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Re: Reopening Brussels Airport after the 22/03/2016 terror attacks

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webstermc wrote:
sn26567 wrote:
webstermc wrote:the elevators in the parking building were a real bottleneck.
Do you know that there are stairs next to these elevators? Not easy to find, but they are there, and I always used them to avoid the bottleneck.
Yes I know, but with luggage, it is not easy to take the stairs...
Parkings are very bad compared to other European airports.
It's a black spot but already discussed before and everybody agreed.
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lumumba wrote:Parkings are very bad compared to other European airports. It's a black spot but already discussed before and everybody agreed.
Can you share us the names of the European airport-parkings you use, and that are better?

(by the way, I don't think that "everybody agreed" that Brussels Airport has bad parkings).

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Passenger wrote:
lumumba wrote:Parkings are very bad compared to other European airports. It's a black spot but already discussed before and everybody agreed.
Can you share us the names of the European airport-parkings you use, and that are better?

(by the way, I don't think that "everybody agreed" that Brussels Airport has bad parkings).
Amsterdam,Frankfurt,Düsseldorf etc...
I tough everybody or most of us where agree on that one .
Does not make Brussels a bad airport but the parking side looks like an airport in the US.
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Left on holiday trough AMS saturday and must say I'll try to avoid it in future. Mainly due to poor staf planning from Tui, but still. Self check-in okay, but quite a hassle afterwards when you have to pass thrpugh the luggage drop off for only a childrens buggy, a drop off being equiped by one girl for three flights. That lone girl having to drop someone elses buggy of at another location leaving her station unmanned while three colleagues are watching doing nothing. AMS better service then BRU? Hell no!
Arrived three hours in advance only to have to run to our plane which went tech... Not AMS fault ofcpurse, but our replacement plane arrived miles further. This airport is way to crowded and in all way unable to cope with it's megahub function...

And the most troublesome... My wife forgot her trolley at some food desk. Only after 20' we realised and I went back to look for it, expecting it to be taken away (at least). Great was my surprise when it still stood in front of the cashier and nobody apparently cared.

I'll take good omd BRU anytime.

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lumumba wrote:
Passenger wrote:
lumumba wrote:Parkings are very bad compared to other European airports. It's a black spot but already discussed before and everybody agreed.
Can you share us the names of the European airport-parkings you use, and that are better?

(by the way, I don't think that "everybody agreed" that Brussels Airport has bad parkings).
Amsterdam,Frankfurt,Düsseldorf etc...
I tough everybody or most of us where agree on that one .
Does not make Brussels a bad airport but the parking side looks like an airport in the US.
I do not agree on this.
To compare AMS with BRU parking: if you choose the long term-low budget formula in both cases you end up om the other side of the airport domain where a bus picks you up and stops in front of terminal. I experienced both as efficient. Parking at BRU in P1, P2 or P3 gets you in max. 5 minutes inside the terminal if you look for a good spot (dont't waste time searching at the lower levels, at the top levels there's plenty of parking space near the doors to the elevators zone). I parked at AMS inside a long stretched parking building, with also offices above it. If you manage to get a spot in front near the terminal entrence it is ok, but from the other end it's quite a long walk.
Beside the parking issue I also find the building/terminal layout at BRU to be better and clearer than the AMS-maze. The only thing I like when going to AMS is in fact the rooftop terrace, the plane inside the terminal (for kids, yeah sure... ;) ) and that they have Burger King.

But off course, prefenrences are always a personal thing...

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Conti764 wrote:Left on holiday trough AMS saturday and must say I'll try to avoid it in future. Mainly due to poor staf planning from Tui, but still. Self check-in okay, but quite a hassle afterwards when you have to pass thrpugh the luggage drop off for only a childrens buggy, a drop off being equiped by one girl for three flights. That lone girl having to drop someone elses buggy of at another location leaving her station unmanned while three colleagues are watching doing nothing. AMS better service then BRU? Hell no!
Arrived three hours in advance only to have to run to our plane which went tech... Not AMS fault ofcpurse, but our replacement plane arrived miles further. This airport is way to crowded and in all way unable to cope with it's megahub function...

And the most troublesome... My wife forgot her trolley at some food desk. Only after 20' we realised and I went back to look for it, expecting it to be taken away (at least). Great was my surprise when it still stood in front of the cashier and nobody apparently cared.

I'll take good omd BRU anytime.
I'm agree with the airside,this is better in Brussels .
Amsterdam is crowded etc...

