Nice Airport

✅ Trip Verified | I was waiting, with my fellow traveller to board my BA flight on September 22nd 2023. We were hoping to have a glass of wine and something to eat at Bellota Bellota where we usually stop. However this time, there was no one to be seen, I and several other travellers waited for 10/15 minutes to no avail. I walked just inside the area to check if there was a notice, computer, till, wines, food etc were all open and unsecured. I turned by the unsecured opening and an enraged and shouting female demanded what I was doing I explained, she said that there was no one to cover for her and that she was entitled to a break. I returned to my seat and this female came 'screaming' over to me, seated with other passengers, asking if I had photographed her as 'I had no right'. I hadn't. I am an older female and found this altercation, embarrassing and humiliating and not up to the high expectations of wonderful Nice Airport. I have been using Nice since you could walk to the plane!

✅ Trip Verified | Appalling airport. Extremely rude, borderline aggressive staff, who throw your stuff around and scream at you for no reason. Passport control is an absolutely joke, they have one officer for the whole non-Schengen area and you have to queue for ages. No proper food or drink - not even water fountains - just a shabby Starbucks once past passport control and it closes at 10pm so if you a late flight you can just go to hell. Toilets are disgusting. Shops - the lady tried to close her shop while I was still in it. Just ignoring me. Rude. At arrival, there is only one vending machine for the tram which means you have to queue hours to get a 1 euro ticket. Couldn't it be done online or on an app, in 2023? Please. No explanation no signage, car rental is located in the most absurd place possible and everyone around is so damn rude, barely speak a word of English and it feels like they're all just out of prison or something. Avoid at all cost this ridiculous airport.

✅ Trip Verified | I can only agree with all of the other reviews regarding poor staffing and long queues. The lack of staff in the baggage drop and the passport control areas meant that I queued for nearly all of the two hours from arriving till my flight, along with hundreds of other people even though I had fast track boarding passes. I hate to think what other people experienced. I witnessed some people walking to the front of the queues and pushing in, using physical intimidation of generally older people to get their way. There was no-one to manage these issues. It was a completely unsatisfactory and unacceptable situation. To have only two people on passport control to deal with hundreds of people is extremely poor. A number of people around me were late for flights or had to ask staff (when available) to help them as they were minutes away from missing a flight. This was the worst experience I have ever had at an airport.

Not Verified | At T2. Checking in was ok and so was security screening. Walked into the departure area and it was filled with a queue for passport control. I set my stopwatch and 53 minutes later was finally through. The 4 biometric readers were out of action so everyone had to use the human inspection method. I have never experienced such poor management.

✅ Trip Verified | Rude, chaotic, loses passports! Nice airport is the worst I've ever seen in all my years of traveling internationally. Do not fly out of there. The staff are rude. The check in counters are nothing but chaos. No airline has their own and we spent 20 min trying to figure out which line we needed. A French woman on our flight even said "c'est ridicule". And even once you find your line, the desk people are disorganized and very slow. At security, a man stands at the conveyor belt, shuffling everyone's stuff into other bins and combining different peoples stuff together. You have to be vigilant to watch what is happening. At the end, my son's passport was lost for awhile until some passenger found it. Who knows where. They checked 2 of our bags thoroughly - every inch. The woman was so slow - like her movement was actually barely moving sometimes. She spent 15 min per bag. My husband said "looks like they've hired the sloths here". Took us 45 min to get thru security and the line wasn't that long. Avoid this airport if you can.

Not Verified | Nothing to do. Old airport, looks like some maintenance is needed. Not a lot of shops or seating. Toilets not clean at all. No ventilation in terminal, humid. Definitely not what I would expect in Nice.

Not Verified | Had a stopover here with a colleague from Corsica (Bastia) to Frankfurt. Since the flight from Bastia was massively delayed (arrival in Nice at 11:00 p.m., onward flight to Frankfurt at 8:00 a.m., so check-in from 6:00 a.m.), it made little sense to book a hotel there. So I tried to spend the night in the airport and get a few hours of sleep, which unfortunately was absolutely impossible due to the staff there. First I was very rudely "removed" from Terminal 2 (that's where I landed from Bastia) with the comment that this terminal is not intended for stay and I was allowed to walk to Terminal 1 with all my luggage (tram doesn't run at night). There I was repeatedly and loudly pressured into going outside or inside, always with the excuse "cleaning" etc. The staff was extremely rude and it was clear that this was purely about harassment, that if possible no one gets to sleep at the airport, as it seems that people don't like that here. As a reminder, the forced stay here was not my fault, but a problem with a flight cancellation. Hatte hier mit einem Kollegen einen Zwischenstopp von Korsika (Bastia) nach Frankfurt. Da der Flug von Bastia massive Verspätung hatte (Ankunft in Nizza erst um 23:00, Weiterflug nach Frankfurt 8:00, also Check in ab 6:00) hatte es wenig Sinn, sich da noch ein Hotel zu nehmen. Ich versuchte also, die Nacht im Flughafen zu verbringen und ein paar Stunden Schlaf zu finden, was leider aufgrund des dortigen Personals absolut UNMÖGLICH war. Zunächst wurde ich sehr unhöflich aus Terminal 2 "entfernt" (dort landete ich von Bastia) mit dem Kommentar, dass dieses Terminal nicht zum Aufenthalt vorgesehen ist und ich durfte zu Fuß mit all meinem Gepäck (Tram fährt nicht nachts) nach Terminal 1 laufen. Dort wurde ich innerhalb mehrmals massiv und mit lauter Sprache bedrängt, mich abwechselnd nach draußen oder nach drinnen zu begeben, stets mit Vorwand "Reinigung" etc. Das Personal war EXTREM unhöflich und es war klar, dass es hier rein um Schikane ging, dass möglichst niemand am Flughafen zum Schlafen kommt, da das hier scheinbar nicht gern gesehen wird. Zur Erinnerung: der Zwangsaufenthalt hier war NICHT meine Schuld, sondern ein Problem eines Flugausfalls.

✅ Trip Verified | Awful experience. Long wait times for bag drop with British Airways. Then rude and abrupt staff at security, aggressively showing shouting instructions in bad English. Then to complete the experience longer than a hour queue for passport control. Avoid at all costs.

Not Verified | All was ok until passport control. Stood there for an hour. One person checking. Plane departed late as we were missing so many passengers. Also very warm and it was only 8:30am. Has put me off visiting this area again. Have travelled the world - not a great experience. Do better Nice airport!

✅ Trip Verified | Airport staff at the departure gate rude and unprofessional. The airport is clearly not managed very well as there were queues and bottle necks at pretty much all stages of the check in and boarding process but the we were particularly unimpressed by the behaviour of the staff at the departure gate who were quite rude and unprofessional. This is a shame as the airport itself could be quite nice and is situated in a great area and could potentially be an excellent gate to the South of France if only the staff were better trained and behaving in a more professional and welcoming way.