Lanzarote Arrecife Airport

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1/10

"completely ruined our holiday"

(United Kingdom)

Not Verified | Absolutely disgusting help with special assistance. We had two assistants screeching and shouting at both myself and husband, and then I was just left dumped at the gate when everybody else had left for the plane. I have serious heart problems and was so upset my heart rate went sky high. I'm seriously considering never going to Lanzarote again, as this completely ruined our holiday. Have some respect please. If you don't like your job, leave, then don't take it out on the disabled
Experience At AirportDeparture Only
Date VisitJuly 2023
Type Of TravellerCouple Leisure
Queuing Times 12345
Terminal Cleanliness 12345
Terminal Seating 12345
Terminal Signs 12345
Food Beverages 12345
Airport Shopping 12345
Wifi Connectivity 12345
Airport Staff 12345
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1/10

"joke of an airport"

(United Kingdom)

Not Verified | What a joke of an airport. Starting with the check-in process, which was shambolic. An extremely rude member of staff shoo'd away around 100 people in such a rude manner. The crime that us and all these people had committed well it was queuing at the desk that was stated on the board. After creating this chaos, she soon re-opened the same desk and told half of the already frustrated people to re-join, which caused anger when we didn't move as they couldn't figure something out. Lots of angry punters voicing annoyance at such impotence committed by the rudest person I've ever seen at any airport, let alone an employee. Security was fine though. Next up was queuing for boarding, my god, what cretin designed this airport. You had to queue to cutting across the main concourse of the airport, blocking everyone up and next to toilets. Next up is the bus, now the bus doubles up as a waiting room. A hot, nasty waiting room. Eventually we all boarded and were told it would be 50 minutes until we go anywhere. Awesome news. Why board us then you complete cretins. All in, the worst run, designed and run airport I've ever experienced.
Experience At AirportDeparture Only
Date VisitMay 2023
Type Of TravellerFamily Leisure
Queuing Times 12345
Terminal Cleanliness 12345
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Terminal Signs 12345
Food Beverages 12345
Airport Shopping 12345
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2/10

"Really disgraceful service"

(United Kingdom)

Trip Verified | Told to board and then kept in a boiling stairwell. No help for mother and babies who after nearly a hour needing to feed and go to toilets. Apparently not enough bus drivers. The ones we saw where busy joking around. This caused our flight to miss the a lot and we are delayed by about a hour. Still sat here on the 14th January. Really disgraceful service from a poorly run operation. Cattle get treated better than this place! Terminal not enough seats and not attempts to queue manage on any gates, so the terminal just got blocked up.
Experience At AirportDeparture Only
Date VisitJanuary 2023
Type Of TravellerCouple Leisure
Queuing Times 12345
Terminal Cleanliness 12345
Terminal Seating 12345
Terminal Signs 12345
Food Beverages 12345
Airport Shopping 12345
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4/10

"E-gates only used by about 20% of travellers "

(United Kingdom)

Trip Verified | Since I last visited this airport they have replaced most of manual passport control with E-gates which families with young children cannot use. This is a bad error of judgement considering how many families with young children come through this airport. We queued for over half an hour for passport control. My daughter needed the toilet and there was access to none because they had barriered them off until you got right to the front of the queue. We then missed our transfer as were it took an hour to get through the airport. The E-gates were only being used by about 20% of travellers and staff were walking down the queue trying to find travellers who could use them. What a waste of money installing them or so many of them.
Experience At AirportArrival Only
Date VisitJuly 2022
Type Of TravellerFamily Leisure
Queuing Times 12345
Terminal Cleanliness 12345
Terminal Seating 12345
Terminal Signs 12345
Food Beverages N/A
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1/10

"Very unorganized and unprofessional"

(United Kingdom)

Not Verified | This airport is one of the worst airports I have been into in my life. Disability with my mum pushing me in a wheelchair, no help whatsoever .. they could see us struggling and just say staring at us but helped everyone else. Didn't help us get the bags or anything. Airport is tiny, crowded. No room to do anything especially with a wheelchair. Gates are all squeezed in with the restaurants and cafe so your standing next to people getting food while their in a queues at their gate number. No food available for allergy sufferers. Special assistance people have to wait until the whole plane gets on first then they get on last even though your put at the front to get on first? Makes no sense. There's a reason why it's called special assistance. Jet2 woman did not care at all that we were distressed, stood there like a wet lemon. Not sure why she was there. Absolutely no staff to look after the ones needing special assistance. Very unorganized and unprofessional. Won't be returning back to this airport.
Experience At AirportArrival and Departure
Date VisitJune 2022
Type Of TravellerFamily Leisure
Queuing Times 12345
Terminal Cleanliness 12345
Terminal Seating 12345
Terminal Signs 12345
Food Beverages 12345
Airport Shopping 12345
Wifi Connectivity 12345
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10/10

