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nice trip
     by mayss94 (October, 2008)
Reason for Stay: Connection between flights
Where: Landside and Airside
I found the airport very beautiful it s big and a lot of very helpful people who spoke with me in my language( french) contrary to other countries where they know how to speak but didn't want to... many things to do the only thing i disliked was the smoking room without air aspiration, lol more than 10 min inside was impossible, but very nice place1 person found this review helpful Was this Helpful?
Sleep on the Cheap
by dd-- (July, 2008)
Reason for Stay: Early flight departure
Where: Landside
Due to the vagaries of confirmed flight-timings, in late July 2008 I found myself over-night in Zurich for a 14 hour lay-over.
I arrived from Nis, Srbija, early in the evening, and was not due out to Montreal until late the next morning.
Being some-what averse to financing the required taxi transportation and subsequent hotel room for an over-night period of such brevity, I decided to camp out in the Aerodrome Concourse.
After doing the bag-drag past interminable rows of metal seating divided by table-top surfaces, I found myself at the Starbucks Cafe. With real upholstered seating, both singles & doubles! The cafe was closing, but this area was out-side the Cafe proper, and was not closed off from publc access.
I settled in. I noted it was becoming a some-what popular venue for persons presumably in my situation and my frame continued >>3 people found this review helpful Was this Helpful?
felt in kind-of danger in a kind-of-apparently safe place
by randychiara (August, 2008)
Reason for Stay: Early flight departure
Where: Landside
well, i came here around midnight taking the last train from zurich hbf and my check in was at 4am. Apparently zurich and so even the airport are safe, but it was just too wasy to arrive there, find a place and ry to sleep, no cops, no security, after 1 hour i started seeing some weird people, i don't know if they were passenger who looked really "bad" or if these were drug addicts/homeless. Plus there were a lot of man looking at me like I was a prostitute or something. it felt weird.so I never slept. REMEMBER EVERYTHING CLOSES DOWN UNTIL 4.30, so if you are thirsty you can only go outside on the way to the street and there you will find a vending machine...i really thought my experience here in this airport would be better. If I have to overnight certainly this is not the airport where I want to stay again, only if I were in big need of continued >>Was this Helpful?
Hints from airline staff at ZRH
by scandine (August, 2008) 
Reason for Stay: Other
Where: Landside
Some hints:
Starbucks in Terminal 2 has nice sofas which are available all night. Light there is a bit bright and there is some music on, but in general you can have a good rest there.
Best alternative would be the middle floor in terminal 2, next to the Forum 205/206. There is a good space underneat the coat-hangers: quiet, peaceful, dimly lit but still save, no music. Sometimes there is a guy with his dog crushing there, but he's friendly.
Toilets are nearby and also a police office. Otherwise there is only few staff passing.
Many people also spend the night on the upper floor of the shopping-area, near the car rentals. Chairs there are not so comfy and the music can be pretty anyoing. Wouldn't do that.
In Check-in 2 you also have a nice, rather quiet area near row 10 in the far corner.
Police and security staff are fri continued >>Was this Helpful?
id do it again in a second :P
by lakers6902 (August, 2008)
Reason for Stay: Early flight departure
Where: Landside
slept in 2 airports so far, and this is the better experience. Their were several others sleeping as well, and we were all hanging out just before passport control in check-in 2. The benches were pretty decent, I fell asleep quick and was not bothered. The benches have no armrest, but do have a slightly higher above the seat table type thing. For newspapers :P I just used it as a pillow, so it worked perfect. Im 6 foot and was able to lay down comfortable, without falling off. My luggage was safe, and no one bothered me. There are lockers however by the services center if needed. The cleaning crew did there own thing and did not bother us. Security walked around regularly just staring at us, saying nothing. I met a few other travelers so we had a good talk and it made the night go by fast =]Was this Helpful?
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