Geneva airport - take lots of cash! (Geneva Cointrin International Airport (GVA))

Member Name: Chazza1984

Product:	Geneva Cointrin International Airport (GVA)
Date:	06/08/08 (40 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Some nice areas, and great if you have money to spare

Disadvantages: extremely expensive!!

Having very recently had to sit in Geneva airport for 6 hours waiting for a connecting flight I've definitely got to grips with everything that their lounge offers. To be fair I was on my way back from a festival and almost completely out of money but I definitely think that Geneva airport was catering to another "crowd". I was stuck in a very small area for a very long time, which consisted of very few, very very expensive designer clothes and jewelry shops. There was one duty free shop which was slightly easier on the pocket but still not great. The "lounge" where you could go and sit to wait for your plane was freezing cold with almost primary school style plastic chairs and to top it off there was construction work going on. The only really nice place to sit was their recently introduced smoking room which was pretty plush and didn't smell at all. I think the biggest shocker was the one and only cafeteria which charged me £5 for two small bottles of coke!!!! if I had been flush enough to be able to afford a simple stir-fry, that would have set me back around £18. A good experience, perhaps the one and only was that the staff all seemed very pleasant and were very polite. So some advice may be to try not to get stuck in their for hours, if you do take loads of money if you plan to eat and take a travel pillow and a good book which may make the lounge slightly more tolerable!!

Summary: Be prepared