SJD airport is a small airport which makes things easier when moving around from checking bags and the correct boarding gate. Plenty of places to eat along the way

Not my favorite airport. In the smaller end which is good. International Departures is not too bad. Not a large airport so it does not take too long to get to your gate. We checked in and dropped bags and got to the gate in 15 minutes… there is a food court and Starbucks and candy stores. Very little healthy food. Prices are outrageous. International Arrivals are worse. Depending on how many flights arrive at one time immigration can be short or long. Waiting for your bags is what will define how long it takes. Customs is usually easy but you can have your bags checked and if they find things that are subject to duty they can charge you 19% which has happened to me. Rare but it does gain.

Very decent experience, while the airport is in need of some renovation and remodeling, it was very well efficiently run! The immigration officer was kind too

Watch out for the “Duty Free” stores. They mark items “half price” and then charge full price. When I saw they overcharged me they said oh it will show up as a credit with your bank. Wrong, that’s not how that works. Double check your bill before paying. Scammers even in the airport. When you arrive it’s relatively painless and easy to navigate to customs. When departing the security line moves quickly, but dumps right into Duty Free shopping.

Flew in via SWA from Houston. Getting luggage and going through immigration was pretty painless. We had already prearranged transport to our resort but you have to walk through this area full of people trying to offer you transport. We were told by our driver to basically ignore them and head outside to the pickup area. Upon flying out everything went smoothly except that nobody in our party saw the self checkin lines to the left. We ended up in the SWa line for maybe 15 minutes total. They are very good at finding those items that you’re not supposed to have in your bags so make sure to get rid of those beforehand. We got to see more of the airport after checking in. There are lots of shops for things to buy if you want to take something back. The bathrooms didn’t seem plentiful. I only saw the ones downstairs in the food court area. They were just okay.