Business Meetings Abroad where? Airport lounges

 Airport Lounge or Hotel in Transit
a) Choices
Check out the airline lounges airside and land side. Check time needed for stopover and be sure to adjust for changing time zones.
b) Challenges
You may be too short of time to leave the airport on one leg of the journey or going in one direction.
c) Solutions
Meet at an airport lounge or airport restaurant or airport hotel restaurant going one direction. Meet again on return journey.
d) Find out if any airlines affiliated to your carrier have lounges airside or land side. Also if the person you are meeting has a link with an airline which has a lounge.
e) If all else fails, find a coffee shop in the airport.
f) Or a coffee shop in a hotel adjoining the airport. Or a hotel with a shuttle bus.

I had this problem as a travel writer visiting St Louis in the USA. The PR for the city arranged to meet me and my family on our outbound stopover in the middle of the American continent flying East for only about an hour between East coast Washington DC and West coast America. During the first stop we went through the paperwork, brochures showing attractions of the city and arranged our itinerary for our return which he arranged whilst we were away.

On the longer return trip we had a four or five hour stopover. The PR for the tourist board met us at the airport with a car and took us on a tour of the city to a hotel, a restaurant for a quick lunch, and a museum, then up the Gateway Arch (pre-arranged with the attraction PR with complimentary tickets for the press but also to bypass the queue), then raced back to the airport to get us on the flight home.

Angela Lansbury is a travel writer, photographer, author, speaker.
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