Posts in the category "Souvenir Sunday":

While many airports enforce a “street pricing” policy for vendors, it’s not uncommon to experience sticker shock when buying a snack or a souvenir before a flight.

That’s why I’m a fan of the discount-filled coupon booklet that the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport puts out every two months, the airports that put discount offers on the back of printed boarding passes and the new collaboration between Yowza!! and HMSHost, which operates concessions at many airports.

Right now, you can use the Yowza!! app to find coupons for use at Tampa International Airport and at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), where there are discounts offered for Pinkberry, California Pizza Kitchen and LaBrea Bakery. The program should roll out at other airports around the country later this year.

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Missed Mardi Gras?

Me too. But StuckatTheAirport.com fan Bernard Ouellette was in New Orleans recently and found these great souvenirs at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport.

Have you found a great souvenir while you were stuck at the airport? If it’s fun, inexpensive and ‘of’ the city or region, please snap a photo and send it along. If your souvenir is featured here on StuckatTheAirport.com, I’ll send you a travel-themed souvenir.

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Like me, you may have thought that Biscoff cookies were only served on airplanes.  After all, according to Lotus Bakeries, the company that makes the cookies, more than 1.5 billion of them were served on airplanes by 2010.

But it turns out you can buy those cookies on the ground. Lotus Bakery will mail them to you (there’s even something called Biscoff spread) and, to my surprise, you can also buy the cookies at some airports. I saw this display at a newsstand in the baggage claim of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

Biscoff cookies for sale at Sea-Tac Airport

Souvenir Sunday is a weekly feature on StuckatTheAirport.com. Nominations welcome.
Best bets are souvenirs that are inexpensive, ‘of’ the city or region and, ideally, a bit offbeat. Snap a photo, check the price and if your souvenir is featured on Souvenir Sunday I’ll send your a travel-related souvenir.

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It’s Souvenir Sunday – a day to take a look at the fun, inexpensive and locally-themed items you can find when you’re stuck at the airport.

This week’s pick comes to us from world-traveler Jon Douglas, who found a bin of vegemite for sale at Australia’s Sydney Airport.

What’s vegemite?

According to the Urban Dictionary: It’s a “delicious Australian spread, made from used brewer’s yeast. Non-Australians tend to give descriptions of it similar to ‘tastes like a mixture of salt and battery acid’.”

On the road a lot? If you find yourself stuck at the airport, take some time to check ou the shops. If you find a great souvenir that’s fun, inexpensive and ‘of’ the city or region, please snap a photo and send it along.

If your souvenir is featured on StuckatTheAirport.com, I’ll send you a special travel-related souvenir.

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On my way home from Singapore, I considered buying a souvenir at Changi Airport tied to the country’s national flower: the orchid.

But I gravitated instead to the many displays of Tiger Balm in the airport pharmacies and gift shops.

Tiger Balm, made by the Haw Par Corporation of Singapore, is a pungent ointment made with menthol, camphor, clove oil, cajuput oil and mint oil, and is said to be able to cure everything from headaches, migraines and colds to arthritic pains, muscle strains and, according to one sign I saw at the airport, flatulence.

I was ready to buy a few Tiger Balm tins when a saleswoman sidled up to me and suggested I take a look at the tins filled with Electric Balm, which were stacked nearby.

“This product is also made in Singapore,” she told me, “But it’s less expensive and smells better.”

A box of 16 menthol-scented tins was 20 Singapore dollars, about US$16.

Sold. And this week’s pick for Souvenir Sunday.

Next time you’re stuck at the airport, take a moment to check out the stores. If you find something that’s fun, inexpensive and ‘of’ the city or region, please snap a photo and send it along. If your souvenir is featured on Stuck at The Airport, I’ll send you a special airport-related souvenir.

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