Best airports you've been in

For Forks Sake · 03-05-2015 10:08PM

Dublin T2 is up there with the best of them it has to be said.

Also Heathrow T2 is a dream compared to the stinking, seemingly never-ending hovel that was T1.

Zurich, I also like. Murderously expensive for anything mind.

Knock, if for no other reason than you can park 30 seconds from the door.

Sh1tbag OToole · 03-05-2015 11:15PM

Any of the Aran Islands airports. I have been to all 3, no security or bullsh1t, no need to go into the building which is just a house anyway.

For mainstream "on the grid" airports I would say London City.

smurgen · 03-05-2015 11:28PM

Cork Airport.ya breeze through it with minimum fuss and it's close to the city.geneva is probably the handiest.there's a train station at the end of the terminal.free ticket into the city and it's the first stop.it literally takes ten minutes.so so handy . security is fast too.

seventeen sheep · 03-05-2015 11:31PM

Edinburgh. Cosy and friendly. And I seem to remember there was a lovely carpet there.

Amirani · 03-05-2015 11:34PM

Berserker wrote: »

It is a lovely terminal but the security there drives me mad for some reason. O'Hare International, Chicago is a very good airport from my experience.

O'Hare is the worst place in the world.

JillyQ · 03-05-2015 11:35PM

Shannon Park right beside the airport plus no big queues

joe swanson · 03-05-2015 11:49PM

Singapore . Great spot, so many activities.

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Daenarys · 03-05-2015 11:56PM

Yeah Singapore airport is deadly! I also like Munich International and Dublin T2 is great!:)

Zaph · 03-05-2015 11:58PM

Diego Simeone wrote: »

O'Hare is the worst place in the world.

Agreed, it's the grimmest airport I've ever been in.

Best for me are Schiphol - easy to get around and good facilities, and London City - so convenient and you can be out of it in no time after you land.

Aongus Von Bismarck · 04-05-2015 12:01AM

I cannot believe someone would suggest O'Hare airport. The Americans are excellent at many things; their airports tend to be awful claustrophobic hellholes.

I travel quite a bit with work. My favourite airports are those that are clean, spacious and with a good business class lounge.

Incheon in South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong are all excellent. I think Dublin T2 is a fine airport, if only it had better transport into the city. I tend to hire a car when I fly into there, but the sight of visitors queuing up for a Dublin Bus gives a bad impression.

dusty207 · 04-05-2015 12:02AM

Darjeeling Airport in India, tiny place and chaotic. Miss your flight due to over booking and you're stuck for days. Years ago I was minding my own business waiting for my flight when a security guy came over, pointed his rifle at me and indicated I should follow him. He lead me to the front of the melee that was security, got me through without being searched and onto the plane ahead of everybody else. Not a word was spoken at any stage that I understood. As he was leaving me at the plane he smiled and said "Bobby Sands".

branie2 · 04-05-2015 12:02AM

Shannon airport loads of times

Underground · 04-05-2015 12:05AM

Diego Simeone wrote: »

O'Hare is the worst place in the world.

Arrived there for my J1 to be greeted by the sound of a busker lady singing the most depressing Mary J. Blige song so loud we could hear her from the other end of the terminal. Talk about grim.

Grid. · 04-05-2015 12:07AM

Singapore is great indeed.

Larbre34 · 04-05-2015 12:13AM

Tampa International. It has won many awards

Its acoustically damped so even when busy its quiet, massively spacious, passive air conditioning, fantastic art deco theme. Very cool .

JFK and Milan Linate are hell mouths. Gatwick and Faro a close second.

Dublin isnt bad now, just needs to get bloody fu**ing unionised immigration desks sorted

Yurt2 · 04-05-2015 12:14AM

Dublin T2 has made the airport bearable.

Sing is top class alright.

Best ever though is Seoul / Incheon. Outstanding for a layover as they have a Korean/Japanese style sauna and bathhouse accessible from the transfer area. Hyper modern with cool architecture and lots of food options.

martyos121 · 04-05-2015 12:14AM

Best one for me is Knock. No mad queues or people knocking you over with bags, nice and quiet place that doesn't stress you out like some airports.

