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Souvenir Sunday: Free rides on Singapore Airport’s Giant Slide

08/22/10
Each Sunday we take a look at some offbeat, inexpensive souvenirs you can find when you’re stuck at the airport. This week, the airport souvenir is an experience: A ride on Singapore’s Tallest Slide and the World’s Tallest Slide in an Airport. The Slide @T3 is actually two slides: one is a free-to-ride“preview” slide one […]

Souvenir Sunday: emergency underpants at the Greenwood Space Travel Supply Co.

08/15/10
What would the souvenir stand look like at the airport where flights took off for outer space? No doubt just like the Greenwood Space Travel Supply Co. in Seattle, where there’s an Atomic Teleporter on-site and shelves full of useful and just plain fun and bizarre things for that out-of-this-world trip. Unfortunately – or maybe, […]

Souvenir Sunday: Socks and pet services

08/01/10
Yesterday’s Snack Saturday feature served up Tastycakes and other Pennsylvania-made treats for sale at Harrisburg International Airport’s (MDT) Perfectly PA shop. That same shop is where you’ll find one of this week’s Souvenir Sunday picks: socks decorated with an Amish horse and buggy scene. I’m sure there’s a shop or two over at the Minneapolis-St. […]

Snack Saturday: Pennsylvania-made treats from Harrisburg International Airport

07/31/10
What can you do when you’re stuck at the airport? Eat! And if you’re lucky, you’ll find yourself stuck at an airport where the restaurants and shops serve and stock local foods. Hungry at Pennsylvania’s Harrisburg International Airport (MDT)?  Head for the Perfectly PA gift shop.  The store stocks Pennsylvania-made treats such as Tastycakes, Pennsylvania […]

Tidbits for travelers: Pink’s at LAX, $5 haircuts at PDX

07/27/10
(Photo credit: Jay Berkowitz/LAWA photographer) Hot dog fans rejoice. There’s now a branch of Pink’s Hot Dogs in the pre-security food court at the Tom Bradley International Terminal (TBIT) at Los Angeles International Airport. On the menu: the LAX International Dog, based on a “recipe” suggested by an airport employee. And in Oregon, there’s now […]

Souvenir Sunday at Spokane Int’l Airport

07/25/10
Traffic was slow heading into Spokane International Airport on Friday because most drivers had their eyes on the sky. I don’t blame them: the USAF Thunderbirds and other military flight demonstration teams were practicing for this weekend’s Skyfest 2010 at Fairchild Air Force Base. Inside the airport, flights were delayed while practice flights took place. […]

Souvenir Sunday: cherries & more from Mineta San Jose International Airport

07/11/10
Each Sunday at StuckatTheAirport.com we take a look at some of the fun and inexpensive souvenirs you can find at airport gift shops. This week’s treats come from Mineta San Jose International Airport (SJC), which just opened its new high-tech Terminal B to the public. At SJC, there’s free wireless Internet access throughout the terminals, […]

Ice-cream. At the airport, the hotel and beyond.

07/07/10
We’re having a heat wave. Well, a lot of the country is having a heat wave. The kind of tropical heat wave Ella Fitzgerald, Marilyn Monroe and Gale Storm sang about. And when there’s a heat wave there’s only one thing to do: eat ice-cream and lots of it. Back in the 1984, President Ronald […]
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