Bristol Airport - Bristol

Zaphod Beeblebrox

Huge amount of building work going on.
Car drop off took minutes at meet and greet.
Security took 5 minutes.
Sat in Brigg and Stow bar £15 for 2 pints.
So far so good. Busy but not Stanstead busy.

Annie Charles

A quiet car park with plenty of different areas to park such as short stay to long stay and silver zone. Shuttle buses run through the car parks that are further away.

Airport is tidy with water filling stations, toilets, duty free and more little independent cafes and restaurants.

Have been there a couple of times now and feel happy with the service provided.

Bill Ryan

Lots of walking to outlying gates but overall a fairly comfortable airport to use with reasonable services for the traveller. However there should be a mask provided to help protect innocent passengers from the overwhelming perfume smell in the unavoidable duty fee passage.

Marc Thornell

Complete shambles of an airport?
No one knows what they are doing.
Landed at 4pm and they didn’t put our bags on the belt until 5.30pm ? now we have to wait for the silver zone bus joke of a place.
The staff here should go to a proper airport and learn how a proper airport like Dalaman work they have a great system in place.

Jan van der Putten

If you love queueing the this is the place! You can go from one queue to another without ever stop queuing. Passport, coffee, car rental bus & desk; all queuing opportunities. Don’t miss out and bring a friend. Can easy spent all day here. Cheaper than Disneyland

Rosalind Newman

We did the twilight bag drop off which was super speedy the night prior.

The morning of our flight we arrived at the airport a 4 am and we were in through the departure door, straight up the escalator.
Within 10 minutes we were sat in the lounge.

No overly busy with plenty of fresh food and drinks.

Boarding and flight was a really pleasant experience

Dmytro Maliuk

This is my first time at Bristol Airport and I was very pleasantly surprised. Everything was clearly organized and understandable, even for first-timers. The staff was very friendly and helpful with any questions I had.

The airport was spotlessly clean, even the toilets were sparkling clean. There were no unpleasant smells, which often happens in airports.

Overall, I was very pleased with my experience at Bristol Airport. This is without a doubt one of the best airports I have ever been to.

✅Here are some of the things I liked:
?Clear and understandable navigation
?Friendly and helpful staff
?Impeccable cleanliness
?No unpleasant odors

The Northern Irish Explorer

Having only passed through this airport once, it nevertheless still left me with strong emotions, both for better and for worse.
First, I will start with the positives.
The airport is bright, modern and well maintained, and is easy to navigate. Security is generally efficient and friendly(even though I was held up as I inadvertently had put throat spray in my bag and failed to declare it), and it took me little time to get through(although I did travel on a domestic flight in February, so that could affect my judgement).
There is a good range of destinations one can fly from, even if I feel more could be included.
There is also a decent range of places to eat and drink both landside and airside, with plenty of accommodation nearby for weary travellers.
Bus connections are also pretty good, and quite cheap.
Now the negatives.
First, the airport charges £6 for drop off. And parking itself is an absolute ripoff. Granted, Bristol is far from being the only airport guilty of this practice, but even still charging £170 for five night's parking is ridiculous. Honestly, I'm not surprised by the number of dodgy, illegal car parks that sometimes appear in the nearby fields.
The wi-fi did not work when I tried to use it. Admittingly, it was at eight in the evening in February, so this might have been a one-off occurrence, but again, this shouldn't be a problem.
The biggest issue is the giant elephant in the room, not the airport itself but its location.
I have to be blunt. Bristol Airport's location is appalling. It is located just eight miles from the city centre, which sounds reasonably enough, but the transport links are extremely poor. While there are decent and fairly cheap bus services, it doesn't change the fact you have to travel down the A38, a narrow, windy country road that is incapable of handling the massive volumes of traffic forced to use it. This includes local traffic heading into Bristol from the southwest as well as that from localities like Taunton and Wells. It is quite a surreal experience driving past quint country pubs and farmhouses advertising discount parking and accommodation for airport users.
As if that wasn't bad enough, if the A38 shuts down all traffic is forced down narrow country lanes, contributing to road rage, air pollution and complaints from local residents who are forced to put up with it. You only need to look online to find photographs of cars stuck in congestion along these lanes as they attempt to reach the airport.
This is made worse by the complete absence of a rail or motorway link, which would make access far easier.
So, to reiterate, Bristol, the largest city in England's South West, the tenth largest city in one of the richest countries in the world, is served by an airport which is only accessible by either a substandard country road, or narrow country lanes where one risks being hit by vehicles thundering through in the opposite direction. This airport, by the way, is the eighth busiest in the United Kingdom. Ultimately, you might as well walk to Bristol.
In conclusion, Bristol Airport is clean, organised and efficient, with a good range of destinations and plenty of places to eat and shop, but its location and extravagantly expensive parking by exploitative owners hinders its development, and prevents the city from having a truly world class aviation hub it can be proud of.
Remember, it services both Bristol and Bath, two of the ten most visited cities in England. Ultimately, to end on a melancholy note, Southwest England deserves much better.