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Airport Travel Tips

Posted by Lea Woodward 31 July, 2007

Following our recent journeys, here are some tips we picked up in transit…

Free Wireless Connections:
1) At San Juan (Puerto Rico) you can get free wireless access by signing up to the service. It’s free, you just need to give them your details. Doesn’t seem to like some websites but generally you can surf as usual with the usual precautions for an unsecured network.

2) At Newark (New Jersey), you can get free wireless access around gates C80-90 or anywhere near the Continental Airlines President’s Club which is the network you can connect to. I also noticed that a Boingo connection is available here if you have an account.

3) At Trinidad (West Indies) airport, you can also get free wireless access anywhere in the airport.

Layovers & Connections:
1) At San Juan, it would be sensible to fly with American Airlines if you can, rather than Continental. The connecting baggage process is far simpler with AA and as soon as you come through customs, you can dump your bags on the AA Transfer baggage check. With Continental, it’s not that obvious and we went round-and-round trying to find the connecting bag drop. Still didn’t find it (or perhaps we did) and ended up just taking it back to the main check-in area for Continental.

2) If you have a long (4 hours+) layover at San Juan, there are several hotels in the vicinity where you can use the facilities. We haven’t done this yet but will be doing so in September.

3) If you have a long (4 hours+) layover at Newark airport, it’s worth taking a trip to the Jersey Springs outlet mall. Currently, you take the skytrain to station P4 and then there’s a shuttle bus taking you direct to the mall (takes about 10 minutes). You then buy a $3 token for the journey back. It’s a huge mall with outlet stores for all the major brand names such as Banana Republic, Abercrombie & Fitch, Saks 5th Avenue, Nike, etc. etc. An easy side trip if you’d rather not stay in the airport for hours. The only drawback is the poor selection of food options at the mall.


            

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