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by ginko 815 days ago
It's one of my least favorite airports in Europe. The number of times my luggage got lost there alone is enough for me to avoid whenever possible. The shops and restaurants are also extremely bland.
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The needed context seems to be that the person you are replying to is German. I don't love Schiphol either, but it beats any German airport (looking at Frankfurt in particular).
What’s a nice large European airport? I feel like I’ve heard terrible things of all of them, like LHR and CDG.
I like Heathrow when travelling to or from London. It's huge, but there's public transport to each terminal, a reasonable selection of restaurants and generally somewhere to sit. It's fairly quiet.

Changing between terminals at Heathrow is much less fun.

CDG I find confusing.

>Changing between terminals at Heathrow is much less fun.

I decided to stay at a Heathrow airport hotel a while back. Turned out I had to change terminals and I'm pretty sure it took me at least as long as getting a shuttle bus to one of the hotels would have taken.

You often have to walk quite a ways too.

Overall though Heathrow is pretty good among the large European airports.

I actually kinda enjoy the distance between terminals. After a long international flight, I deliberately take the tunnel, and skip the moving walkways. As long as I'm not rushing to make a connection, the walk is really nice.
Copenhagen is quite nice.
Except for the incredibly low ceilings in some places.
I would argue that's the only nice airport in Scandinavia even! Would say the worst layout on an airport i've ever seen is Stockholm Arlanda.
Copenhagen airport is my favourite too - note however that Arlanda T5 is being expanded at the moment and it seems like it will be a lot nicer when they're finished. The security stuff is already much better: no need to unpack laptops etc. from hand luggage when going through the new section. T2 is still quite sucky though!
OSL is fine too. And it's not like there's a huge number of large hubs in Scandinavia…
Frankfurt is atrocious, but Munich is great.
> The shops and restaurants are also extremely bland.

Worse than Frankfurt? It seems like the only food you can get there is a hot-dog...