Hurghada Airport

Not Verified | Absolutely appalling airport. Queue up outside for ages waiting to have your passport checked. Security guards will offer you fast track access to the terminal in return for bribes. Once inside wait in a huge queue to go through security to get into the check-in hall. When you get to the front you will be required to remove everything - coats, belts, shoes, wallets, phones etc - which will go through the scanner. Then you may find out that you are in the wrong queue (queues are by gender but there is no indication of which is which) so you'll join another queue while your valuables sit out of sight on the other side of the scanner. Queue to check in as per normal. Make sure you have a pen because you'll need to fill in a form with precisely the same details as are in your passport and on your airline booking record. Queue to go through passport control. Queue to go through security. Same process - shoes, belt, wallet off, except this time there are no tables so you're doing all this on the floor. Queue to have hand baggage searched. Security staff may confiscate random things without explanation (battery packs seem to be popular). Fill in your passport details in a handwritten book. Queue to have your boarding card and passport checked again. If you're leaving from gates 37 or above, queue to have your passport checked again. At the gate have your passport checked again. Occasionally security staff may randomly ask for your passport while you're just waiting in the airport. If you use a toilet, it nay be filthy and the attendant may 'expect' a tip. The 'free' 15 mins of wifi may not work. An utterly dispiriting end to a holiday.

✅ Trip Verified | Scam like practice at the shop near gate no. 42. I was charged nearly 4 pounds for a bottle of coke. This is the highest price ever I have paid for coke bottle anywhere in the world. Airport needs to do something to stop this corrupt practice.

Not Verified | The whole airport is a disgrace. 5 x body and bag checks before I got to my departure gate. Everyone is out to scam you, from the visas on arrival, to the stalls selling water in the departure lounge. Shady characters all over the place. I saw cleaner toilets out in the desert. It really puts me off returning to Hurghada.

Not Verified | Second and last time I will travel to this country. 5 checks for hand luggage, and at the end you have to take off your shoes and take them through the scanner. At the last scanner I had to hand over my 2 lighters that I can normally reuse, which has never happened before in any other airport, but my half-liter bottle of water and large can of sunscreen fit through without any problems, etc. So they take away things that they can sell. Hygiene is also lacking, and how unfriendly. Everything has to go fast and they shout that we have to go fast, but when everything starts to get stuck they push you back to stand in one line, that more checks are not carried out on this... it's just a shame. I will not step foot in this country again

✅ Trip Verified | Departure area has a cold and unfriendly atmosphere. Security procedures are tedious and unnecessary complicated. Personnel is very unfriendly. Bomb Squad personnel kept batteries and sweets at will for their private use. Overall there is a great discrepancy between the warm and friendly welcome on the arrival site (although the building itself is also cold and unfriendly) and the cold and aggressive behavior on the departure site.

Not Verified | This airport is one of the worst in the world, plagued by senseless security checks and disgusting toilets. The toilets are filthy beyond belief, with floors covered in vomit, broken fixtures, and foul odors that hit you the moment you step in. Many toilets are unusable, with no toilet paper, and the sinks are caked in dirt, making it impossible to wash your hands properly. It’s a complete lack of hygiene. There’s also zero respect for women and people in wheelchairs, making this an awful experience. The staff are unprofessional, and shockingly, even in the unsanitary toilets, people are asking for tips. Despite the country relying on tourism, they treat visitors like animals. The atmosphere is hostile, with staff shouting and making rude, degrading comments. After four visits, this is definitely my last trip to Egypt. You have no idea how many people won’t be returning after being treated this way.

Not Verified | This airport is a complete disaster. The staff (except the one dude who did the first sec check with a smile on his face) was very rude. As we had to fill a form, they didn‘t even give us a pen after asking them about 3-4 times-we literally just got ignored. After that, i don't even know what‘s the purpose of that-we needed to di 3 more sec checks, all very unfriendly. 2 of them asked me about my girlfriend who was by my side: „she good or bad“?? I went to the toilet before departure back home, a security guy in the toilet rooms was harrassing me to give him some euros so i could get out of the toilet.

Not Verified | The people at the security control started yelling at us, I was holding my 2-year-old boy who had started crying, their attitude was disgusting, we will never go there again, I'm sick of the way they reacted, I don't recommend anyone to go there.

✅ Trip Verified | Staff is unbelievably rude. With the exception of 1 or 2 staff members, everyone is really unfriendly, treats you disrespectfully, to say the least. Furthermore, if the excessive controls were really about safety, entering the airport, you wouldn’t be approached by a security guy, with the offer to avoid all controls if you pay 20$ per person. What’s that all about? My desire to ever return to Egypt is completely gone after the way people are treated when leaving this country. And this is a real shame, because people in our holiday place (El Gouna) were really warm and friendly, and tourists make a good contribution to Egypt’s economy.

Not Verified | Worst security check ever I ever experienced. At the first check I did not understand that I to put my feet on the box initiated, I asked the lady and she started yelling at me. She kept yelling ASIM, I told her, sorry I do not understand I don't speak Arabic, she didn’t stop yelling asim. (Still don’t know what it means) Also most of the other staff at the airport were arrogant and very unfriendly. And another issue: no toilet paper. Dirty toilets, unbelievable. We spent our money in Egypt during our holiday in restaurants and shops, and then this is how you get treated when you go home. I give point 1 for that one nice person that worked there.