Dubai Airport

Security lines are simply too long and exhausting when you have 3 kids and bags to stand for 38 mins waiting. Security guards do not need to be friendly but simple basic courtesy is lacking. Counter staff don't go out of their way to give you the information you need. Not enough seats for passengers on transit - sitting on dirty floors with kids is just unacceptable. Whatever plus points are earned flying emirates are lost with the airport experience.

This must be one of the worst airports. I travel regularly it is inevitable I stop at Dubai for transit - or when the wait is over 8 hours go out to one of their hotels. You walk a lot when arriving because signs/indications are not clear the info desk staff are useless unfriendly and at times plain arrogant. The space where you walk is narrow and the place simply overcrowded. Security staff are impolite and unfriendly. The queues are too long and procedures redundant.

Flight from Dublin to Jakarta stop at Dubai. The plane taxied for ages boarded a bus and took about 10 minutes to arrive at airport. There was long queues for security screening. If you don't allow enough time for your transfer flight you may miss your second flight. 1.5 hours is minimum. The airport is very busy the walk way is narrow and people bumping each other in shopping area. There are no good seating areas until your gate is ready to board.

Over crowded queuing in transit security check. On the other hand once through security - good duty free area. If you have emirates silver/gold card it makes the stay even better with access to the business class lounge! Overall airport and toilets are pretty clean.

I like the service on Emirates flights to and from Asia to UK however every time I dread the transfer at Dubai. Sometimes the walk to the nearest transfer security check feels like a mile. Queues for security are far too long for transfer passengers there is no fast track for first or business passengers - pay a fortune for a first class ticket take part in a scrummage as part of the experience. The signage within the airport is not too good and yes it is always a busy airport. First class lounge is very good though plenty of space free spa facilities good food. Duty free is expensive.

When transiting at DXB if you're unlucky enough to arrive at one of the busy times (early morning in particular) you'll face a significant wait for security checks. This problem pales into insignificance though when compared with the biggest issue: the utter inadequacy of the bathrooms in the concourse area. I've seen lines of 15-20 men waiting outside the bathroom with another 10 inside. If on a short layover at DXB go straight to the gate and there is likely to be a much quieter bathroom there. Of course this is no help to people on 4hr+ layovers who have to wait until the gate opens. Fix this one issue and it would be a decent layover option rather than one I dread.

Huge departure hall with bag drops crammed into corners. No one at e-check in to help. Waited ages to bag drop one man vaguely calling the latest flight people forward - people arriving far too early for flights! Security is painfully slow Emirates staff have no sense of urgency. Upstairs in shopping area - busy crammed. Gates small nothing special. Signs confusing. Really very disappointed. I would put on a level with Heathrow rather than HKG or even BKK airport.

Arrived on Emirates A380 for two hour transit in early hours of the morning. Long walk from gate to security then a long and disorganised queue for screening. Once through security there were thousands of people milling around in the narrow overcrowded shopping area. So many people that it was difficult to walk without stopping and starting to avoid people. Not enough seats and far far too few restrooms. The restrooms which do exist are too small. I don't think I have ever seen a long queue to enter male restrooms at any other airport. Lack of space seems to be a recurrent feature which is surprising given that it is very new and supposed to be the second largest building in the world.

Arrived at 00.30 by A380 and was astonished to see overcrowding at transit security with queues backing right up against two sets of elevator doors (obviously people arriving upstairs by lift rather than escalator could hardly get out into the security area). After about ten minutes another security gate was opened and the previous chaos began to settle down. Then checked out prices at the duty free shop I had UK high street prices incl. VAT with me for comparison of five different cameras (five different brands). All were cheaper at retail stores in the UK.

Airport is very confusing and staff not helpful or friendly. Was stuck at the airport for a good 9 hours due to a transfer from Dubai to Munich. Experience was not good at all. Was not very impressed. Certainly will not stay longer than I have to again.