I spent a morning touring Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport in search of new amenities and services to share. Along the way my tour guide, Marianne de Bie (who reminded me that she’d been my tour guide almost ten years ago!) shared some stories about what the Schiphol staff did to try to make stranded people more […]
(courtesy: Jorge Sierra / WWF-Spain) Attention travelers and aliens assigned to monitor our planet from outer space: you may notice major landmarks, tourist attractions, and large areas of many cities and towns around the world going dark for an hour on March 27. Do not be alarmed. It’s just Earth Hour, a rolling, global black-out […]
Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport has more than 100 shops, an equal number of cafes, pubs and restaurants, casinos, a Yotel, a great art collection and a branch of the Rijksmuseum that’s currently showing the Sunny Skies exhibition, featuring nine works by Dutch 17th century landscape artists inspired by the Italian landscape. Speaking of inspiration, Schiphol’s Cone […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I spent a morning touring Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport in search of new amenities and services to share. Along the way my tour guide, Marianne de Bie (who reminded me that she’d been my tour guide almost ten years ago!) shared some stories about what the Schiphol staff did to try to make stranded people more […]
(courtesy: Jorge Sierra / WWF-Spain) Attention travelers and aliens assigned to monitor our planet from outer space: you may notice major landmarks, tourist attractions, and large areas of many cities and towns around the world going dark for an hour on March 27. Do not be alarmed. It’s just Earth Hour, a rolling, global black-out […]
Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport has more than 100 shops, an equal number of cafes, pubs and restaurants, casinos, a Yotel, a great art collection and a branch of the Rijksmuseum that’s currently showing the Sunny Skies exhibition, featuring nine works by Dutch 17th century landscape artists inspired by the Italian landscape. Speaking of inspiration, Schiphol’s Cone […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]