Originally Posted by
daz211
all airports are now full of retail, even Gatwick, but if you want to drive past an airport for an extra hour or so then good luck to you.
but I find it hard to believe if you had to fly to America on say BA and BA offered the route from STN and LGW and LHR that you would drive past STN just because it takes you two minutes to walk past some retail units but each to their own.
it's not just the retail outlets. It's the lack of seating, lengthy security queues, limited number of toilets (usually dirty), restricted choice of eating places, terrible choice of car parking options, and that's before we arrive back and face the lengthy delays at Border Control. Give me the STN of 25 years ago any day!