Sometimes the worst part of the trip is the airport lounge, where you may have to wait for hours in busy, uncomfortable departure lounges for your flights, so here are a few tips to help make your time at the airport much more productive and enjoyable:

• Facilities – many of the larger airports have a vast range of facilities on offer, from shops and restaurants through to gyms, spas and beauty salons.  Once you have checked in your luggage spend some time exploring the airport, and take advantage of any services it has to offer, including the business lounges which are often available for a small additional fee and allow you to surf the internet, make phone calls and faxes and often have a number of free national and international newspapers and magazines.
• Crèche Services – if you are travelling with young children is can be a good idea to book them into an airport crèche service, which will have lots of things to keep them entertained from toys through to group story times.  This can make your stay at the airport much more enjoyable for both parents and children.

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If you are worried about your carbon footprint then you may be concerned about travelling on holiday, and what carbon emissions this will contribute to the atmosphere.

Unfortunately although plane journeys are the quickest and cheapest way to travel long distances abroad they do have the highest carbon footprint, but there are a few ways you can help to offset this, and still allow you to enjoy the benefits of affordable travel:

• Carbon Neutral – this website helps you to calculate your carbon footprint, and offset it by buying goods that contribute to projects that aim to reduce and soak up carbon emissions such as tree planting and green energy research and development.
• Climate Care – this website will also help you to offset your carbon footprint by providing a number of projects you can contribute to that help to address the balance of emissions such as rainforest management and funding for low energy light bulbs in developing countries.