Virtually all of my Schengen entries have been conversation-free. A quick scan, a quick stamp, and I'm off. Even when I had police inspecting passports at the plane door of a Schengen arrival in Vienna, there was no real scrutiny at passport control.
Originally Posted by
t325
My experience at Berlin-Tegel arriving from LHR was also very similar. A quick "guten tag" and a "danke" (which, along with scheiss, is the extent of my German
) and 10 seconds later I was through passport control.
That's my one exception, because Tegel was one of the rare spots where I was asked a handful of questions. Actually, on the whole, entering Schengen at German airports (TXL, MUC) has been more involved than any other entry point. (some questions upon exit too)
Originally Posted by
VelvetJones
CDG was more ridged, they actually looked through my passport and asked me what I was doing there.
Again, one's MMV. I had some family members enter through CDG and not only did they only get a cursory glance at their passports and no questions, their passports were not even stamped, leaving them with no (immediate) proof of their legal entry should they be stopped (and they nearly were, at a random side-of-the-road checkpoint in the French countryside).