Best and Worst Airports of 2008 Announced

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January 5th, 2009 airport sleeper Leave a comment Go to comments

With more than 6500 of your votes and 650 airport reviews, I am pleased to announce sleepinginairports.com’s picks for best and worst airports of 2008. This is not a contest on architectural design and latest airport related technology, the winners of our prestigious (lol!) Golden Pillow Award have done so as a result of providing travellers with a pleasureable airport experience, a tolerance towards overnight sleepers, comfortable seating, facilities to keep people entertained and friendly staff/customs and security agents.

There are no big surprises in the Best Airport Category. Singapore Changi remains the most popular airport for the 12th year running. With its hotel like facilities including spas, sleep lounges with specially designed “snooze chairs”, gardens, movie theatres, games rooms, music lounges, live entertainment, swimming pool and Jacuzzi, free WiFi and free city tours, its easy to see why “Club Changi” is tops with air travellers. Runners Up were Seoul Incheon and Hong Kong.

This year we also had regional voting. Here are the regional best airports:

Europe - AMSTERDAM, Netherlands
North America - SAN FRANCISCO, USA
Caribbean, Central & South America - RIO DE JANEIRO GIG, Brazil
Middle East - DUBAI, United Arab Emirates
Africa - JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
Asia - SINGAPORE

View the runners up in each region here.

worst airport award On the other side of the tarmac, we have the worst airports. These are the airports that you do all you can to avoid. After years of vying for worst airport title, Paris Charles de Gaulle has come out on top as the airport you will do anything to avoid. Reviewers, often using very colourful language in their descriptions, complain of homeless people , filthy washrooms and uncomfortable seating. It’s not all bad though. While many experiences at CDG were bad, the trick seems to be making your way over to the newer terminal - Terminal 2. Apparently it’s cleaner and there are no homeless people there.