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22-06-2014, 13.09.10
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Re: US airports: 'menacing, cramped and devoid of humanity'
"Martin" <me@address.invalid> wrote in message
news eqbq9hqa1l98ct1fcvugie1nalsksdad5@4ax.com...[color=blue]
> On Sat, 21 Jun 2014 15:20:01 +0000 (UTC), Erilar
> <drache@chibardun.netinvalid>
> wrote:
>[color=green]
>>"JohnT" <spamnot@hotmail.com> wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> "Erilar" <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote in message
>>> news:lo1beu$c53$1@dont-email.me...
>>>>
>>>> I grumble about the size of O'Hare in Chicago, but there are water
>>>> fountains.
>>>
>>> I may not be a typical traveller, but the availability or otherwise of
>>> water fountains has never figured at all in my evaluation of Airports.
>>> Has Erilar even flown into, or out of Geneva. There is a GIGANTIC water
>>> fountain quite near the Airport.[/color]
>>
>>Not one of my goals. I!ve only been in one Swiss airports, and that was
>>Zurich on departure, so I did have coins and don't remember hunting for a
>>free drink.(Ihad flown INto FRA that trip)[/color]
>
> You bought drinks from a machine with Euros in Swiss Franc land?[/color]
Doesn't seem at all unreasonable. IIRC you can pay to park your car in
Strabane using Euro
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>
> The place to go for free drinks at Zurich airport used to be the Swiss Air
> business class lounge.[/color]
and the entry criteria for such is?
You might just as well argue that the best place for free drinks in London
is the House of Lords bar.
(FTAOD, no I suspect that the drinks aren't actually free)
tim
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22-06-2014, 21.18.35
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Re: US airports: 'menacing, cramped and devoid of humanity'
"tim....." <tims_new_home@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:[color=blue]
> "Erilar" <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote in message news:lo4v6l$5ch$2@dont-email.me...[color=green]
>> "tim....." <tims_new_home@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> "[/color][/color]
>
> I'm struggling to understand the scenario of you not having any local
> money because you have just arrived and yet you are looking for a departure gate.[/color]
I had used my coins previously; I was only in London overnight, headed for
Eastern Europe, and still a bit jet-lagged[color=blue]
>
> I can only guess that you are changing flights off of a transatlantic onto a local flight?
>[color=green]
>> and barely grabbed the last open seat,[/color]
>
> Are we talking about the last seat in the departure lounge?[/color]
Yes.[color=blue]
>
> Again, it's not the fault of the airport if fellow pax are too rude to
> give up their set to a person in need.
>[color=green]
>> which was next
>> to one of those machines.[/color]
>
> This would be the machine that you didn't have the appropriate change for?
>
> I buy the criticism that the prices these machines are extortionate. But
> that is in no way unique to LHR. It is true of machines in 95% of the
> world's airports and 95% of the world's (manufactured) tourists attractions.
>[/color]
Oh , i know that 8-(. Actually, I had some coins left, but not enough, and
had foolishly thought I'd find water or a non-machine source of liquid
along my route. Obviously, my airport experience is not diverse enough,
being primarily Germany, Scandinavia, and Chicago for the last decade.
--
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad
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22-06-2014, 21.18.36
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Re: US airports: 'menacing, cramped and devoid of humanity'
Martin <me@address.invalid> wrote:[color=blue]
> On Sat, 21 Jun 2014 21:58:45 +0000 (UTC), Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid>
> wrote:
>[color=green]
>> Martin <me@address.invalid> wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> On Sat, 21 Jun 2014 15:20:01 +0000 (UTC), Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> "JohnT" <spamnot@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> "Erilar" <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote in message
>>>>> news:lo1beu$c53$1@dont-email.me...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I grumble about the size of O'Hare in Chicago, but there are water
>>>>>> fountains.
>>>>>
>>>>> I may not be a typical traveller, but the availability or otherwise of
>>>>> water fountains has never figured at all in my evaluation of Airports.
>>>>> Has Erilar even flown into, or out of Geneva. There is a GIGANTIC water
>>>>> fountain quite near the Airport.
>>>>
>>>> Not one of my goals. I!ve only been in one Swiss airports, and that was
>>>> Zurich on departure, so I did have coins and don't remember hunting for a
>>>> free drink.(Ihad flown INto FRA that trip)
>>>
>>> You bought drinks from a machine with Euros in Swiss Franc land?[/color]
>>
>> I normally have Euro coins left over from a previous trip. Since Zurich
>> was the end of my Swiss visit, I had some coins.[/color]
>
> The Swiss use Swiss Francs.[/color]
I arrived in Germany, however. By the time I left, I'd been in Switzerland
for well over a week.
--
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad
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23-06-2014, 03.54.15
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Re: US airports: 'menacing, cramped and devoid of humanity'
In article <lo47r5$tr0$2@dont-email.me>,
Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote:
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> >
> > I don't know why you have singled out LHR for not having water fountains
> > just because American airports do.
> >
> > IME most European ones don't, it isn't (wasn't) just London[/color][/color]
I've been at CDG looking for water fountains, hated the idea of paying 3
or 4 Euro for a 50cl bottle.
Just went to the bathroom and filled up my bottle from the sink.
But a couple of weeks back, I recall seeing water fountains at CDG with
signage encouraging people to fill up rather than buy more bottles.
As it turned out, I had AF lounge privileges so I didn't use it, but
maybe there's progress.
