izmir airport to izmir furniture shops

tilly39 · 21st May 2010, 19:49

hi can anyone tell me how long by car it will take us to get from izmir airport to the big furniture shops in izmir .
many thanks

de1amo · 21st May 2010, 20:16

the main road from the airport to the city takes you through lots of turkish furniture shops--ikea is over in bornova and i know there is a ring road from alsancak -so about 45 minutes from the airport

tilly39 · 21st May 2010, 20:34

thankyou for your reply, we wasnt worrid about going to ikea, but we had heard there are some brilliant furniture shops in izmir, so we was going to visit the shops when we arrive at izmir airport.
i understand its a huge city, so will try and look at googling it.

SonnyJim · 22nd May 2010, 05:39

Where do you live? We made several trips to Izmir for furniture, apart from Ikea, we ended up buying everything relatively locally.

We were very disappointed with the big furniture centre close to Izmir airport.

de1amo · 22nd May 2010, 07:58

i dont like the turkish styled furniture and its very expensive--its heavy old stuff and not modern in style--we live in izmir and my wife has never wanted to go to that area--plus there is a lot of crime there so be careful where you park

teosgirl · 22nd May 2010, 10:05

Tilly,

The best place near the airport for furniture (if you have to buy several items) is kisikkoy. It's a large industrial furniture making village with show rooms. You can park up (for free) and walk around all the different shops.
To get there leave the airport and you should come to roundabout, you want to head towards AYDIN or KUSADASI and continue driving for approx 10 mins, this will bring you to a smaller roundabout and on the right hand side you'll see what looks like an industrial area, called kisikkoy, there's a large metal sign.

You can purchase everything here, right down to coffee tables and up to self designed bedroom furniture. We had our lounge sofa made to our own specs, width, length colours...you can choose everything your self if you don't see what you want ( a friend also had a drinks cabinet made in the style/colour/design she wanted)

KISIKKÖY MOBÝLYA ÞEHRÝ

Make sure you barter on the price, you can negotiate here. If this sounds too much just drive down to gazemir, there's several furniture shops along the very long main road.

Good luck,

Charlotte

RedBloodedHound · 22nd May 2010, 10:07

20 mins to Konak, a few more mins to Ikea; but Ikea is more expensive here than UK.

Robin