Walking into the arrivals lounge, I was struck by how bright and clean everything appeared.
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Later, in the departures lounge, I watched the landing of a huge United States Air Force transport plane, which disgorged lots of equipment and loaded several lorries-full of troops.
So as I write, I am in an outdoor lounge on my third martini, smoking a water pipe in the Atlantis hotel in Dubai.
Eurovision fever had also spread to Copenhagen airport, where I was greeted in the arrivals lounge by scores of people holding and waving flags for various countries.
While my camping colleagues all had only one room, I could invite others over to lounge and chat in my 3 room tent mansion: Welcome to Chez Jess!
As the door to the lounge closed behind them, I heard loud whoops.
Lara makes for awesome viewing, although I would rather watch him from a lounge chair when he is up against one of the other countries.
"If this happened to me, I would take refuge in the American Airlines lounge and have a few drinks and wait because there is very little one can do, " said George Hobica, founder of travel deal site Airfarewatchdog.
In the 30 minutes I spoke with him yesterday in his Model Lounge at the Gansevoort Park Avenue South Hotel, eight or 10 different young, beautiful models came up to kiss him before they left for their next show.
Nonetheless, last Thursday I found myself in a near-empty Tribeca lounge preparing to try custom-designed drinks from Effen Vodka, a Dutch brand seeking to reinvent itself.
So I sat, increasingly thirsty, in the dusty departure lounge cursing the fact there were no fans to ease the heat.
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Before he could reply, I had reached his side and sat down on a lounge chair next to him, a striped one.
As things turned out, it was a pretty monotonous evening, and I was regretting my mistake long before Arthur came into the lounge bar and stood waiting for someone to serve him.
In one scenario, I checked in at an airport, got access to the business lounge and then got through security, all by tapping my phone at various stages.
On North Claiborne Avenue, in the shadow of the I-10 viaduct, is the Mother-in-Law Lounge, named after the 1961 hit of the same name by homegrown hero Ernie K-Doe (given name: Ernest Kador Jr.).
No fancy lunches at Spago, frequent mentions in the gossip columns or "Look at me, I'm sitting in a power booth" drinks at the Polo Lounge.
All I can say is that The Peninsula Hotel is just across the street and their rooftop lounge is exceptional!
"I had a really good night out at Silencio, " she says, of a semiprivate club and lounge complex opened by film director David Lynch.
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