Bournemouth Airport

Apart from the car parking costs Bournemouth is a great airport. No rows and rows of shops trying to rip you off a 10min walk from the car park and a 5 min walk to the plane. If you want to have a meal and do some shopping before the flight forget it but if you want to have a stress free time at the airport its perfect. Just hope the improvements dont spoil it.

Car parking at Bournemouth International Airport has now gone up to fifty-two pounds a week so it's lucky that locals in Ringwood are offering airport users the chance to park in their drives as part of the park at my house scheme. At the moment the Arrivals Hall is just a waiting room with no magazines and a vending machine and a single screen showing the arrivals but it's all full of "rustic charm" as they say and the really positive thing is that as soon as a plane has landed the passengers without luggage are straight out and ready for home. All in all I think it's a great airport very low key and relaxed and friendly.

Yes there is now a link bus it stops at the taxi rank outside the Arrivals at Bournemouth Airport and it goes to Bournemouth town centre every 30 minutes during the day. It calls itself a shuttle but it isn't free. You're right - the airport isn't on the main route to anywhere being in the village of Hurn as it is. I give people a lift to the airport when they park at my house in Ringwood because the taxis are about twenty pounds and there is not a bus!

I was fortunate enough to be given a lift back to the airport for my late flight last night although next week that won't happen and I'll have to find my own way from the train station to the airport as the bus service finishes at 19:00. Taxi fares are quoted at £14 which is more expensive than my flight! Can anyone with local knowledge suggest a means of public transport to get from station to airport? I've found a bus that takes me closish (Parley Cross) but this will still involve a 2.5 mile walk! It looks like transport links are an issue for the airport - perhaps there aren't enough evening flights to warrant a bus service? The airport itself is obviously undergoing a major redevelopment at the moment and I'm sure it will be fantastic once completed.. I can imagine that the departure lounge can get crammed during busy times but it was fine last night. I did witness a minor flare-up between despatch staff and crew from another Ryanair plane that had been sat on stand for a while so maybe the comment about the inability of the airport to cope with more than two planes is true! Security staff were fine and facilities just about adequate. Can't imagine what it must be like in the summer season!

I park at Bournemouth every week and feel ripped off with the excessive car parking charges.£42 for 4 days.

Passed through Bournemouth on way from Dublin to Edinburgh. I couldn't quite conceive how small it was but I see construction is well on the way. However the longer I stayed there the more fond I became. There is no-one really about it is quiet. Security I see has been mentioned before and the problem may have been rectified as I had two elderly men steer me through who seemed very friendly and chatty. The duty-free shop is truly hilarious like a police seized goods room of shelves. Very happy to see (if old and tatty) comfy seats with no armrests. I took much pleasure in spreading out for a kip and to read my books. Glasgow flight went Edinburgh one touched down a tad late. Friendly and personal Servisair ladies were refreshing and our plane departed with only 22 people on board.