Gate area in Terminal 1 means WHSmith is your last-minute stop
In Terminal 1 at OTP, WHSmith sits airside after security, so you can grab basics without backtracking toward check-in. It’s a standard travel shop format: books, drinks, snacks, and small travel gear packed into a compact footprint. Expect airport pricing rather than city-center deals, but it beats hunting through multiple kiosks when your boarding time is under 40 minutes.
Opening hours track the main flight banks, roughly from early morning departures around 04:00 until late-night rotations after 22:00, though exact times shift with the schedule. You’ll find bottled water, soft drinks, and grab-and-go sweets in the same fridges, which keeps a quick stop under five minutes. If you skipped the supermarket in town, this is where you pay the airport premium for basics like 500 ml water and packaged nuts.
On the book and magazine side, WHSmith carries English-language titles alongside Romanian newspapers, usually a mix of current bestsellers and travel-friendly paperbacks. Prices sit in line with other European airport bookshops, so don’t expect big discounts on a 50–80 RON novel. Stationery and tech odds and ends—pens, charging cables, travel adaptors—sit near the till, useful if your USB-C cable died on the bus from Gara de Nord.
Practical tip: stop here for water and reading material immediately after security in Terminal 1, so you’re not stuck at a far gate with only a vending machine and 20 minutes to boarding.