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Snack Saturday at Houston Hobby Airport

09/04/10
Our occasional Snack Saturday feature highlights foods to look for when you’re stuck at the airport. This week’s snacks come from Houston Hobby Airport, where the Rodeo Houston store carries Alamo Crackers Wild West Peanut Brittle And these adorable chocolate cow cookies. Tomorrow – on Souvenir Sunday – we’ll put the snacks away and take […]

Souvenir Sunday: Lovin’ the lobsters at Boston Logan International Airport

08/29/10
Each Sunday here at StuckatTheAirport.com is Souvenir Sunday;  the day we give thanks for the fun, inexpensive souvenirs you can find when you’re stuck at the airport. This week’s treats come to us from Boston Logan International Airport’s Boston Tops shop, where the clerk on duty was kind enough (after a bit of cajoling..) to […]

Snack Saturday: Ice-cream-making-machine at Boston Logan

08/27/10
Our occasional Snack Saturday feature highlights food treats you can find at airports. This week we take a look at a MooBella ice-cream-making machine at Boston Logan International Airport. One of two such machines at the airport (there’s one by the United Airlines gates in Terminal C), the make-your-own-ice-cream machine by the Air Tran gates […]

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 […]

Fresh airport amenities for summer travel

07/30/10
In my msnbc.com column this week –Fresh airport amenities make the wait fly by – I offered a run-down of some of the programs and services air travelers can take advantage of this summer. One amenity that didn’t make it into the story is self-service ice-cream sundae machine at Boston Logan International Airport. Using a […]

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 […]

Snack Saturday: automated treats

07/17/10
I still get a kick out of seeing those ZOOM vending machines (officially “automated retail stores”) at airports offering everything from iPods to products from Best Buy, Sephora and the SkyMall catalog But these aren’t the only unusual vending machines you’ll find  in airports. Last time I passed through Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, the SHOP […]

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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