Worst I was in was Manchester. Looks more like a train station inside with the busyness of a major airport, nightmare to get out of.

smurgen · 04-05-2015 12:15AM

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

I cannot believe someone would suggest O'Hare airport. The Americans are excellent at many things; their airports tend to be awful claustrophobic hellholes.

I travel quite a bit with work. My favourite airports are those that are clean, spacious and with a good business class lounge.

Incheon in South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong are all excellent. I think Dublin T2 is a fine airport, if only it had better transport into the city. I tend to hire a car when I fly into there, but the sight of visitors queuing up for a Dublin Bus gives a bad impression.

Why? I often got busses in foreign airports.dublin airport is grand and economic to get to.london airports are a nightmare at this stage . Stansted is really expensive and takes ages to get to.
the best single experience i had in an airport was when i went into an executive lounge in one in Poland before.my friend was an executive with Japanese tobacco and he'd access to all the lounges.they'd a chef making personal pizzas in a clay oven in front of ya and a pool table.it was like something from a carlsberg ad

glynf · 04-05-2015 12:17AM

Hong Kong international is the most impressive I've ever been through. 2 hours hop from there to Bangkok airport, which is a dirty hole in comparison..

Deank · 04-05-2015 12:17AM

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

I cannot believe someone would suggest O'Hare airport. The Americans are excellent at many things; their airports tend to be awful claustrophobic hellholes.

I travel quite a bit with work. My favourite airports are those that are clean, spacious and with a good business class lounge.

Incheon in South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong are all excellent. I think Dublin T2 is a fine airport, if only it had better transport into the city. I tend to hire a car when I fly into there, but the sight of visitors queuing up for a Dublin Bus gives a bad impression.

Of course you're a globe trotting entrepreneur, shame the chauffeur was late

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Anyway for me it's Atlanta, Georgia, smashing airport.

the evasion_kid · 04-05-2015 12:20AM

Suvarnabhumi Airport bangkok,far better than the old don mueang.you're off the plane and through immigration far quicker too,before you know it you're at the airports front doors and as they open it hits you....The smell is like a warm fart that’s just gone through an engine, all hot and diesely.

JoannieG · 04-05-2015 12:22AM

Sangster International in Montego Bay, Jamaica - it's bright, cheerful and happy! And has amazingly good duty free shops. T2 in Dublin is up there among the best, but the prize has to go to Carrickfinn in Donegal. It's small, intimate and very friendly. If only it had more flights and it wasn't so remote

Mister Vain · 04-05-2015 12:29AM

I can't think of any airports that are better than Dublin T2.

Aongus Von Bismarck · 04-05-2015 12:36AM

Deank wrote: »

Of course you're a globe trotting entrepreneur, shame the chauffeur was late .

Anyway for me it's Atlanta, Georgia, smashing airport.

Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta? Are you serious? I vaguely remember the mural there put up for the Olympics. The rest of the airport was a stressful, cramped and vaguely hostile place to be. A complete lack of decent places to eat if you aspire to something that isn't a beer and burger combo.

fullstop · 04-05-2015 12:40AM

Mister Vain wrote: »

I can't think of any airports that are better than Dublin T2.

I can think of plenty. There's **** all shops or restaurants. Nice building and very clean but don't know how people think it's the best.

One of the best I've been in is probably Philadelphia, from what I saw of it waiting for a connection. Nice, spacious and clean with loads of shops and restaurants.

JupiterKid · 04-05-2015 12:53AM

Dublin Terminal 2 is excellent. Could do with more shops and eating places mind.
Amsterdam Schiphol
San Francisco

Duffy the Vampire Slayer · 04-05-2015 01:52AM

Incheon Airport is great.

fin12 · 04-05-2015 02:06AM

Gatwick

Ruu · 04-05-2015 02:16AM

Love London City for the location, 15-30 minutes away from the house.

sunbabe08 · 04-05-2015 07:17AM

i have to say Gibraltar airport is an absolute delight. hung out there because we missed our bus back to fuengirola.

my favourite though, and i might be biased here, is cork airport, small and easy to get around.

as for the dublin airport terminal 2 love, makes me happy to hear, because i'm using it for the first time in july

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