But for the parkings I'm not agree...
Maybe the parkings are bigger and you need to walk a lot but in Frankfurt or Amsterdam they are very clean and clear .
The front park and parking 3 (but the elevators are really bad) are ok but that one in the middle with the express parking and where you have to pay ...
This is a third country parking with bad lighting and water all around and barely no indication!!!!
Hasta la victoria siempre.

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lumumba wrote:
Conti764 wrote:Left on holiday trough AMS saturday and must say I'll try to avoid it in future. Mainly due to poor staf planning from Tui, but still. Self check-in okay, but quite a hassle afterwards when you have to pass thrpugh the luggage drop off for only a childrens buggy, a drop off being equiped by one girl for three flights. That lone girl having to drop someone elses buggy of at another location leaving her station unmanned while three colleagues are watching doing nothing. AMS better service then BRU? Hell no!
Arrived three hours in advance only to have to run to our plane which went tech... Not AMS fault ofcpurse, but our replacement plane arrived miles further. This airport is way to crowded and in all way unable to cope with it's megahub function...

And the most troublesome... My wife forgot her trolley at some food desk. Only after 20' we realised and I went back to look for it, expecting it to be taken away (at least). Great was my surprise when it still stood in front of the cashier and nobody apparently cared.

I'll take good omd BRU anytime.
I'm agree with the airside,this is better in Brussels .
Amsterdam is crowded etc...

But for the parkings I'm not agree...
Maybe the parkings are bigger and you need to walk a lot but in Frankfurt or Amsterdam they are very clean and clear .
The front park and parking 3 (but the elevators are really bad) are ok but that one in the middle with the express parking and where you have to pay ...
This is a third country parking with bad lighting and water all around and barely no indication!!!!
Yes, P2 is showing it's age and the ceilings are very low. P1 and P3 are modern though and I dont't see anything wrong there.
Personally I never had problems with the elevators, there are like 10 or 12 in a row?

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Sonho1985 wrote:
lumumba wrote:
Conti764 wrote:Left on holiday trough AMS saturday and must say I'll try to avoid it in future. Mainly due to poor staf planning from Tui, but still. Self check-in okay, but quite a hassle afterwards when you have to pass thrpugh the luggage drop off for only a childrens buggy, a drop off being equiped by one girl for three flights. That lone girl having to drop someone elses buggy of at another location leaving her station unmanned while three colleagues are watching doing nothing. AMS better service then BRU? Hell no!
Arrived three hours in advance only to have to run to our plane which went tech... Not AMS fault ofcpurse, but our replacement plane arrived miles further. This airport is way to crowded and in all way unable to cope with it's megahub function...

And the most troublesome... My wife forgot her trolley at some food desk. Only after 20' we realised and I went back to look for it, expecting it to be taken away (at least). Great was my surprise when it still stood in front of the cashier and nobody apparently cared.

I'll take good omd BRU anytime.
I'm agree with the airside,this is better in Brussels .
Amsterdam is crowded etc...

But for the parkings I'm not agree...
Maybe the parkings are bigger and you need to walk a lot but in Frankfurt or Amsterdam they are very clean and clear .
The front park and parking 3 (but the elevators are really bad) are ok but that one in the middle with the express parking and where you have to pay ...
This is a third country parking with bad lighting and water all around and barely no indication!!!!
Yes, P2 is showing it's age and the ceilings are very low. P1 and P3 are modern though and I dont't see anything wrong there.
Personally I never had problems with the elevators, there are like 10 or 12 in a row?
It's true but because the wall is round you can not see when they arrive they don't make a noise.
And a lot of them are not working...
Hasta la victoria siempre.

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lumumba wrote:It's true but because the wall is round you can not see when they arrive they don't make a noise.
And a lot of them are not working...
The only one with a 'round' wall is P3, and the lifts do make a sound when they arrive there, and they all work.

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teach wrote:
lumumba wrote:It's true but because the wall is round you can not see when they arrive they don't make a noise.
And a lot of them are not working...
The only one with a 'round' wall is P3, and the lifts do make a sound when they arrive there, and they all work.
That's the parking I'm speaking about, for the noise it's not clear for me I always have to walk from left to right to see where he will arrive.
And 3 weeks ago I had to take the stares because I waited a long time.
I'm not bashing here I now the good points of Brussels Airport and the parkings are not one of them ....

