This article expresses travel desires for the coming year, focusing on improved airport lounges, vibrant transportation hubs, and the elimination of unnecessary resort fees.
Around this time every year, travel media and online travel agencies release their lists for the trends we can expect to see in coming months. Some are obvious (hi, Paris and Rome); some are actually useful (airfare to East Asia is way down); and some are purely aspirational.Based on our collective expertise, we came up with our own wish list for what we’d like to see more of during our adventures this year — and what we could do without.
Enough with long lines, so-so food, and uninspiring vibes: Bring back the fun of airport lounges. We dig the Spanish menu, roving cheesecake carts, and warm decor of the Capital One Landing, a collaboration with celebrity chef José Andrés that opened in November at Reagan National Airport in the Washington metropolitan area.We don’t want to spend time at soulless transportation hubs. Give us lively culinary, cultural, and shopping destinations that just happen to have airplanes taking off and landing all around. Think of the music program at Nashville International, the local shops and restaurants and iconic carpet at Portland International’s new main terminal, and the new just about everything at New York’s LaGuardia.We don’t need the business center. We don’t want to pay for local phone service. (We already have phones.) We are never going to use the in-room record player. So please stop charging us for them in the guise of resort fees! The Biden administration took aim at what it called “junk fees” with a Federal Trade Commission rule that requires hotels to show fees up front — but that just means they can’t surprise you with the charges. While we’re at it, let’s drop the pet fees, to
TRAVEL TRENDS AIRPORT LOUNGES RESORT FEES TRANSPORTATION HUBS TRAVEL EXPERIENCE
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