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06-05-2009, 09:56 PM
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Best Airports in the world?
From all the airports you have been to which ones is the nicest/cleanest?
I understand the last thing we want when we travel is to look the airport itself, but some do make us feel more at ease. If you had to choose which one would it be? Why?
I personally like Hong Kong International, it's absolutetly beautiful, inexpensive, well kept and easy to find your way around.
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06-05-2009, 10:42 PM
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Definitely the Hong Kong International Airport and Bangkok's Airport. They're both so clean it's unreal.
Although the AC in both airports are COLD.
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06-05-2009, 10:43 PM
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Indianapolis International Airport. They just built a brand new $1B airport that is very luxurious and comfortable.
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06-06-2009, 10:18 AM
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Kuala Lumpur International Airport is good, and so is Schipol Airport in Amsterdam.. So clean and easy to find your way around.
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06-06-2009, 11:05 AM
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Singapore's Changi was clean and very interesting the last time I was there - 18 months ago. Hong Kong was so clean it was almost sterile. Not as interesting as Singapore's though, which had more life to it.
Just went through Denver International this past trip and that's a beautiful airport - outside and in.
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06-06-2009, 12:10 PM
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Dubai international airport.
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06-06-2009, 03:19 PM
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Since we are coming with quite a nice list of Airports I'm thinking: should I make this a poll? Maybe open another thread for the worst airport as well? What do you guys/gals think?
If so please help me come up with a list of good and bad airports for the poll?
For bad: Heathrow -- London, As much as I hate to say this because I'm from NY -- La Guardia Airport is NOTORIOUS for the terrible delays and so is JFK, Logan International in Boston is atrocious! Security is a mess. Another airport I wasn't too crazy about was Nassau International in the Bahamas (to be fair though, the last time I was there was in 2006).
On the list of good ones: San Diego International is small but easy to get around and pretty clean as well. Toronto Pearson International is nice, to me, at least. I also liked smaller airports in Canada like Greater Moncton International Airport.
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06-06-2009, 03:46 PM
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dont know about best but for me charles de gaulle (paris) is terrible...
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06-07-2009, 01:18 AM
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Phoenix airport is well kept, fast through security, has SW American & Hispanic stuff all around, which I dig, and well organized despite the fact the car rental place is off-campus - you have to take a shuttle bus there.
Seattle's airport is trying to be better. Horrible traffic and ancient parking structures that are an eyesore are there, BUT they have a new light rail line going downtown & the South side, and security and everything afterward is easy. Just don't arrive in International arrivals. You really feel like you're entering The Empire, with a dismissive and rude attitude.
Narita @ Tokyo was pretty nice, and even without my wife before I knew Japanese I could stumble through conversations, in English. There's also a killer viewing deck for checking out airplane landings / taking off. You couldn't do that in The Empire, since everyone's worried about terrorists and what the gun loving Southerners would do if they actually could smuggle a gun in.
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06-07-2009, 01:37 AM
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I'm a frequent user of Hong Kong airport - it's lovely. Bright, super-efficient, helpful staff, clean, great restaurants. Most of the major airports in asia are pretty good.
Changi airport in Singapore is almost unarguably the best in the world. Where else will they give transit passengers a free city tour, have great restaurants, bars, free wireless, a swimming pool, movies, music pods, xbox/PS3s, snooze areas, hairdressers, massages, a rooftop garden (amongst other gardens). It's almost a destination in itself!
The worst I've been to would be LAX and Paris CDG. What a nightmare CDG is. Makes me shudder just thinking about it.
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