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Bright Easter greetings from Schiphol Airport

04/10/09

Stuck at an airport on Easter? If you’re lucky it will be at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, where the flower experts from the famed Keukenhof gardens have arranged a display of long yellow tulips that stretches for almost 100 feet. These aren’t the only flowers blooming at Schiphol right now. Last week, Keukenhof unveiled a flower →

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Spring flowers at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport

04/01/09

For the next two weeks it will definitely be spring at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport – thanks to an indoor flower garden filled with ten of thousands of lilacs and purple and white tulips in full bloom. The garden has a flower stall and picnic tables where travelers can sit and rest and take in the →

Stuck at Schiphol: Café Chocolat now open at Amsterdam Airport

03/29/09

Here’s just one more reason why Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is one of my favorite places in the world: in addition to a great airport-wide art collection, a wedding service program, a casino, great kids’ play areas, and the on-site Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Schiphol (and museum shop), the airport now has the Netherlands’ first Café Chocolat, serving →

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Tulip field at Amsterdam Airport

03/13/09

Heading to or through Amsterdam Schiphol Airport during the first two weeks of April? You could happily spend your whole vacation at the airport, what with the massage spa, the snooze chairs, the casino, the kids play area, the museum, and all the great shops, restaurants and artwork. They even have a YOTEL there, where →

Stuck at the airport? My tips in the Hartford Courant

06/29/08

Had a nice talk with Jesse Leavenworth, a reporter from the The Hartford Courant, a while back about my favorite topic – airports with great amenities – and see that his article has hit the paper. I chatted with Leavenworth about some of my favorite airports to spend time in – including San Francisco International →

Airport weddings

06/09/08

It wedding season and time for those news stories about people getting married on roller coasters, underwater and in other unusual places such as… airports? Of course! For my next column on USATODAY.com, I’ve been gathering stories about couples that have tied the knot at airports. The column should be posted soon, but in the →

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