Belgrade Airport

Totally agree with M Scott but would like to add that annoying thing is that coffee shop did not accept Euros only Serbian Dinar - still can't believe I couldn't buy newspapers airside. The good thing is kids room where kids can play and leather lounges are very confortable.

The airport looks modern and clean but its facilities are very poor particularly airside. There is nowhere to buy a newspaper or magazine few places to eat and even fewer places to sit. Perhaps it's an attempt to make you spend time in the duty-free shops which are well- stocked but charge rip-off prices for everything (two or three times what a supermarket in the UK would charge). Smoking is permitted in the terminal building and it can be difficult to find a place to sit or eat that is not smoky. Public transport to and from the city is limited to a single bus once an hour (on the hour taking about 40 minutes in each direction). My advice would be to check in online where possible and spend as little time in this aiport as you can.

Used the airport this morning on BA to Heathrow. The main gripe I had was the lack of an airside currency exchange counter. There is an exchange on the ground floor by the check-in desks and one upstairs in the Raffiesen Bank by passport control but I decided to keep my local currency for a bit of shopping on the other side of immigration. However there is only an automatic exchange machine which wasn't working. The lady at the information desk agreed that it doesn't make sense not to have one airside. I think the duty free shop does accept Euros but the smaller shops and the cafes do not. The other main omission was no proper restaurant facilities. There were a number of cafes which served sandwiches cakes and other snacks but no "restaurant". Aside from those points it was an acceptable airport for its type.

I was in Belgrade in October. The airport is very clean and staff very friendly. It's a little bit small but there is a very good bus connection to the city. Also there are enough taxi cars and you can rent a car too. I wish this airport will be expanded.

Smart modern looking airport but poor facilities for shopping eating and drinking. What's more many of the shops were closed - and this in the middle of the day. My advice is not to go to departures too early and certainly do not go to the gate (and security) until the last minute or you will be stuck in a drab room with little seating and no facilities at all. You need to get rid of Serbian currency before leaving the country because you can't get it exchanged outside Serbia but there are no exchange facilities at the airport! Presumably this is to ensure that people spend any excess money at the airport.

I use Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport from time-to-time. I am pleased about the new minibus service that takes passengers to major hotels in the city (Hyatt Continental and Slavia). Duty Free shopping has improved but is still not up to the standards of its counterparts in Prague and Budapest a new fashion store Serbian souvenir store and expanded duty free store are currently on offer to passengers. However ground and immigration staff still need to improve on customer service and must give away their old mentality of having coffee breaks every hour. Despite the improvements I will only award it with 3 stars.

I used Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport for the first time since my last visit in 2004. The arrival hall and the whole airside area haven't changed much but the new departure terminal (which is actually an extension to the old building) is nice. I have never had a problem with Serbian immigration and also this time it was totally painless and fast. What I did not like were the illegal cab drivers lurking around the arrival hall and the bus stop outside I had a hard time getting rid of them while waiting for the Jat bus; this seems to be a problem only on the lower level when you exit customs if you walk one floor up to the main taxi line things seem much improved; I think the airport management should definitely do something to solve the cab mafia issue permanently.

Airport is looking better now after reconstruction but smoking should be restricted on smoking areas signs "NO SMOKING" should be more visible. Airport staff need to learn more about service and polite passenger handling especially passport control stuff. Area is missing some quality restaurants and more tax free shops. Time table for bus connections to the town Belgrade and other major cities should be available on web site as well as at information desk.

After experiencing a 6-hour delay here recently on a flight to LHR with British Airways (incoming flight forced to turn back en route due to technical fault followed by a changeover to a different machine) I have mixed experiences of Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport. The recent renovation has clearly worked wonders at least compared with previous reviews; the seats are reasonably comfortable food and drink is available to an adequate extent and the air is even fairly breathable compared with the rest of Serbia (at least until you get within 100 metres of one of the designated smoking areas); on the other hand the thoroughly intimidating security and passport control staff will make you feel guilty for having even the slightest scrap of local currency left on you by the time you're airside and if you do suffer an extensive delay then you can expect to endure the Serbian concept of "information" - i.e. repeatedly extending the ETA of the incoming plane then claiming that the estimated departure is in fact the time "at which more information will be provided" said information turning out to be that... more information will be provided in an hour's time. By the end of it all I felt not only thoroughly drained but thoroughly sorry for the BA representative an efficient young man who was clearly only trying to do his best in an all-encompassing fug of misinformation and customer anger. Nevertheless I can't help thinking that better complimentary food/drink could have been provided than at the optimistically named "Boeing" café where a dry sandwich swiftly imported from landside and a soft drink were supposed to sustain us for a quarter of a day. Needless to say obtaining a Serbian beer at BA's expense was out of the question despite the fact that the decidedly passable local brew actually cost less than the Coca-Cola the overworked chef-cum-waiter had been authorised to dole out en masse. Still as extensive delays go one of the more uneventful I've experienced - which I think serves as roundabout praise for the new airport!

The airport is now almost up-to-date in both arrival and departure hall. Looks spacious and modern. Note - if you wish to exchange money there is place to do this in the arrival hall - you must take the escalator up to departure hall. JAT airport bus leaves to city centre every hour - ie 20.00 21.00.