Gate 200 WHSmith in T1 is your last-minute grab spot
Right by the 200 gates in T1, WHSmith runs daily from 05:00 to 20:00, so it catches most morning and evening departures. It’s a quick in-and-out newsagent style shop: snacks, bottled drinks, magazines, paperbacks, and basic travel bits. Prices run higher than city-centre high street stores, but still below what you’ll see at many duty free shops for the same water and crisps.
This branch focuses on essentials over gifts. Expect standard WHSmith lines: crisps, chocolate bars, mints, gum, ready-to-drink coffee, and a wall of magazines and newspapers. There’s usually a small rack of phone chargers, universal travel adapters, and headphones, plus neck pillows and eye masks. If you forgot a pen or small notebook before a work trip from T1, you can fix that here in under five minutes.
Food-wise, think pre-packed sandwiches, wraps, and pastries that sit in chillers near the entrance. Coffee is basic machine output rather than barista service, so treat it as a caffeine stop, not a café. If your flight from the 200 gates boards around 06:00, this is early enough to grab a sandwich and water for the plane before queues build elsewhere.
Tip: if your boarding pass shows a 200-series gate, stop at this WHSmith before you commit to the gate area; options get thinner the closer you move to the actual doors.