AmexRuislip
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What hotel was it, we stayed in the Eden Mar, Funchal, very nice.
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[Travel] Unusual airports
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What hotel was it, we stayed in the Eden Mar, Funchal, very nice.
Lower West Stander
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La Guardia is unusual in that it is so incredibly shit for serving a city as large as NY.
As well as being a total dump, there is no public transport into Manhattan.
What’s that all about?
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As well as being a total dump, there is no public transport into Manhattan.
What’s that all about?
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Publius Ovidius
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We stayed at the savoy gardens in Funchal which we have just booked for another week around Easter ....we were put up Saccharum in calheta which was absolutely fabulous.
Apart from the fact that it is a decent walk from the centre, towards the lido, the savoy gardens is very cheap and it is amazing value as it is superb. We are stuck with school holidays so cost is certainly a issue. The mrs works at a school. Hence cruising is cost prohibitive now due to the dollar pound rate. We are doing a 5 star hotel in Corfu for two weeks for miles less that a cruise!
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boik
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Barra airport on the Outer Hebrides is fun. Not flown there myself, just paddled!
thedonkeycentrehalf
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To be fair, this is no different to London City. I love the little quirks of LCY - the three point turns the planes do to park up, the way they use the Shard as a giant traffic cone to turn around before landing...
Juan Albion
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Yes, but they have British air traffic controllers.
Barham's tash
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From personal experience two that stick out are St Lucia and Mombasa for having the perception of basically landing in a residential area with about a ten metre expanse of grass either side of the runway, a chain link fence and then either a road or someone’s back garden immediately next to it.
I’m pretty sure in St Lucia I saw goats tethered to the chain link fence.
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I’m pretty sure in St Lucia I saw goats tethered to the chain link fence.
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I quite like Gibraltar airport whose runway basically runs across the Spanish entrance and exit to/from the country, necessitating all traffic to be held up whenever a plane flies in or out, which sometimes amounts to as much as two hours a day. A diversion route was planned in 2009 but to-date still hasn't been built!
Tom Hark Preston Park
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Munich airport has its own brewery and beer garden. And damned tasty beers they are too.
Shimla Airport always amused me. They simply shaved the top off of a mountain.
And then there's Malabo Airport in Equatorial Guinea. Not actually all that remarkable at all. I just like saying I've been to Equatorial Guinea. I've been to Equatorial Guinea. Did I mention that?
And then there's Malabo Airport in Equatorial Guinea. Not actually all that remarkable at all. I just like saying I've been to Equatorial Guinea. I've been to Equatorial Guinea. Did I mention that?
Mexican Seagull
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Yes this is a fun one as is Thorshavn on the Faeroe Islands
banjo
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Boa Vista airport. Cape Verde.
Official Old Man
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Samana airport, Dominican Republic. Thomson flew there for one summer only. On the flight I was on the pilot flew low over the runway to take a look. Just a small strip of runway and a couple of sheds and a massive Dreamliner plane.
Raphael Meade
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Nothing too unusual about the actual airport but enjoyed flying out of Flagstaff, AZ when security was all closed up and we were told we'd have to wait 30 minutes because the TSA had "gone out for burritos"
ferring seagull
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Male Airport, the Maldives is interesting in that the airport is an island in itself - there is nothin else there and there is sea at either end of 'the' runway and the only way out is seaplane to whichever island in the archipelago you are headed or dhoni (converted fishing boat) to the island upon which the capital Mali is located !
Will post a pic if I can locate !
Will post a pic if I can locate !
happypig
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Didn't they have to extend the runway because of a nasty incident a long while back (hence the grass to tarmac at the end look)?