The world’s ‘most beautiful airport’ is open air with free drinks and a spa

Airports are usually synonymous with stress: agelong security lines, delays, and huffy dashes to the gate.

But 1 airdrome successful Thailand is putting regular travel hubs to shame.

Samui International Airport, connected the picturesque land of Koh Samui, Thailand, is astir wholly outdoors.

With its tropical gardens, ponds, and open-air walkways, it feels much similar a luxury edifice wherever you could sip unlimited piña coladas, alternatively than a bustling terminal. 

The retreat-like airdrome has adjacent dubbed itself ‘the astir beauteous successful the world’, and it’s casual to spot why. 

The airdrome swaps stuffy terminals and harsh fluorescent lighting for swings that place the runway, beanbags scattered connected the grass, and foliage-filled rivers.

Opened successful 1989 by Bangkok Airways, Samui International Airport offers home flights, chiefly connecting to Bangkok. 

One contented creator, @thesamtyler, shared his sojourn connected TikTok, declaring it ‘one of the astir unsocial airports successful the world’.

He adds: ‘You’ll find these astonishing small cafes and these beanbags wherever you tin conscionable beryllium down, relax, and chill. And if that’s not enough, they besides person swings, a river, and a batch of quality too.’ 

If you stroll astir the airport, Sam mentions you’ll find aspa wherever you tin get a massage to easiness distant immoderate pre-flight jitters.

Near the boarding gate, helium points retired a ‘courtesy corner’, wherever you tin assistance yourself to escaped drinks and snacks.

When it’s clip to board, you won’t person to get connected a stuffy autobus oregon bid to the terminal. Sam hops onto an open-air proscription cart and makes his mode to the plane.

In different video, TikToker @loretoportulas says: ‘This is astir apt the craziest airdrome lounge I’ve ever been to successful my full life.’

Once you walk information successful the thatched-roof main gate, she claims: ‘It conscionable keeps getting better. It feels much similar a park, not an airport.’ 

Commenters were arsenic impressed. One user, @theera1959, wrote: ‘Is it an airport? It looks much similar a resort.’

Another user, @archieslayz, agreed, saying: ‘The Koh Samui airdrome felt similar a resort.’ Although 1 little enthused idiosyncratic did constituent out: ‘It’s each amusive and games till it rains.’

Koh Samui is known for its crystal wide waters, achromatic soil beaches and lush wood landscapes. It’s a fashionable enactment destination too, with beachfront bars and full-moon parties.

It’s besides 1 of the locations of the newest season of The White Lotus, wherever the show’s high-flying travellers, created by Mike White, volition beryllium staying astatine the island’s luxurious Four Seasons Resort.

Prices for the luxury getaway doesn’t travel cheap, however, with rates starting from £992 per night.

It takes conscionable implicit an hr to get determination from Bangkok, with flights starting from astir £100 connected Skyscanner. 

It’s not the lone destination that has an outdoor airdrome – Hawaii is location to a fewer too.

Kona International Airport connected the Big Island, for example, is mostly open-air, with outdoor gardens and courtyards truthful passengers tin soak up the prima earlier their flights.

Palm Springs International Airport successful California, portion not afloat outdoors, has respective open-air elements. Most visitors thin to flock to the patio country to unbend connected the writer earlier their flight.

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