(Posted on December 4, 2018) While there’s a hotel inside Madrid airport’s terminal 4, most of the airport hotels are located a short shuttle bus ride away from the terminals, near Barajas station. One of such hotels is the Hotel Tach Madrid Airport where I stayed…
(Posted on November 30, 2018) Besides a couple of Austrian Airlines lounges in Vienna airport’s terminal 3, there are also four contract lounges – one in both Schengen and non-Schengen parts of both the old and new terminals. In the past I visited and wrote about…
(Posted on November 24, 2018) Besides the lounges at its bases in Australia (such as the Sydney lounge), Qantas also operates a network of lounges at its outstations. One of those is The Qantas London Lounge at Heathrow airport’s terminal 3 which was…
(Posted on November 22, 2018) During my last month’s layover in Seoul, I was originally planning to stay at Hotel SKY Incheon which was recommended to me by a friend. However, when I arrived at the hotel, I was shocked to find a “closed for renovation” sign on the…
(Posted on November 16, 2018) Given the proximity of Japan and Korea, and the number of Korean Air flights between the two countries, it’s no surprise that Korean Air’s KAL Lounges are the most ubiquitous lounges in international terminals of Japanese airports…
(Posted on November 12, 2018) Having traveled to Sapporo quite a few times in the past – especially for plane spotting – I had the chance to stay at several hotels around Sapporo New Chitose airport including the ANA Crowne Plaza. In September, I visited…
(Posted on November 6, 2018) Besides the domestic lounges operated by ANA and JAL – the two largest airlines in Japan – there are also third-party “credit card” lounges at airports all over Japan. One such lounge is Lounge Hana (stylized “~hana~”) which can be found…
(Posted on October 31, 2018) Both JAL Sakura Lounge and ANA Lounge at Sapporo New Chitose airport went through a renewal process in the last couple of years. While the JAL Lounge reopened in 2016, the ANA Lounge reopened in September 2017…
(Posted on October 19, 2018) Kagoshima airport is one of the ten busiest airports in Japan, and with about fifty domestic Japan Airlines group flights departing the airport every day, it is no surprise that JAL operates a Sakura Lounge there. While the lounge has been at…
(Posted on October 5, 2018) Christchurch International Airport is equipped with three lounges: two Air New Zealand lounges (domestic and international) and the independent Manaia Lounge in the international terminal. Prior to getting on a flight to Brisbane (which…
