What do you think of the NAIA?

[Ako Si Jamie]

Poll to follow.

[grahamw48]

Put me down for a thumbs up please. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[Terpe]

Some airports are great places to spend time and others just the place to get your flight.
NAIA sits on the place to catch a flight.
There's a nice private VIP lounge there with a good range of eats and drinks. Not in the same class as BA at Heathrow but comfortable and quiet and the beer is ice cold

[London_Manila]

It gets a bad press but i have had few problems using it :smile:

[SimonH]

When I went in 2013 it was bloody awful, long queues and a tatty lounge with a few stale sandwiches. The new terminal is totally different, a vast improvement on the old one but still just average on a worldwide scale.

[KeithD]

The queues can be terrible. Check-in, immigration and security. :NoNo:

The airport itself is not bad though. It is better than Philadelphia in the US.

[grahamw48]

To me airports are just like bus stations....places to pass though as quickly as possible, with the lowest possible expenditure.
Naturally I always have ample homemade sandwiches with me, as well as other snacks and water. No need to be reliant upon ripoff airport food that has been sitting in the sun for hours and passed through lord knows who's hands.

In years gone by I'd have looked for the smoking room. Now it's wi-fi that's more of a priority.

[jake]

Love it!!
The off white decor always brings back happy childhood memories of sitting watching TV in a smoke filled living room.

[Ako Si Jamie]

Put me down for a thumbs up please. :xxgrinning--00xx3:You'll have to vote yourself Graham, as I've already voted. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[Ako Si Jamie]

I don't understand either why the NAIA has been dubbed the worst airport in the world. It's not that bad.

[grahamw48]

I believe it was based on the review of its sleeping arrangements, by one or two backbackers on some obscure website or other. :NoNo:

[Ako Si Jamie]

I believe it was based on the review of its sleeping arrangements, by one or two backbackers on some obscure website or other. :NoNo:Is this the one?

http://www.sleepinginairports.net/2013/worst-airports-world.htm

[Tawi2]

NAIA1 is shambolic,NAIA3 is an average transit route for me,shambolic also describes getting from 1-3 :doh if your unfortunate enough to be arriving PAL at 1 and flying south from 3 :NoNo: NAIA cant hold a candle to either Cebu or Davao when landing in the country,you only get 1 chance to make a first impression :wink:

[grahamw48]

Is this the one?

http://www.sleepinginairports.net/2013/worst-airports-world.htm

Yes...that's the one. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

Hardly relevant to most travellers I'd have thought, but of course the Phils govt. got wind of it and face was lost.

[Michael Parnham]

Not nice really!:thumbsdown:

[raynaputi]

Singapore Airport is what you call good :xxgrinning--00xx3:, not NAIA..hahaha. Wifi? You can't even connect to the flipping wifi. I had to use my 3G connection via my mobile. Food? Expensive for a low quality meal, unless of course you are willing to pay more for a good one. Very long queues are annoying, it's not just at some point but it's all the time. NAIA Terminal 2 and 3, they need to step up their services. Terminal 1, they need to get rid of it completely and replace with a new & modern one.

[raynaputi]

It's still in the current list of worst airports..

http://www.sleepinginairports.net/2014/worst-airports.htm

[stevewool]

Its to get from A to B thats all

[raynaputi]

Here's the best airports. Singapore Changi Airport still the best. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

http://www.sleepinginairports.net/2014/best-airports.htm

[Michael Parnham]

Here's the best airports. Singapore Changi Airport still the best. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

http://www.sleepinginairports.net/2014/best-airports.htm


Also Singapore Airlines! :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[grahamw48]

Ex-British RAF base. :smile:

My dad used to take us to the inter-services sports there.

[Arthur Little]

Here's the best airports. Singapore Changi Airport still the best. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

http://www.sleepinginairports.net/2014/best-airports.htm



Also Singapore Airlines! :xxgrinning--00xx3:

:iagree: on BOTH counts. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

Can't get over how far away from city centres *some of the airports listed are reported as being :nono-1-1: ... or could it be possible many of *those distances are an exaggeration?

