Your flight: delayed. You: lucky. Because now you can go for a quick hike. Or a round of golf. Or a swim... in a pool with a swim-up bar...
For your next layover at HKG: book a tee time at Nine Eagles Golf Course, outside Terminal 2. There are nine holes (including one in the middle of an artificial lake) lit by floodlights at night, and everything you’ll need is rentable: shoes, clubs, caddies. In case yours doesn’t travel with you.
Leave it to the Swiss to maintain nature conservation areas between Zurich Airport’s runways—and let you take out 24-gear bikes to explore those areas. Either full- or half-day rentals are available from the service desk, and they also have Nordic walking poles. We know you were wondering.
You may have heard of jacuzzis at airports. Swimming pools, too. But add a swim-up bar and all of a sudden you’re channeling a tropical vacation in Departure Transit Lounge East. You’ll have to pay 14 bucks to use the facilities—but that’s nothing for pre-flight stress relief.
You know the dilemma of, say, a five-hour layover—not enough time to do much but squeeze in a nap on a business lounge chaise. Heathrow’s Terminal 3 has an answer: £20-per-hour soundproofed single bedrooms, complete with flat room service and a drencher shower. Also useful for fun naps.
The first thing many people think when their flight is delayed by three hours: damn. The second thing: beer. Lufthansa’s put a full-on beer garden (long tables, more than 300 seats) in their business-class lounge. Drafts, pretzels, views of the Alps—it’s like Oktoberfest in Terminal 2.
