Flughafen Berlin-Tegel Review

Take care TXL. You were my place where I could withdraw when I wasn't feeling well, you were my therapy.
Why a referendum if you don't listen to the people anyway.
Thank you for the great time.
Rest in peace!!!!!

Small, crammed, very basic facilities. And this is the main airport in Berlin...

I have never seen Tegel like today. It's terrifying.

And you d think Berlin is the capital of Germany ahah. I ve simply never seen an airport that miserable and dirty. It look like a subway station from the 80 s, it smell like it as well. People are packed on the floor everywhere, if you ve never seen a cattle ranch, that s exactly how it looks like when they switch cows from one area to the next. I will pass the fact that it has something like 6 shops and 3 restaurants for the thousands of people transiting through whatever they call this place. I will also pass on the 5 euros coffee that you swore you wouldn t buy but will eventually do out of absolute boredom. Personnel is of course unfriendly and won t hesitate talking to you like a child when they process the fact you don t speak their language. This place is but a stain on Germany, I m shocked that the government is letting such a dirty place be what is possibly the first thing a visitor will see when coming to Berlin. Knowing how heavy the taxes are on German salaries, it makes you wonder.... maybe they should spend a little less in lobster dining and French wine at the reichtag and a bit more on improving the life of their citizen and fellow visitors.....

Terrible security check experience! The worst airport I have ever been! Selfie stick is dangerous a item ? Seriously??

With one of the worst airports in the world. Baggage claim is slow. It works better at large airports. Capital with the lowest provincial level !!
Airplane at the gate and after 40 minutes still no luggage

A worker, no longer the youngest and strongest, had to carry all the baggage of our flight from 5 baggage cars onto the conveyor belt, which also failed several times. The suitcases came so in 20 second intervals to their annoyed recipients. A disaster, as saved here on the backs of the employees!

Worst ever... on all dimensions: slow boarding, long lines, no lounge, no priority line...

It's about the sentiment and not the quality IMO. Emblematic airport in this great city.

Very bad airport. It needs to be either entirely renovated or closed down. Terminal C was very dirthy. The toilets were also very dirthy.

Passport control at full swing and they only offer one booth while the automated border control is completely shut down! Insane!

Needs more staff helping the passengers and some serious cleaning.

Very crazy airport, big mess, luckily soon to be closed for good

Once and never again!
Sad, this is a capital city airport. Airport is very small. Acts neglected. If the airport is destined to continue, you are unlucky because you have to "leave" the airport and have to return to a security check. Drinks and co. which I have bought for expensive money in another airport, I can throw in the garbage!
Suppose we buy a bottle of champagne for expensive money and have to change in Berlin Tegel to our onward flight.
The expensive champagne bottle, you can throw in the trash! It is best to bring your own food, because the airport has nothing to offer and is so expensive, as I get at other airports threefold! If it goes avoid this airport! The one star is too much itself.

The airport is very easy to reach by public transport (bus), is relatively central and unbeatable for Berlin's northern districts.
It is very difficult to drop someone off there by car because there is no short-term parking zone.
The airport is small and narrow, but everything can be reached in short ways.
The waiting areas in the terminal are small and uncomfortable.
If you land in the evening (10.30 p.m.) together with 4 other planes, you sometimes have to wait for a taxi for half an hour.

crowded, hot, long waiting line, not enough equipment, even not enough toilet... worst airport ever had...

Waiting for the suitcase for over an hour is absolutely inappropriate. If even the flights that have their suitcases faster after arriving, you might think something goes awry.

Prepare for a long wait at the security check near your boarding gate. It took me 50 minutes and around half of the passengers are still waiting. Now my flight is delayed because of this. This is the 3rd time I fly from this airport and the waiting seemed to get longer every time. When delay became a norm you should definitely check what s wrong with this airport.

It's you average typical airport nothing too special about it.

I have never experienced such an "anthill". The airport is definitely too small for what it does.

fast, uncomplicated, friendly, central
hopefully the BER never comes

The category of the airport does not correspond to the category of the city it serves.

Slowest security controls ever, no mercy with people that are in a hurry just ask to the people to let you pass first they said. In spain when someone really need a little bit of help is easy to find, here a bunch of squared minds.

You can fly here from other places. And you can also fly to other places from here.

Absolute disaster. Too small luggage belt and two flights are handled. Abnormal waiting times. Overflow passport control on arrival in Tegel. That was guaranteed the last holiday of Tegel went. I prefer to go to Frankfurt !!!!!

Unfortunately the airport has its best years. Too bad that his offspring is so long in coming.

The worst of the airports frequented. Airplanes that are not in contact with where the need to take buses, an apocalyptic slow delivery of luggage ... if you can, flee this airport, supposed to serve the capital of Germany!

You may well love Berlin Tegel Airport upon landing. The street is clearly visible when you re picking up your luggage so the experience is quick and efficient. Grab your case and you re more-or-less outside seconds later.

