Trapped in Amsterdam airport

[Badjamin]

Been on holiday in France. After waiting 2hrs nearly for a delayed flight that is now cancelled due to horrific thunder storm I am now trapped in Amsterdam airport with the wife, the mother in law and step son and his girlfriend. Now where to sleep as all hotels booked up. No luggage. No bedding. Might find out in an hour if we are going to make the 09:20 flight... that's likely booked up... bit stuck... can't find alternate flights and my car is at leeds bradford airport.

This is the comfiest place they could find for the septegenarion mother in law to lay down.

 

[dubber36]

We were flying close to New York during 9-11 so...

 

[Badjamin]

We were flying close to New York during 9-11 so...

You win. Musta been quite a time that.

 

[Badjamin]

Update. Nana slept 3hrs. I aggressively paced around an abandoned gate then the wife catnapped on me. The kids are tetchy. KLM tried to put us on a return flight tomorrow night. Looks like we are getting an alternate flight thos morning. Problem sholved.

 

[DXX]

All part of flying, try sleeping on the floor of Mexico City Airport the locals wander in and wake you up to beg. You can’t even get a solid kip on the floor.

 

[Bargy62]

Tenerife Airport many moons ago 24hr strike by airport staff dumped at airport no planes no nothing except thousands of cockroachs that came out to play in the middle of the night try sleeping there

 

[Lubrown]

Weather related transport disruption, unlike your plane, is on the way up. Something we’re just going to have to get used to as weather events become more extreme more often.

But yeah, airports suck as a place for trying to sleep and airport hotels fill up fast.

You’d think, as we know what’s happening, we would take steps to adapt- not just travel but schools, hospitals etc. that have also been struggling in the recent heatwave, but we don’t seem to want to do that.
Ironically the first local school to close this week due to excess heat was the one that was fully rebuilt last year - the central atrium and all the glass made it unsafe long before the others in the area. What a waste of money! How can we be so blinkered with this stuff?

 

[Sasquatch]

We were flying close to New York during 9-11 so...

I was working in Pennsylvania when that kicked off. Phones and a load of the Internet went down and my family couldn't get hold of me for a few days, which was a bit scary for them.

I don't fly any more. Even when it's going well its foxtrotting chore.

 

[Dellmassive]

At least you have the forum to keep you entertained.

 

[DXX]

I think given the age of the MIL I would have booked an Air BNB in the outskirts of AMS and got an Uber.

 

[Pauly]

Anyone else have to google what septegenarion meant ?

 

[DXX]

Anyone else have to google what septegenarion meant ?

Like a T Rex but less teeth

 

[dubber36]

Anyone else have to google what septegenarion meant ?

Someone with a birthday in September. I knew that without having to look it up.

 

[monkeybusiness]

Hopefully you now have some positive news.
Can you leave the airport?

Surely there must be a hotel in Amsterdam itself?

 

[whodat]

Don't show any weakness or unhappy face.
If any of the family ask,
"it was all part of the holiday."
"All great fun."
"This was completely planned. It was a surprise part of the holiday for you lot - always looking out for y'all "
"Look - we have an extra night in the airport and can see all that amazin lightning."
"All your mates would be jealous at having this airport area to ourselves"
"Yes, I know you are tired and hungry but how often do you get to stay up to watch the sun rise"
etc etc

Brings me lots of happy memories camping in a tail end of a hurricane and having to guarantee that "the tent would be just fine and of course it was going to be a little bit windy, it's Wales".
That is another story.