Is the Aviator Farnborough the Sexiest Airport Hotel in the World?
Usually, the sexiest thing about an airport hotel is the fact that it offers an alternative to joining the mile-high club in some airplane lavatory. It’s a place to take the cute stranger who gave you the window seat (please be careful, people), sure…but usually it’s where your airline forced you to lay your head when they canceled your flight. So it came as a bit of a surprise to us that someone would even attempt to “reinvent” the airport hotel to make it “sexy.” And it came as even more of a surprise when the Times Online described it as such, calling it “rather impressive. And sexy.” We’re not non-believers — we’ve seen at least one stunning airport hotel in our time (shout out to the Grand Hyatt DFW Airport) — so we’re willing to sort of accept that the Aviator Farnborough in Hampshire (UK) may, in fact, be as sexy as it claims to be. Especially since it’s at one of those private-jet-only airports for rich folk and not a giant commercial madhouse like Heathrow or Gatwick. But