However, your flight out is unlikely to be anywhere near as pleasant. Long check-in/baggage drop-off queues (we waited in line for over 90 minutes), very poor facilities.

Worst of all is the hell that is the Berlin TXL Express bus service from the airport to the city. There s no train service to Tegel Airport as it s due to be replaced by a modern airport so your choice is taxi or bus. Pay the extra and TAKE THE TAXI, at least during the busy summer months. The TXL Express bus has no space for luggage, you ll be packed in like sardines in a bus way too small for the amount of passengers. There are also several stops on the way (which are appreciated as at least the doors open to let some air in!). Don t assume that as the service runs every 6 minutes, it will be in any way comfortable.

Nice airport a shame that he will have to close soon

Buildings, staff, service. Everything at the very top ...

Security was quick, very poor check in system, terrible food choices near departure gates, sat on the floor cause very few seats

-The airport is super old and small
-Would love to have more options for food (healthier if possible)
-The staff in Terminal A (1,2&3) is just AWESOME! Super nice and they are having fun even if standing all day! This is the kind if people you want to see every day =D , I loved that they even congratulate and announce a birthday from their staff, really cool, keep it!

Tegel is a machine designed to suck the spirit and good will out of everyone who steps foot in it. Staffed by the denizens of the 3rd ring of hell.

You have to wait over an hour for your luggage, your own suitcase is not in sight yet, but two other flights are quickly packed onto the belt and the crowds are an absolute no-go. That about Corona is intolerable! Close that thing and blow it up that a jet can never take off from this "airport" again !!!

Very tidy airport with a lot of security staff. Connection by the TXL bus. About 30 minutes drive from the train station. Also a flixbus stop is available. Buses can be ordered in a service area. For food is provided point in the airport one finds Starbucks and citizen King as well as various other stalls.

Never again. Security check over 30 minutes. Then only two snacks and a shop. Water between 3 and 3,60 for 0,5ltr., Pretzel 2.20 and Butterbrezel 3,90 ... Meatbread 6,50 here you get ripped off!

There is check in control almost for every gate and as a result there is only one option for snack/drink after check in , no proper food.

Dirty, overcrowded. Also: after landing you'll have to wait about 10-15 minutes just to get some stairs attached to the aircraft. Every time. The official reason is "not enough personnel" (since 2 years?).

Too small. In the security area you are crammed like in a cattle truck. No fresh air supply, so the air is stuffy. If you then wait and find out for the 3rd time that a flight is being postponed, you have no options to smoke a cigarette!

I had a terrible experience with this Airport, few basic amenities like rest rooms are poorly maintained and number of rest rooms are not enough for the passengers as well.

Old, full, long waiting times ... just too small for the volume of flights.

Berlin's excuse for an airport. There is not even the possibility to wait while seated. No seats on which one can wait in peace without consumption compulsion on his flight. The prices here are completely outrageous and come to around twice the normal place in Berlin. The staff is extremely rude, making fun of stranded passengers. Avoid!

On the luggage you wait here longer than the short-haul flight has taken. Especially great for nervous travelers, because TXL is probably the only airport in Europe, on which there is no toilet on arrival.

Unfortunately, this RRG government is capable of anything.

It can be a small airport but it's very close to the center. It does not have any special amenities, but a delight. There are restaurants, kiosks, small shops to spend your time. It is clear as it is and very easy to orientate.

One of the worst airports, personnels obnoxious, once you passed the security check, theres nothing to do or eat, a small cafe maybe.

I d like to thank the entire security staff if gates A10/11 for curing my homesickness. Their rudeness and condescension made me fell like I was already back in the states!

The worst airport in Europe. Huge queues, lack of organization, staff couldn t care less.

Super long queues and very ugly. That's the best the German capital can do?

The best of the world. Short distances, clear and that this concept has not been adapted for BER is unfortunate. A star deduction for cleanliness.

This place stopped in time, it's the worst airport ever - everything takes 5x more time than they should.

It is an unacceptable irreverence that as a passenger of an airport in Germany in 2018 you have to wait more than an hour for your luggage.
A miracle that no one climbs the barricades.
Airport operators or airport builders can obviously afford everything.
There is a need in this segment to live in a country like China or Greece. In China, airports will be built in two years (and not in 20 years like the BER, with an honorable group of profiteers crunching billions of dollars in state and citizens billions, damaging Germany's reputation in a singularly damaged way, and no bother or anyone lock someone in).
In Greece, the suitcase always comes after exactly 20 minutes, because you can adjust the clock.
Shame on you loser!

I have been in Third World countries airports that are light-years ahead of this place.
It is very close to the city center, which is an undeniable plus, but it is also clearly unfit to serve a city such as Berlin. Go there early as you'll find more queues you can think of. Appalling lack of infrastructure, coupled by staff unprepared to handle basic tasks. And, once you finally reach your gate and you want to relax...3,5 euro for 0.5l water!