[KeithD]

I like Afghanistan airport, as they explode fireworks around the plane as you come into land :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[grahamw48]

:icon_lol: :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[cheekee]

Here's the best airports. Singapore Changi Airport still the best. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

http://www.sleepinginairports.net/2014/best-airports.htm


Love Changi.

[Steve.r]

After all the new paint it still looks bad.

[London_Manila]

Hong Kong Airport is pretty impressive and well organised :smile:

[London_Manila]

To me airports are just like bus stations....places to pass though as quickly as possible, with the lowest possible expenditure.
Naturally I always have ample homemade sandwiches with me, as well as other snacks and water. No need to be reliant upon ripoff airport food that has been sitting in the sun for hours and passed through lord knows who's hands.

In years gone by I'd have looked for the smoking room. Now it's wi-fi that's more of a priority.

I love a full English breakfast at LHR before I fly out :smile:
£15 and a nice Caffe Latte included surely that wont break the bank :wink:

[grahamw48]

Thank goodness I never eat breakfast. £15 quid saved. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[KeithD]

£15 :yikes: I can get a huge KFC bucket for that! :biggrin:

[Arthur Little]

I love a full English breakfast at LHR before I fly out :smile:
£15 and a nice Caffe Latte included surely that wont break the bank :wink:

Break my heart, it would :cwm24:... forking out that amount of cash on a breakfast.

But then ... :anerikke: ... I'm a Scotsman! :Kilt:

[Michael Parnham]

I love a full English breakfast at LHR before I fly out :smile:
£15 and a nice Caffe Latte included surely that wont break the bank :wink:

Never buy any food out, would have cooked a nice breakfast at home!:xxgrinning--00xx3:

[Ako Si Jamie]

I love a full English breakfast at LHR before I fly out :smile:
£15 and a nice Caffe Latte included surely that wont break the bank :wink::yikes:

What do you get for that?

A full English eating out should cost around a fiver in my book. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[SimonH]

If you don't have it then pay for lounge access and then all food and drink is free :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[KeithD]

£15 Is a full English and two prostitutes in Manchester. :cwm24:

[grahamw48]

I had to laugh at the smoking 'facilities' at Manchester Airport.
After following the directions for half a mile and climbing a few flights of steps...assuming as a smoker, you haven't already expired on the way...you open the door and end up in what is basically an unheated bus shelter attached to the outside of the terminal...which can mean in winter....horizontal rain or snow to accompany all the coughing and wheezing. :icon_lol:

Glad I'm an ex-smoker now.

[KeithD]

You can't smoke in Manchester Airport, even though it is full of burnt kerosene fumes :cwm25:

[Arthur Little]

Talking about :Smokin: facilities ... Singapore's Changi Airport - as well as being fully *carpeted ... :anerikke: ... *at least in all of the parts I have traversed - has special Smoking Rooms, equipped with comfortable seating, pedestal-mounted ash trays, &c.

Yes, it could teach that HUGE cattle market at Heathrow - and ALL of the British so-called Airports I've passed through in my time - a lesson in terms of its general welcoming atmosphere :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[KeithD]

They should allow smoking on planes. I have no problem with people sitting on the wing having a puff :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[grahamw48]

They should allow smoking on planes. I have no problem with people sitting on the wing having a puff :xxgrinning--00xx3:

Yes, and they could put noisy kids outside too. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

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[Ako Si Jamie]

:icon_lol:

[Michael Parnham]

Yes, and they could put noisy kids outside too. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

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Love it :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[soulman1949]

It's improved over the past 5 years or so.

My first arrival was marred by a policeman who asked for "a token of appreciation" from me after he helped my g/f and me to meet up at the arrivals terminal! I didn't know where to go and I couldn't describe where I was for her to get to me so I asked for his help. I was shocked when he made his proposition but what was I going to do? He's a policeman, carrying a gun, I'm a foreigner first time in the country! Welcome to the Philippines! :-( TG for Du30!!

Alan