Off topic when I try to use the menu from my cellphone it's not working already for 1 week.
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lumumba wrote:
Conti764 wrote:Left on holiday trough AMS saturday and must say I'll try to avoid it in future. Mainly due to poor staf planning from Tui, but still. Self check-in okay, but quite a hassle afterwards when you have to pass thrpugh the luggage drop off for only a childrens buggy, a drop off being equiped by one girl for three flights. That lone girl having to drop someone elses buggy of at another location leaving her station unmanned while three colleagues are watching doing nothing. AMS better service then BRU? Hell no!
Arrived three hours in advance only to have to run to our plane which went tech... Not AMS fault ofcpurse, but our replacement plane arrived miles further. This airport is way to crowded and in all way unable to cope with it's megahub function...

And the most troublesome... My wife forgot her trolley at some food desk. Only after 20' we realised and I went back to look for it, expecting it to be taken away (at least). Great was my surprise when it still stood in front of the cashier and nobody apparently cared.

I'll take good omd BRU anytime.
I'm agree with the airside,this is better in Brussels .
Amsterdam is crowded etc...

But for the parkings I'm not agree...
Maybe the parkings are bigger and you need to walk a lot but in Frankfurt or Amsterdam they are very clean and clear .
The front park and parking 3 (but the elevators are really bad) are ok but that one in the middle with the express parking and where you have to pay ...
This is a third country parking with bad lighting and water all around and barely no indication!!!!
If I remember correctly that outdated FP2 is to disapear in a few years. 1&3 are fine, spacious, clean and with free space indicators...

AMS parkings I have no experience...

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I agree: 1 and 3 are perfect, 2 almost ready to be demolished...

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Sonho1985 wrote: Personally I never had problems with the elevators, there are like 10 or 12 in a row?
There are indeed a lot of elevators, but when went to BRU in june, I used the discount parking and took the bus.

I was very fast on the departure level (we took an elevator from the bus station, and were obliged to get out at departure level and take another elevator. At that level, there were a lot of people waiting to go up.

I was lucky as the first elevator that stopped at that floor was right in front of me...

So if the tents are staying is, is it not possible to add somewhere an escalator to increase capacity?

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lumumba wrote: That's the parking I'm speaking about, for the noise it's not clear for me I always have to walk from left to right to see where he will arrive.
Take two steps back next time in stead of standing right in front of the lift door. You'll see all of 'em.

Plus, each call button only calls on two or three of the lifts: push the first button, and the lift to the right or left of it will come. Not the lift five down the line. Want a lift quicker? Push a few call buttons.

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teach wrote:
lumumba wrote: That's the parking I'm speaking about, for the noise it's not clear for me I always have to walk from left to right to see where he will arrive.
Take two steps back next time in stead of standing right in front of the lift door. You'll see all of 'em.

Plus, each call button only calls on two or three of the lifts: push the first button, and the lift to the right or left of it will come. Not the lift five down the line. Want a lift quicker? Push a few call buttons.
That's exactly my point you need to be a specialist to now al this tricks not easy at all.

But ok this is not a big problem, parking 2 is a bigger one and they waited to long to replace that one.
Nothing more....
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lumumba wrote: That's exactly my point you need to be a specialist to now al this tricks not easy at all.
You're kidding right?

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teach wrote:
lumumba wrote: That's exactly my point you need to be a specialist to now al this tricks not easy at all.
You're kidding right?
No listen I'm not alone in this situation when I wait for the elevators...
I had already discussion in the elevator with other passengers about it .
But like I said it is not a big problem but it's not practical.
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lumumba wrote:
teach wrote:
lumumba wrote: That's exactly my point you need to be a specialist to now al this tricks not easy at all.
You're kidding right?
No listen I'm not alone in this situation when I wait for the elevators...
I had already discussion in the elevator with other passengers about it .
But like I said it is not a big problem but it's not practical.
For once I'd tend to agree with "lumumba": I use P3 quite often and the lifts system is not too convenient; the ring announcing their arrival is a bit faint and, specially when you're pushing a loaded trolley, it's not so easy to rush from one lift to another.

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So, instead of complaining on here about the elevators... Why don't you send a mail to Interparking, and maybe things get changed.

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Tompompier wrote:So, instead of complaining on here about the elevators... Why don't you send a mail to Interparking, and maybe things get changed.

Tompompier
That can be a good idea but we can also talk about it here it is a forum no!!!

Maybe somebody from the airport is reading with us .
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