Amsterdam Schiphol Airport
Suspicious ‘priest’ nabbed with 3.5 kilos of cocaine at Schiphol Airport
As if the Catholic Church didn’t have enough problems already, a man claiming to be a priest was caught yesterday trying to bring 3.5 kilos of cocaine into the Netherlands at Schiphol Airport. Evidently he refused a routine body search on religious grounds and then was spotted getting in a different security line to try again.
The man had just arrived from Bolivia and was carrying the cocaine in packages taped to his body. My favorite part of the story is that he continues to insist he’s a priest and he feels his …
Date: January 12th, 2008 |
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Amsterdam Airport Layover Guide - Get out of Schiphol Airport
As popular as Amsterdam is as a destination, it seems to be just as popular as a place to change planes in the middle of a long journey, especially if your flight to Amsterdam is on either KLM or Northwest. The great news is that Amsterdam is one of the very few cities in the world where even a short layover can be turned into a fascinating, albeit brief, look at the heart of town.
This subject has quite a few different aspects to it, and not all of them will …
Date: November 5th, 2007 |
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Schiphol’s upcoming answer to capsule hotels
If you thought capsule hotels were only for drunken Japanese salarymen who’ve missed the last train back to the Tokyo suburbs, you were right, but things are changing. A British company called Yotel has already opened one capsule hotel in London at Gatwick Airport, and another will open soon at Heathrow’s Terminal 4. But the exciting news here is that in early 2008 they are opening a 56-cabin Yotel at Schiphol Airport so those flying into Amsterdam have another option.
Okay, so they aren’t exactly capsules, they are bigger, but they are the next best thing for claustrophobia-free travelers who want a room at the airport. Unlike Toyko’s capsule hotels, these cabins aren’t the size of a large coffin and they aren’t stacked like lockers at a bus station. Screw those capsules anyway. I’m known for throwing lavish parties in my hotel rooms that make the events P. Diddy gives feel like a day at Auschwitz in comparison, and it would be hard to fit more than 2 or 3 strippers in those real Japanese-style capsules. And that’s not even including all the so-called VIPs that always seem to turn up at my parties uninvited (and yes, I’m referring to you, Angelina and Brad).
Date: November 19th, 2007 |
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Schiphol Airport of the Future
Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport is already famous as Europe’s favorite airport both for its efficiency and its design, and things are scheduled to get even better in the coming years. At the just-concluded Check-In 2007 convention in Las Vegas, which is an annual gathering of airport and airline officials, Schiphol managers showed off a futuristic system that should speed up passenger check-in during the next 7 years, even as passenger traffic is estimated to increase by 50% at the airport.
In the Amsterdam model demonstrated at the convention, virtually everything will be …
Date: September 13th, 2007 |
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