Three countries airport! (EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg (BSL, MLH, EAP))

Member Name: dangaroo

Product:	EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg (BSL, MLH, EAP)
Date:	29/12/08 (81 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Well connected

Disadvantages: Not many ammenities - quite expensive

The Euro Airport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg is a crazy airport which covers two countries (France) and and connects to a 3rd (Germany) as well, although the whole airport is actually on French territory, the airport is split in two with a little border in the middle of the airport (this will be abolished in a few days), it was really quite surreal!

I to and fro'd across the border a few times in order to get food from the French side as it was cheaper. For some reason I thought that my flight was leaving from the Basel section because that is what it said on my ticket but it seems like I could have left from the Mulhouse/Freiburg section too. Depending on which name you choose on the ticket - it will effect the taxes though. That's to say that if you have a French flight flying from Mulhouse to Paris it will be cheaper than if you buy the ticket Basel to Paris.

The airport is quite small and there is just two shops, one little bar and a few check-in queues. I flew out of this airport twice - once to Marrakech and once to Berlin. Getting there from Basel was easy - there is a bus leaving from the train station and it is well sign-posted. The ticket costs about 4 swiss francs as I recall.

This airport has lots of cheap flights throughout Europe as well as to Turkey and Morocco.

Summary: Nice airport