Old and small, with long queues and almost every time flight delays!
Germany's capital #1 airport ...what a joke

I find the airport clear, the gates are relatively easy to reach;)

The exit is before the baggage claim, which leads me to go out early. Then I won't come back to the luggage. Wait 2 hours and pay 15 more. This can be organized better. The people who work there are very friendly and helpful. That makes up for everything.

Airport in the 80s style ... for our capital no award ... was really shocked .... Everything was very narrow and the toilet not as clean, as expected in other airports in Germany .... We never fly there again

A badly organized airport ... internal terminals are not always possible between terminals. Small baggage delivery tape. Not a pleasant overall impression of the place.

Awesome nostalgic airport, which despite the strain on its capacities, finally fulfilled its purpose again at the end of the day. We will miss him and wish us back to the old days.

Quite outdated. Though quick to get through security but only a stall for food...

Can't imagine how it would be packed.

Outdated, filthy, bad connection. Only accessible by public bus.

The airport is too small! But it is very close to the city.

I had to count to 10 before writing this otherwise this review would just be an incoherent foul mouth rant. This is not a good airport. The signage is not at all clear. I had a great deal of difficulty finding my way around. The architecture and design is cluttered. There is no prominence to the important parts of the airport ; a sandwich shop is as prominent as an information desk. The guts of the building such as Aircon pipes are exposed and further leads to the visual confusion . I may have been unlucky but the staff I came across ranged from bored and unfriendly to begrudgingly helpful with very little in the way of smiles. It's also grubby and over crowded.

Tegel was really strange,it was just an unpleasant experience moving through there. The buses to the Hauptbahnhof was a madness... People pushing and cutting the que to board as if they were being chased by zombies or something.
It just felt so out of place for a city like Berlin.The next time I head back there, I'll take the train from Frankfurt or elsewhere.
9.2014

The connection to the public transport is underground bad ... Nice bus station ... Or is it an airport?

The airport is the last, no staff, have been waiting for our luggage for two hours, service zero. Can only advise the airport to avoid, vll only with hand luggage

Hard to give even one. Only good points are toilets ( if ignore horrible smell) and open cafe at early morning.

The worst airport I ve ever flown from.
No information, unprofessional staff and dreadful queues.
Had to wait in a shed for our flight.

Shameful. .... At the controls they made me throw half a liter of water that I had for my little son. ..After the checks, not even a bar to buy it back. ..
When we left Venice, no problem!
SHAME!

Horrendous. Followed the exit signs to leave the terminal, only to find out the baggage pickup was elsewhere and I was not allowed to return inside the terminal to collect my baggage. Made to wait in lost and found to collect my baggage. Staff extremely unhelpful, had to ask multiple questions before they would tell me what to do to try and collect my luggage. Absolute disgrace.

It' small and uncomfortable but so close to the City.

This airport is one of the top here in Germany, it's perfectly organized with its terminals and parking lots.
The airport contains several terminals and for each terminal there's a parking lot.
The arrival and the depart are very quick, especially the depart services, at the beginning I thought a sum of 20 persons will take an hour to get their tickets, but it was only a 20min.
Have a good flight

I would like to thank the Security Check: there is a comment without a check closed, although the people are already up to the entrance and only 2 had more open. So what is that? Furthermore: currently it is so that every 2 weeks when I land in Tegel either the guide, the bus driver, the staircase driver etc missing. I mean a plane falls so suddenly from the sky and you can not plan the staff before .....

Just bad this airport waiting for hours at the security check, as no more staff available. In addition, everything is dirty and came down But fits now to Berlin, because the city has the same condition.

A small, weird airport. Not much comfort and no shops. But very short ways and no long waiting time at the security line.

Embarrassing airport. No one charger for phone, 0 information, shops smalls and expensive, 3,90e 1 coke!!!!, nothing to do while waiting. Good nothing special and wifi only for 1 hour. They make you wait sitting on the floor if you want to charge like In The 3rd world. And this people with his capital city with this airport? If I were German I would feel the shame of having this airport

The airport just looks old and unkempt. The staff is totally arrogant.

Shuts down early so all delayed flights get cancelled! Also customer service shuts down as well leaving everything a mess. Not a very clean airport either, and staff get pretty rude.

Terrible airport. It's a shame for such a big city to have such a tiny airport.

Well, the airport has been left in the past. Everything also makes a bissl dingy impression.
To be honest, the honeycomb form annoys.

For a short stay of a w-e, this small airport provides quick access to Berlin, 20 minutes by bus and you have arrived. I did not have the pleasure of wasting my time while waiting for my luggage I only had hand luggage! no delay on my flights ... after actually it's tiny, when I read the comments for travelers in transit I feel like it's hell ... but for me everything is fine past.

Piston, after going through the gates, there is not even where to sit. One booth with drink. Soul. Poor overall. One plus Mrs. Polka at the briefing. Very nice .