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Maria K
1 reviews on 1 places
Forced to travel to and from this airport on a regular basis, so far found nothing pleasant in it. Besides the common services available like in any other airport (WiFi, charging spots and some sits or tables around), none of the terminals has a decent food nor variety of it. After 19:30 you may find everything closed, and as long as some low-coasters are always delayed, you may end up with no even water for couple of hours (one or two of wending machines at the terminal 2 for example are not always working too).
While there is regular cleaning of the bathrooms it’s done quite poorly. And in general it is not very clean around. Together with the “design” of the airport you may feel like at some production factory.
Apparently new airport has some construction ongoing, on the open - not sure it is suitable for people to breathe construction dust from it.
The worst part is their security line, the worst amongst 20-30 other airports I visited, not even comparable. Not always but most of the times you find such a long queue at the security that may spend over an hour and a half there. It’s moving about 3-4 people only every 10 minutes at each “gate”, and even if there are plenty of people waiting they would not open additional ones, half and more would be just closed, maybe due to the lack of personnel. There are up to 9 (!!!) staff at each check line. Usually you don’t find more than 4-5, but this is Berlin. Depends on the mood of the stuff or if you don’t speak German, security stuff will nag a lot on you, humiliate or get you undressed until your under t-shirt, also in winter (happened to an older lady in front of me, they were threatening her with the police and not to let her take the plane - after destroying her bag and making her almost to cry).
An experience you could advise only to some young, strong willed people and with over stable psyche…
While there is regular cleaning of the bathrooms it’s done quite poorly. And in general it is not very clean around. Together with the “design” of the airport you may feel like at some production factory.
Apparently new airport has some construction ongoing, on the open - not sure it is suitable for people to breathe construction dust from it.
The worst part is their security line, the worst amongst 20-30 other airports I visited, not even comparable. Not always but most of the times you find such a long queue at the security that may spend over an hour and a half there. It’s moving about 3-4 people only every 10 minutes at each “gate”, and even if there are plenty of people waiting they would not open additional ones, half and more would be just closed, maybe due to the lack of personnel. There are up to 9 (!!!) staff at each check line. Usually you don’t find more than 4-5, but this is Berlin. Depends on the mood of the stuff or if you don’t speak German, security stuff will nag a lot on you, humiliate or get you undressed until your under t-shirt, also in winter (happened to an older lady in front of me, they were threatening her with the police and not to let her take the plane - after destroying her bag and making her almost to cry).
An experience you could advise only to some young, strong willed people and with over stable psyche…