UNDERSTANDING THE TRAVELLER

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Bravo Doha! Cost saving on your flight and travel itinerary, and have the overnight overhaul changeover? No added stress, Doha Hamad International has got you covered. Arriving at night into this bustling international airport can be overwhelming as much as it is energising, when you finally need to check-out, disengage and shut-eye, you can do so with some ease. Curated chill zones are found just off the main gathering spaces and corridor highways. Sleeping pods, quiet rooms, tech plug-in points and even work stations. No need to check into a Hotel or head out into the unknown abis, just step into one of these open access lounges and recharge, refresh and unplug from the fast moving travelator.

Another cool feature this global airport understands is the trolley phenomenon, slick mobile luggage trolleys are used, as in most cases this isn’t your destination. And so your bigger carrier lies still in transit, so nip around wherever you need to be on this grandscale shopping destination experience floor, with swift ease.

Saving on your purchase budget (this is not your destination yet), and not yet ready to check-out of the sensory experience. Take-in some of the art sculptures and exhibitions also lining the gathering spaces, which allow for discovery and play, oversized wooden crafted pieces fit within the tall oversized ceilings, a refreshing escape for the tired traveller and those with accompanying kids.

The reality is a constant influx of flights and travellers, even between crazy hour (00.00-06.00), day and night appear seamless and the time or time zone factor less an issue, which is helpful. Guess meaning that you’re not feeling alone or left to your own (Think: The Terminal), when you feel that you would be, others are in the same boat, and you have a place to put your head and leave your bag in safety.

Oh, and if somehow you left your designer trucker cap somewhere on a tram that you took around midnight the night before.. getting fast-tracked from one station platform to the next. Don’t worry, their friendly, competent security information checkpoints will radio it in, calling out the now coded item and have it personally delivered to you. Next level service excellence, and leaving you feeling like the rightful owner and not some opportunist kidnapper of caps left explaining your story to security police, down some dark alley “make-shift” security office.

Travel is exciting, it’s about the journey not just the destination, but it does come with plenty considering logistical factors and things to stay on top of. If an airport can make your experience seamless whilst creating an amazing product and combined with excellent service, what’s stopping you from playing all the way through. A night over at Doha’s Hamad International, piece of cake ..and a Starbucks coffee.