With low-budget flying options, delays and cancellations have become inseparable with airport visits.
Take it in your stride, suggests Canadian budget traveller Donna McSherry who started sleepinginairports.net in 1994 as a guidebook on the good, the bad and the ugly among the world's airports.
The site believes that if you are on a budget holiday and travelling cheap, why spend a fortune on accommodation? Instead, sleep over at airports. After all, there are food courts, loos and seating arrangements.
The site boasts of 6,650 user reviews on airports all over the world, from Addis Ababa to Paris, which shows their idea has takers. Easy to navigate, the site's main categories and links are on the home page.
Witty cartoons and survival tips on sleeping at airports are amusing. Unlike most travel sites, it doesn't have too many images so the pages load easily. Viewers can submit reviews too. The site has a Facebook page and a Twitter link.
India's airports find dishonourable mention in the worst airports category. Mumbai and Bangalore airports were termed "Airports from Hell", while Delhi got top honours as 2008's Worst Airport.
It got comments like "Special effort is taken to make sure no trace of toilet paper could be found" that was accompanied with a cartoon of an overflowing toilet.
But take heart from the fact that Paris' Charles De Gaulle Airport (2009 winner of the Worst Airport Award) was criticised as the "ugliest, dirtiest, messiest airport in the world".
In comparison, Singapore's Changi Airport was rated the best and received stellar comments such as, "Even if you have the cash to spring on a hotel room in Singapore, I would recommend a night in the airport".
Other quirky tidbits include photos of passengers sleeping at various airports and an online Airport Survival Store, where you can stock up on cocoon travel pillows, earplugs or amuse yourself with hilarious reads and games.
PS: Browse the section on sleeping inside an ATM booth, a park bench, a car trunk, or a survival guide to a night in a jail cell.
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