"Staff are all friendly"

(United Kingdom)

Trip Verified | This is actually a pretty good airport. It is very spacious and there is plenty seating if you walk to either end. We found it to be clean. The check in for Jet2 was excellent and security was very quick and friendly. There are plenty of options for bars and cafes once through security - there are also two outdoor seating areas which are great to catch a last bit of sunshine. Staff are all friendly - we never experienced any rudeness described by others - after all, it can be a two way thing. The duty free area is good with excellent variety.
Experience At AirportDeparture Only
Date VisitJune 2022
Type Of TravellerFamily Leisure
Queuing Times 12345
Terminal Cleanliness 12345
Terminal Seating 12345
Terminal Signs 12345
Food Beverages 12345
Airport Shopping 12345
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1/10

"such a rude and unpleasant passport control officer"

(United Kingdom)

Not Verified | In all my life never have I encountered such a rude and unpleasant passport control officer on my travels. He was shouting at me in such an unpleasant offensive manner so much so I actually felt quite afraid.
Experience At AirportArrival Only
Date VisitApril 2022
Type Of TravellerFamily Leisure
Queuing Times 12345
Terminal Cleanliness 12345
Terminal Signs 12345
Food Beverages N/A
Airport Staff 12345
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1/10

"All staff were rude and aggressive"

(United Kingdom)

Not Verified | Disabled assistance was slow and in the end we had to go through ticket and security without a wheelchair. All staff were rude and aggressive.
Experience At AirportDeparture Only
Date VisitMarch 2022
Type Of TravellerCouple Leisure
Queuing Times 12345
Terminal Cleanliness 12345
Terminal Seating 12345
Terminal Signs 12345
Food Beverages 12345
Airport Shopping 12345
Wifi Connectivity 12345
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1/10

"Departures are simply awful here"

(Ireland)

Not Verified | Departures are simply awful here. It took fully 2 hours from entrance door to airplane door. Everything done manually, bag drops, document checks. The most inefficient airport I've ever seen. Lanzarote is great but having to go through here to get home would make me seriously reconsider visiting again. Also absolutely everything is incredibly overpriced. Up there with Europe's most expensive airports.
Experience At AirportDeparture Only
Date VisitAugust 2021
Type Of TravellerFamily Leisure
Queuing Times 12345
Terminal Cleanliness 12345
Terminal Seating 12345
Terminal Signs 12345
Food Beverages 12345
Airport Shopping 12345
Wifi Connectivity 12345
Airport Staff 12345
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1/10

"Terrible airport, especially for departure"

(Switzerland)

Trip Verified | Terrible airport, especially for departure. There are 3 million tourists to Lanzarote every year. All arriving by plane. At this airport. Yet they still have not managed to install online-check in and efficient bag drops. It seems like a deliberate insult. When you leave and have spent all your holiday money, we don't care about you any more. Get lost. So Check-in is like in 1984, 50 m long queues on both designated check-in desks two hours before the flight. Horrifically inefficient staff. I had business ticket with Edelweiss airline to Zurich. The business counter was filled up with economy passengers. Staff didn't bother. There is no priority security. At boarding time, there is no priority boarding. This time staff shouted 'business class'! Only audible for about 4 meters, I did go through, but just had to wait much longer in an overheated bus for all the economy passengers. So business class here really is a financially masochistic exercise. A total waste of money. Even worse experience than economy. I hope more people would complain about this. How can it be that a country totally depended on tourists arriving by air are so useless in investing in this crucial first and last impression people have when visiting. I have been many times in Lanzarote, but every time I dread the ridiculous queues at the check in.
Experience At AirportDeparture Only
Date VisitApril 2021
Type Of TravellerSolo Leisure
Queuing Times 12345
Terminal Cleanliness 12345
Terminal Seating 12345
Terminal Signs 12345
Food Beverages 12345
Airport Shopping 12345
Wifi Connectivity 12345
Airport Staff 12345
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