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12.09.2023 - 18:44 / travelpulse.com / Eric Bowman
The airport lounge life is a taste of luxury every traveler needs to experience at least once.
Whether you’re at your home airport or one halfway around the world, they’re all delivering quality experiences to make the journey easier, and better, for travelers.
This year, American Express Centurion Lounge Network hit its 10-year anniversary. And recently, a new Capital One Lounge opened at Washington Dulles International Airport.
We all use credit cards every day, so why not maximize that daily spending to receive benefits in travel? The airport lounge can be one of those.
And on those long international journeys, access to a nice lounge can help unwind from the whirlwind of a trip and get you in the right mood before a long flight home.
On my recent trip to Jamaica – a destination that just announced a new online entry form – I had the pleasure of experiencing Club Mobay at Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay.
The massive space had all the essentials, and I definitely ate more Jamaican patties than I needed to…but then again, how could I resist?
Indulge when in the lounge life.
What airport lounge do you love the most?
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Between 1850 and 1852, a mighty, squat stone fort rose from a low-lying island in the Milford Haven Waterway in Wales. Originally proposed by Thomas Cromwell, chief minister to King Henry VIII, more than 300 years earlier, Stack Rock Fort—about 800 yards off the coast—was built to protect the Royal Dockyard at Pembroke Dock from attack by sea. It had a 30-foot tower, walls nine feet and nine inches thick, and housed three large cannons and one smaller one. A few years later casemates were added, and by 1870, the fort got a major makeover, inspired by the threat of Napoleon III. A new battery was added, able to hold up to 175 soldiers and five officers. Most of the fort’s useful life was spent undergoing upgrades, and it only really saw active use during World War I. In 1929 it was finally decommissioned, disarmed, and scoured for useful materials. Since then, the lonely three-story fort has sat vacant but for crashing waves, nesting gulls, and opportunistic plants.
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