From JFK’s retro dream TWA Hotel to sleeping in the cockpit of a vintage plane in Stockholm, here are ten of the best ways to spend the night at an airport. I would stay at the Frankfurt Hilton even if not flying (not sponsored). This architectural glass masterpiece fosters emotional attachments; maybe it’s the airy lobby that appears like a light at the end of the darkness of a delayed flight tunnel, the to-go breakfast boxes when catching ridiculously early budget carriers, or the glass cube lifts whizzing passengers into the atrium Willy Wonka-style.

It’s cutting-edge futuristic, has a date-night worthy restaurant, Rise, with forest views, and connects into Frankfurt airport’s belly via an indoor walkway. Hilton.com Deciding whether the dazzling Darwin or fabulous Frankfurt abode should score top billing is the kind of struggle that keeps me awake at night.

But what’s clear is this brand-new hotel will cause plane no-shows spikes, as guests linger in cabanas under palm trees by the 61-metre pool or frolic in private villa pools. The marriage of the neighbouring hotels thanks to a dowry of $30 million from parent company Airport Development Group (ADG) has created a supernova one-stop airport resort, bonus points for the deep Indigenous engagement, from design to their Indigenous Training Academy. darwinairporthotels.

com.au Of course Singapore Changi Airport, regularly voted the world’s best airport, houses the hotel named the world’s best airport hotel in the.