigger children will enjoy the fun in the playground.
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So after arrival just opposite the exit, simka with 20gb of data for 39 lei :D next to the exchange office, exchange rate for the euro 17,50, whereas in the center for 19,6. We only exchanged 5 euro to pay for the bus to the city and the sim card.
SIM cards can also be bought in the city in newsagents. But the easiest way is to download the Orange app and buy an eSIM.
The best exchange rates are probably at the exchange offices near the market.
Otherwise, there's no need to change anything on the trolleybus, you can pay by card on this particular line.
The duty-free shops are pretty good, especially the part with Moldovan products. You can still find pretty cheap Moldovan wine there, see the e-shop. https://dutyfree.md/ They just don't have anything from Milestii Mici, oddly enough.
In Moldova, "roam like at home" is definitely not yet in effect, as stated in the text, you can expect expensive roaming with a Czech sim card. Anyway, you can get a local Orange SIM with 140 GB of data at the airport for a ridiculous 49 lei.
The author must have read last year's promises somewhere and succumbed to optimism. It's still a work in progress and maybe this year...?
I've written this elsewhere, so I'll repeat myself: Orange eSIM can be bought upfront in their app for the same ridiculous price.
Otherwise, I wonder when the EU roaming nonsense will finally disappear from the text, actually the opposite - when it will finally become true. 😂
I don't know if the operator of the duty free at the airport has changed, it's undergoing a semi-repair, the original duty free website is down. Otherwise, the prices of local produce are not great, everything is more expensive than in the shops in the city and even 2-3 times! A 5 year old Kvint for 0,5l for 11 EUR. I bought the same one in the shop in town for 100 MDL, which is less than half. Wines that cost 45 MDL in Milestii Mici cost 5-6 EUR in duty free. They even charge 1 EUR for a bag (ugly black one like for garbage), of course the price is not written anywhere and they like to pack every bottle in an extra bag 😀 BTW at security they don't want to pull liquids at all, so theoretically some bottle could pass, but I haven't tried it.
Well, that's very sad.