HAVING A LONG layover while waiting for your next flight at the airport is often an unpleasant experience, but some airports are adding a variety of entertainment features to make your wait as enjoyable as possible.
These airports have everything from IMAX movie theaters to golf courses and rooftop pools.
From an on-site brewery with live music at the Munich Airport to the planetarium café in Tokyo, here are some airports where you won’t mind having a bit of a wait for your next flight.
It has a two-story butterfly garden with a 27-foot waterfall, a cacti garden with around 40 species of cacti, and orchid and sunflower gardens.
It also hosts a rooftop pool, several in-terminal hotels, one of the world’s tallest airport slides at four stories high, and a fish spa that offers treatments like hot stone massages, fish pedicures, and ear candling.
There’s a reason it’s regularly ranked the No 1 airport in the world.
The airport is home to the world’s biggest duty-free store which measures a staggering 58,000 square feet. You can also head to their G-Force Gym where you’ll find a swimming pool, shower and massages or try out the fern Zen gardens for some relaxation.
Here travellers can gaze at millions of stars that light the Starry Cafe planetarium, or sample traditional sushi, ramen, kushiage, tonkatsu, and sukiyaki in its vibrant Edo Marketplace.
You can sample staple German beers at the airport’s Airbräu brewery, which houses a beer garden with live music, or test your surfing skills at its ‘Surf & Style’ event that runs from July to August and offers the world’s biggest artificial standing wave.
This airport in Austin Texas hosts live music concerts giving you the chance to catch shows featuring everything from jazz to swing.
It has two movie theatres, an ice skating rink, 18-hole putting course, and seven gardens. You’ll also find live music and dance performances at its culture centre.
Travellers can enjoy a round on its nine-hole golf course, catch a flick on the country’s largest IMAX Screen, take your children to the Dream Come True Education Park (which offers a mini-version of a nursery, hospital, spaceship, fire station, and airport), or play the latest PS3 games at the PlayStation Gateway gaming area.
Here you can rent sports bikes, inline skates, and Nordic walking poles to explore the area outside the airport during long layovers.
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