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Home » Family Travel

Airport Playgrounds

Airport playgrounds serve as welcome relief for travel-weary parents. The playground at the Colorado Springs airport served as a highlight to many family trips. We lived there 3 years and the kids still ask if they can play on the helicopter. I just read an article in Hemispheres Magazine spotlighting playspaces at major airports in Chicago, Seattle-Tacoma, San Francisco, Singapore, and Munich. The LA Times Daily Travel and Deal Blog noted another listing of airport playspaces in their column back in December.

  • "Ground control: Airport play places provide fun for little ones and a well-earned break for big ones,"Hemispheres (The inflight magazine of United Airlines), May 2009 (pp. 22-23).
  • "Pre-flight help for parents and kids: Airport play areas for kids," LA Times Travel and Deal Blog, December 2008.

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