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23-06-2014, 09.23.50
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Re: US airports: 'menacing, cramped and devoid of humanity'
On Sun, 22 Jun 2014 18:18:36 +0000 (UTC), Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid>
wrote:
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>Martin <me@address.invalid> wrote:[color=green]
>> On Sat, 21 Jun 2014 21:58:45 +0000 (UTC), Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid>
>> wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> Martin <me@address.invalid> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 21 Jun 2014 15:20:01 +0000 (UTC), Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> "JohnT" <spamnot@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Erilar" <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote in message
>>>>>> news:lo1beu$c53$1@dont-email.me...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I grumble about the size of O'Hare in Chicago, but there are water
>>>>>>> fountains.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I may not be a typical traveller, but the availability or otherwise of
>>>>>> water fountains has never figured at all in my evaluation of Airports.
>>>>>> Has Erilar even flown into, or out of Geneva. There is a GIGANTIC water
>>>>>> fountain quite near the Airport.
>>>>>
>>>>> Not one of my goals. I!ve only been in one Swiss airports, and that was
>>>>> Zurich on departure, so I did have coins and don't remember hunting for a
>>>>> free drink.(Ihad flown INto FRA that trip)
>>>>
>>>> You bought drinks from a machine with Euros in Swiss Franc land?
>>>
>>> I normally have Euro coins left over from a previous trip. Since Zurich
>>> was the end of my Swiss visit, I had some coins.[/color]
>>
>> The Swiss use Swiss Francs.[/color]
>
>I arrived in Germany, however. By the time I left, I'd been in Switzerland
>for well over a week.[/color]
Dodn;t you have any coins left after your trip to Stonehenge?
--
Martin in Zuid Holland
[url]www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE_IUPInEuc[/url]
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23-06-2014, 09.27.45
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Re: US airports: 'menacing, cramped and devoid of humanity'
On Sun, 22 Jun 2014 17:54:15 -0700, poldy <poldy@kfu.com> wrote:
[color=blue]
>In article <lo47r5$tr0$2@dont-email.me>,
> Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote:
>[color=green][color=darkred]
>> >
>> > I don't know why you have singled out LHR for not having water fountains
>> > just because American airports do.
>> >
>> > IME most European ones don't, it isn't (wasn't) just London[/color][/color]
>
>I've been at CDG looking for water fountains, hated the idea of paying 3
>or 4 Euro for a 50cl bottle.
>
>Just went to the bathroom and filled up my bottle from the sink.
>
>But a couple of weeks back, I recall seeing water fountains at CDG with
>signage encouraging people to fill up rather than buy more bottles.
>
>As it turned out, I had AF lounge privileges so I didn't use it, but
>maybe there's progress.[/color]
Were the showers unlocked or are they still locked "because nobody uses them"?
--
Martin in Zuid Holland
[url]www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE_IUPInEuc[/url]
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23-06-2014, 19.42.41
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Re: US airports: 'menacing, cramped and devoid of humanity'
Martin <me@address.invalid> wrote:[color=blue]
> On Sun, 22 Jun 2014 18:18:36 +0000 (UTC), Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid>
> wrote:
>[color=green]
>> Martin <me@address.invalid> wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> On Sat, 21 Jun 2014 21:58:45 +0000 (UTC), Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Martin <me@address.invalid> wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, 21 Jun 2014 15:20:01 +0000 (UTC), Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> "JohnT" <spamnot@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> "Erilar" <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote in message
>>>>>>> news:lo1beu$c53$1@dont-email.me...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I grumble about the size of O'Hare in Chicago, but there are water
>>>>>>>> fountains.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I may not be a typical traveller, but the availability or otherwise of
>>>>>>> water fountains has never figured at all in my evaluation of Airports.
>>>>>>> Has Erilar even flown into, or out of Geneva. There is a GIGANTIC water
>>>>>>> fountain quite near the Airport.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not one of my goals. I!ve only been in one Swiss airports, and that was
>>>>>> Zurich on departure, so I did have coins and don't remember hunting for a
>>>>>> free drink.(Ihad flown INto FRA that trip)
>>>>>
>>>>> You bought drinks from a machine with Euros in Swiss Franc land?
>>>>
>>>> I normally have Euro coins left over from a previous trip. Since Zurich
>>>> was the end of my Swiss visit, I had some coins.
>>>
>>> The Swiss use Swiss Francs.[/color]
>>
>> I arrived in Germany, however. By the time I left, I'd been in Switzerland
>> for well over a week.[/color]
>
> Dodn;t you have any coins left after your trip to Stonehenge?[/color]
That wasn't the time i was so thirsty. I believe I had bought some
overpriced liquid that time.
--
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad
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24-06-2014, 00.04.50
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Re: US airports: 'menacing, cramped and devoid of humanity'
In article <d4ifq9hmbe1c068pgfon2cmfegl15gemt3@4ax.com>,
Martin <me@address.invalid> wrote:
[color=blue]
> On Sun, 22 Jun 2014 17:54:15 -0700, poldy <poldy@kfu.com> wrote:
>[color=green]
> >In article <lo47r5$tr0$2@dont-email.me>,
> > Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote:
> >[color=darkred]
> >> >
> >> > I don't know why you have singled out LHR for not having water fountains
> >> > just because American airports do.
> >> >
> >> > IME most European ones don't, it isn't (wasn't) just London[/color]
> >
> >I've been at CDG looking for water fountains, hated the idea of paying 3
> >or 4 Euro for a 50cl bottle.
> >
> >Just went to the bathroom and filled up my bottle from the sink.
> >
> >But a couple of weeks back, I recall seeing water fountains at CDG with
> >signage encouraging people to fill up rather than buy more bottles.
> >
> >As it turned out, I had AF lounge privileges so I didn't use it, but
> >maybe there's progress.[/color]
>
> Were the showers unlocked or are they still locked "because nobody uses them"?[/color]
Didn't check, it was a short flight so didn't even occur to me to use
them.
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