To warn you not to travel to Prague by plane on a non-EU passport

Budapest was the same.

We went to Spain in May and Italy in the summer and both were fine. A bit longer at Malaga but it was very very busy. Some places just aren’t very organised. I voted remain but I think a system that the EU introduced being subject to repeated issues and complaints is something the EU should be embarrassed about.

Are you trying to tell me what l meant??

@Meandthegherkin, totally agree the implementation has been a bit of an embrassment for the EU, but would hate to think how crap thinks would have been here in the UK if part of it. I am a public sector worker and all our systems still seem to run as if we are in the early 2000s! Same with other public agencies when I contact them (which I have to regularly) for info.

Oh christ this doesn't have much to do with brexit. Its more that the eu have adopted a system that doesn't work. No one has the balls to admit it.

Actually its bloody good reason to celebrate not being in the eu. Given that uk airports would be equally stuffed and all those non eu tourist ie yanks would be put off coming here and spending the £7 billion they do

It must depend on the day I think ??
DS and friends back 2 weeks ago from Prague and had no issues. Myself and DH Croatia in May and Munich recently again no issues 🤷🏻‍♀️

I went to Prague in August and it was absolutely horrific. It took us over 3 hours to get through. Our poor taxi driver said it was the longest he'd ever waited for anyone.

On the way back, we left for the airport stupidly early, and got straight through - OBVIOUSLY 🤦🏼‍♀️😂 ended up sat in departures for nearly 4 hours

You book assistance before you travel

Palma in August managed its visitors without any issue when we went. Greece in July didn’t bother. DH said it was a breeze when he went to Marbella in May too.

Just got back from France and Belgium - no problem at all on Eurostar..

People want tight borders everywhere.....this is how it plays out.

Not saying it's great...I voted remain but we can't have it both ways.

The UK voted for this! They are controlling their borders. It’s what you were told Brexit would do.

It varies from one airport to another.

It's not Brexit or "the EU" specifically having a go at the Brits, the system that's causing the problem in places is tied into entry/exit of the Schengen Zone (not entry/exit of the EU) and it potentially clobbers anyone travelling on a third country passport..e.g. US Citizens, Australians etc.

But yes if your caught in it it's a pain

I went to Gran Canaria in Feb and it was dreadful. Went to Slovenia in June and no queues at all. It really seems to depend where you go. It put me off going abroad again though when I next had some time off in September and I went to London on holiday instead.

Just back from driving to Germany.
I was surprised that the checks on the LeShuttle crossing both ways were just to hand over your passport at the manned booths. No fingerprinting and no queues to speak of at all.

I feel that way too. I prefer to visit parts of the UK. I visited Craster yesterday on my way home from a holiday and really enjoyed seeing Northumbrian coastline. Beautiful part of the UK and I want to see it in more detail. 😍

Agree it’s not a ‘Brexit punishment’. Just piss poor management of a change.
UK borders are actually very efficient. We have the same potential controls on EU citizens as they have on us but we don’t impose the same pain on them. Our control of European nationals is probably lighter than it should be but it’s the UK way. Too nervous of pressure groups and complaints to avail ourselves of some of the control that Brexit could have made possible.

That's Brexit for you.

Ahhhh Brexit.

Take back control. Oh yes.

Yes Lisbon what the same, not just EU either, everyone. What’s worse is they stick passport control after duty free/restaurants. So you think you’ve done security etc and relax for a bit of shopping and a bite then you realise there’s a whopping 2 hour queue to get on the plane! Same at Majorca.

Dont even speak to me about Tivat…

It’s not Prague specifically- I’ve flown to Spain, France and Italy this year and they’ve all had the same. Varying levels of busyness depending on how many people were landing at the same time.

I’d be surprised if easyJet didn’t warn you, I have emails from them about it that they sent before my journeys.

They had a choice. It’s what the (slight) majority voted for! And now they moan.

Someone upthread asked what happens if you miss your flight due to an EES queue. It's almost certainly going to be up to you to cover the extra costs in that case.

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/eu-entry-exit-system-questions-uk-travel-simon-calder-b2968666.html

We flew in and out of Copenhagen this summer. Going in was awful - 2 hour queue, only two desks open, no machines working, same queue regardlessof whether you'd registered before. So coming home, we left lots of time (although we needed to wait for bag drop to be opened before we could go through) then sod's law, we breezed straight through the EES checks in 5 minutes!

This is the EU system and not Brexit, done it via Singapore and Malaysia since the year 2000 and all good, Korea too. May be the EU system was badly planned whilst they should have used Singapore system?

The point about Brexit (for the hard of thinking) is that we lost our EU passports.