Services at Sofia Airport
Find out what services and facilities are available at Sofia Airport. Where is the best place to eat and where to shop?
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Internet and wi-fi
Wi-fi is free and unlimited in both terminals. Connect to the "SOF Free Wifi" network.
If you use a sim card from an EU country, you can make calls and use data in Bulgaria for the same prices as in your home country.
Otherwise, get a data e-sim quickly and easily on the web airalo.com.
Shops and minimarket
There are very few shops in the terminals and they are among the worst equipped European airports in their category.
After security check, duty free shops, souvenir, fashion or cosmetics shops, drinks or sweets are available. Prices here are significantly higher than in the city.
In the public and transit areas of both terminals, you can use the RELAY newsagents to buy light refreshments:
- Terminal 1 - transit area, 4:00-23:00
- Terminal 2 - transit zone, 4:00-last departure
- Terminal 2 - public area (arrivals), 4:30-22:00
The pharmacy is open 8:30-19:30 in the public area of Terminal 2.
Dining options
Several cafés, bars and fast food outlets provide refreshments.
- Costa Coffe: café - Terminal 2, public area, 5:00-23:00
- Costa Coffe: café - Terminal 1, public area, 5:00-23:00
- Air Craft: sandwiches, baguettes, café - Terminal 2, transit area, 5:00-23:00
- Eddy's Bakery and Deli: sandwiches, bagels, café - Terminal 2, transit area, 4:00-23:00
- Air Garden: snacks, alcohol, café - Terminal 2, transit zone, open according to flight traffic
- Onda: bakery and café - Terminal 1, transit zone, 4:00 am-last departure
ATMs and exchange offices
Global Finance Trade exchange offices have unfavourable exchange rates.
Choose instead from ATMs located in the arrival halls of both terminals.
- Euronet ATM (Terminal 2) - withdrawal fee approx. 5 bgn and very unfavourable conversion rate
- Postbank ATM (terminals 1, 2) - no withdrawal fee
- ATM OTP (terminal 2) - withdrawal fee 5 bgn
Luggage storage
There is no luggage storage or self-service lockers at Sofia Airport.
You can store your luggage in two public lockers in the centre of Sofia.
- Central Bus Station - open 24/7, price 6 bgn for the whole day
- Automatic lockers at Serdika metro station - open 24/7, price 6,90 bgn for 4 hours + 0,90 bgn for each additional hour
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2 comments
Luggage storage is also available at the train station
These sentences should be deleted, they are not true and the following text refutes them: 'The terminals have very few shops and are among the worst equipped European airports in their category. Only duty free shops are available after security check."
Rather, it will be one of the most expensive, because you can buy water here for a lot more than in Vienna, for example. Beer is already several times more expensive than in the city centre, even in the newsagent's at the metro terminus, and a lot more in the terminal. On the other hand, in Bulgaria crazy prices are standard at other airports as well, so it's not a surprise at all.
Again, the next sentence about Relay doesn't include "In the public area" when it is followed by a list of newsagents both landside and airside. Besides, there are at least two in T2 behind the checkpoint - on the first floor and on the ground floor (there's also a pretty big stoner room opposite).
Otherwise there are many more than one Euronet ATM. In T2 alone, there are several already in front of the airside exit, and more just beyond that. They even seem to be quite popular, but who wants to go where...
At least in T2 there are drinking fountains and also vending machines for drinks and snacks .