Cheapflights Finds the Airports Where You"ll Want to Waste Time

Cheapflights Finds the Airports Where You’ll Want to Waste Time

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA, Oct 15, 2013 (Menafn – Marketwired via COMTEX) –One of the biggest gripes of air travellers is being delayed at theairport or spending hours waiting for connecting flights.

The intrepid travellers at Cheapflights.com.au know the pain ofairport boredom and have researched some of the cooler things to dowhen you’re stuck at the airport. The trick, according toCheapflights, is being stuck at a good one.

EXERCISE AND HEALTH Yoga: Go downward dog at Dallas, Fort Worth’sterminal-based yoga studio in the USA. Meditate: Albuquerque andRaileigh-Durham in the USA offer meditation rooms for travellers.

Ping Pong: Tables are available at Milwaukee’s Mitchell Airport.

Run: Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris is like a running track withits circular design of Terminal 1. Swim: A swimming pool and spa areavailable to passengers at Singapore’s Changi Airport. Just breathe:Narita Airport in Japan has an oxygen bar where you can get a quickfix of pure O2. Get jabbed: Get a flu shot, yellow fever vaccinationor countless other travel jabs at walk-in medical centres at airportsaround the globe. Health Check: Teeth whitening and blood pressuretesting are just two preventative measures you can take while waitingfor your flight.

CHILL OUT Pamper: Qatar’s lounge in Doha has a full spa for bliss.

Pet: Japan’s Narita Airport has a hotel for your furry friends alongwith a vet clinic and a grooming salon. Pooch Therapy: Didn’t bringyour dog to the airport? At Miami International, Casey the therapydog wanders the terminal for pats, snuggles and to dish out somepuppy love. Pray: Many airports have prayer rooms, but Dammam’s KingFahd International Airport has a mosque for 2000 worshippers. Sleep:Recline and pump out some Z’s in a specially designed ‘sleepingchair’ at Seoul, Singapore or Amsterdam airports. Nature: Pay avisit to the rainforest without leaving the airport. A section oftropical jungle has been transplanted into Kuala Lumpur Airport inMalaysia. Beach: The runaway at Barra, in Scotland, is right on thebeach. Find Nemo: The runway at Hamilton Island in QueenslandAustralia juts out over fringing sections of the Great Barrier Reef.

Loos with views: From Hello Kitty-themed restrooms in Taipei tofuturistic electronic toilets in Tokyo, an airport bathroom break hasnever been more interesting.

PLAY Golf: Both Hong KongInternational and Thailand’s Don Muang airports have golf courses onthe airport grounds. Ice Skate: Show us your winter style and graceat Seoul’s Incheon airport with an indoor synthetic ice rink.

Oompah: Munich Airport has its a beer hall, Airbrau, with a breweryand cabaret shows. Rock out: Nashville International Airport holdsup to 100 concerts a year. Game: Paris’ airports provide Playstation3 consoles for passengers to use, free of charge.

CHECK OUT Dinosaur: A giant Yangchauanosaurus greets passengers atAtlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport. Art: London’s HeathrowTerminal 5 has an art gallery. Museum: San Francisco InternationalAirport has a museum. Books: Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam has theworld’s first permanent airport library. Learn: Madrid-BarajasAirport’s Expoambiente Area provides information about environmentalissues. Movies: You can rent a movie for your laptop from a range ofkiosks at airports across the USA. Hong Kong International has theworld’s only airport iMAX screen. Lord of the Rings: A giant statueof Gollum from Lord of the Rings sits catching fish in WellingtonAirport in New Zealand. Stars: Tokyo’s Haneda Airport has aplanetarium. Fish: Vancouver airport has an aquarium and a jellyfishexhibit. Ghost: Manchester Airport in the UK is supposed to behaunted. Boo! The City: Singapore, Utah and Istanbul airports alloffer free trips into town to see the sights if you are a passengerin transit.

And if you are stuck at a-not-so-entertaining airport, maybe you cancheck out the cheapest way to get to some of these airports atwww.cheapflights.com.au.

ENDS

Editors note: Sources for more information on the above facilitiescan be found athttp://www.cheapflights.co.uk/travel/stuck-at-airport-sources/

About Cheapflights.com — part of the Momondo Group

Momondo Group is an online travel media and technology company thatis driven by the belief that an open world is a better world. Thegroup now serves travel search and inspiration to over 13 millionvisitors a month — plus 6 million travel newsletter subscribers –via its Cheapflights (www.cheapflights.com) and momondo(www.momondo.com) brands. Skygate began the sourcing of complexair-travel data in 1992, while Cheapflights pioneered the onlinecomparison of flight deals for users in 1996 and momondo launchedmeta-search in the Nordic countries in 2006.

The Group has offices in London, Copenhagen, Boston and Toronto, witha consumer base across more than 20 core international markets butusers all over the world.

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Cheapflights Finds the Airports Where You"ll Want to Waste Time