Budget Travel has always tried to celebrate the companies that make travelers' lives easier, more en

Budget Travel has always tried to celebrate the companies that make travelers' lives easier, seat maps airline flight assignment more enjoyable, and just plain better. Travel isn't exactly easy these days, and when a company dares to pull off a wonderful innovation, it deserves a hand.
On May 27th, the Novotel Auckland Airport opened in New Zealand with some qualities we wish airport hotels around the world would emulate. Rates start at $149, which isn't cheap, but sometimes it takes a higher-end brand to have the guts to try new things.
You can read comfortably in bed. Each headboard is contoured in a way for you to rest your back against it while sitting up in bed. In a nice touch, it's printed with images of the toi toi grasses native to New Zealand.
Rooms are quiet, but their windows are still large. Even though the hotel is only 160 feet away from the airport, its guests will hear no airplane noise "even from an Airbus A380 taking off," promises the company. But while some hotels achieve soundproofing by either having tiny windows, this Novotel kept its windows large but double glazed.
Its design reflects the local style. seat maps airline flight assignment Rather than use a cookie-cutter look that could be located anywhere, the stylish seat maps airline flight assignment lobby has "a living wall" of native plants and the restaurant has artwork by the country's Maori people.
This Novotel also has all the advantages you would otherwise expect of an airport seat maps airline flight assignment hotel: Its connected to the terminal, its restaurant is open all day, and its lobby has electronic monitors posting arrival and departures information.
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