7 Ways To Cool Your Jets at an Airport

As a nervous flyer I could never understand it when people said ‘my holiday starts as soon as I get to the airport’. Hanging around in an airport for a couple of hours with a million and one scenarios of how the flight was going to go running through my head was certainly not relaxing. I fly a lot – usually a couple of times a month and only recently have I come to learn that you can chill out and actually enjoy being at an airport, which in turn relaxes me for the flight.

Gatwick Airport: No1 Airport Lounges

I’ll be honest – I’m a massive fan of budget airlines, it means we can visit loads of wonderful places in Europe for only a few quid, sometimes even less than £10. How could anyone complain about that? In fact we have £9.99 flights booked in a couple of weeks to Hamburg, Germany. It costs us more on the train from our town to the nearest city. When our flight is only a couple of hours or so I can quite happily live without a drink and something to eat. International flights normally offer drinks and food in the price of the ticket, however more and more now are offering a base price ticket which doesn’t include a bag, a seat reservation or refreshments, very much following the principles of budget air travel. We flew to New York last week with Norwegian Air, one of the airlines that offers this service, meaning we could fly there and back for a bargain £260 each! We therefore booked No1 Airport Lounge at Gatwick airport before our journey to ensure that we had the opportunity to have something to eat and drink and relax before the 8 hour flight.