I am a Scot who fortunately lives in Austria, but I had the misfortune to have to come back to the UK to pick up a new Brexit approved passport (hopefully I'll be let back into Schengen) and got my firm to fly me to Edinburgh airport where I could visit my folks at the same time. I haven't been here since last year and I was depressed then by the shabby appearance of the airport and borderline hostility by some of the security staff. One elderly American lady in front of me made the mistake of asking a guy in a high vis jacket where she she go to to get her passport stamped and she was gruffly told to read the limited signage. So much for welcome to Scotland, maer like awa hame tae yer ain country hen. So I was not expecting a fantastic experience this time. True to form this time EDI did not disappoint. We arrived on the late flight from Amsterdam only to be left to stand on the tarmac for 15 minutes till one of the employees got off their mobile and realised, oh there's a plane load of people standing out in the cold perhaps we should let them into the building? So we then shuffled along the queue to get our passports checked. There was no open hostility to the guests this time, it was more a simmering resentment that we passengers dared to take up their valuable time. This was an improvement but only just. The state of repair and clenliness in the immigration hall is frankly pitiful. Does anyone ever clean the floor in there? Not that this would help when many of the floor tiles had been repaired with duct tape. This place would not look out of place in Port Hardcourt in Nigeria. I am not surprised there are signs up telling you not to take photos. I am pretty sure this has nothing to do with security and more to do with the fact that they don't want anyone posting pictures of the shabby state of the place to the internet. After reading some of the other reviews on here amazingly my bags actually arrived in fairly short order and I was able make my way out into the drizzle, which I can't blame on the airport. It's Scotland, the weather is sh*te. What I can blame on the airport is the fact my father was charged £5 for the 2 minutes and 30 seconds it took to pick me up in the dropoff zone and leave. A minute of that was him trying to get the machine to accept his card. You do realise that in other parts of the world, even really expensive parts of the world, you can actually drop off and pick up people at the airport for free? Vienna gives you 10 minutes before you are charged. On the way back out of the country on Saturday I also flew out of EDI. My father I know again had to cough up 5 quid to drop me off. My first stop before checking in was to find a lavatory, which was not exactly clean, there was toilet paper in the stalls but also skid marks on the pans and a stench of stale urine like your average Weatherspoons pub. I know gents toilets are never places you want to hang around in unless that's your thing, but perhaps it would be an idea to hire some more cleaning staff or get the ones you have to move their mops about a bit more. On my way to check in I passed a machine that had been thoughtfully placed so you could check the weight of your luggage, I was almost impressed until I noticed that you needed to pay to use it. Let me guess another 5 quid per bag. Why not just offer it as a service because no Scot is going to pay to use it. Or perhaps it's meant for gullible Americans. The check in itself was relatively painless compared to the previous time where I was made to check in a small box containg a fragile Harry Potter figurine which I bought in Jenner's for my sons birthday. Contrary to what it says on the posters you can't always take 2 bags through. Well I suppose you can if you buy it at the exorbitant prices that you get charged by Duty free. I can actually buy Talisker whiskey in Vienna for half the price that they are charging in EDI duty free. Security was also pretty good, the staff were pleasant and I got through fairly easily which is a plus. However when it came to boarding the staff at the gate had either only just started in their jobs or were so overworked that they had lost interest because the boarding process was shambolic. There were 3 of them there, one grumpy guy who was doinh all the work and looked like he was ready to punch someone, one gormless looking woman who just watched and another who was fiddling with a radio. You do realise that most people can't actually read minds? Perhaps if you decide to board by groups you could actually inform people which group you want to board next. It was just so inefficient. Is this the worst airport experience I have ever had, far from it, but considering EDI is the airport of the capital city in Scotland you would expect it to be better than your average 3rd world banana republic. It's just a bit shabby and shambolic, which pretty much fits Britain's post Brexit image.