Geneva Airport customer review
B Murton
Geneva airport staff is extremely reluctant to speak English. When approached in English they consistently reply in French. When asked to speak English they produce one sentence in English an immediately continue in French again. I find this unprofessional especially for an airport.
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Geneva Airport customer review
Matt Ray
Geneva airport reminds me of Las Vegas airport. I think it is just the tunnel with the moving walkway and glitzy advertisements and bright lights and such but it just really did. The airport is nice landside but once you get near your gates there is not much else there so bear that in mind. That said that Baboo seating area is very nice.
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Geneva Airport customer review
Paul Turner
Arrival from East Midlands on 1st September was quick and was only marred by a couple of the lengthy moving walkways being out of service. Departure was another matter. All the catering facilities are before security and without knowing how long that will take to negotiate we went through security only to find a departure "lounge" serving 4 gates. There was seating for about 100 with well over 500 people waiting to leave. It was a shambles.
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Geneva Airport customer review
K Popkens
Easy well organised public transport from/to the city. Friendly staff clean interior. Check in / security/gate taken 12 mins only - maybe lucky on that Sunday noon the airport was very silent. Well priced duty free less well priced cafes and all accepted euros.
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Geneva Airport customer review
H Albright
All arriving passengers now receive a free Geneva transport ticket good for 80 minutes on the train bus and tram network. This covers the entire canton of Geneva. The machine for the tickets is in the baggage hall next to the left-most green channel. Just press the button and take your ticket. You will also need to present and air ticket or boarding pass with the day's date if your ticket is checked by an inspector.
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Geneva Airport customer review
David Lloyd
Geneva Airport has to be one of the most badly signposted airports if you want to go directly into France. Had I not asked a fellow passenger who travelled there frequently I would have never found the way. The instructions on the airport web site are not correct! Returning the check in desk in the French area wasn't labelled so I had to ask. Poor signposting from their to the departures area and an immovable glass door between until you realise there's a tiny button to press. Customs then let you through at their leisure. When you eventually find your way to the departure area you can't proceed through security until your gate is showing. The shops meanwhile are expensive and the seating are hard to find. Security takes at least 20 minutes and then there aren't enough seats at the gates. Not recommended.
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Geneva Airport customer review
D Gyton
My partner & I had the misfortune of travelling through Geneva airport on 10 March. Inbound no issues & would agree with comments elsewhere re easy access to the rail network etc. Travelling home was a very different story the lounges are not airside of security & there was no indication of the length of time to get through the security checks. So we were called for the flight and then faced with just two open security channels and very long queues. Other customers waiting indicated this was often the case & no effort ever made on the part of the airport authority to improve things. There was no effort on the part of the staff to speed things along and their attitude was simply one of why should we care. We did make the flight I believe only as result of BA being prepared to wait and we were not the last on board. Overall a very unpleasant experience
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Geneva Airport customer review
Anne Kenwright
Avoid Geneva airport on Saturdays in the ski season unless perhaps you travel by scheduled flight; on the way in there was a problem with baggage that took almost 2 hours to unload. boots and skis did not arrive - it transpired that they were actually at Geneva but could not be found - eventually arrived in resort on Thursday. Inghams rep told us that there were often luggage problems and some lost/delayed nearly every week. On journey home terrible queues for security - so bad many had to be sent through different gates (very much worse than Gatwick but can't comment on Heathrow) and after boarding we waited for at least an hour on the tarmac for baggage to be loaded - we were told one vanload had gone astray. There seems to be a new charter terminal that only opens weekends and quite clearly cannot cope with the volume of traffic; maybe it will be better next winter
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Geneva Airport customer review
Sebastien Morard
One exits usually directly in the terminal even with budget flights short walks in quiet corridors with travelators non-fussy passport controls and direct connexions (and now free: free ticket delivery just after the luggage belts) by train to the city center (train/bus 5/10 make virtually all important conference venues and hotels reached in 10 to 15 minutes). The only drawback may be the baggage handling which is slower than for example in Zurich. But this is largely compensated by the short distance to town. Departing from GVA is a bit less enjoyable - not agreeable on saturday : long queues expensive shops that are too rarely open and small (especially the duty free shop right after the passport control). Airside zone A is very modern. zone B seems to be reserved to easyjet and charter flight so it is often crowded and lacks shopping facilities. And the french side is a nonsense: use it only if you arrive from France and rented a car with a french agency or if need to avoid Switzerland for visa reasons. The only advice would be to better manage peak times learn proper english and scrap the french side to add some space and shops.
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Geneva Airport customer review
Alexandre Glauser
Geneva is a very pleasant and efficient facility and there is very easy access to the train station. Loads of shops/cafes in the main terminal or at the railway station. Selection is more limited airside but this will change soon as the airport is being expanded. The negative comments below refer to the times when flights from all over Europe converge to Geneva bringing thousand of skiers heading for the nearby ski resorts. On these days it is true that the airport is stretched to limits and facilities inadequate for the number of people visiting the airport.
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