If you travel long distances with any regularity chances are you have had a long stop-over in one airport or another. If you are not at one of the airports with cheap-ish pay per hour hotels in the transit lounges then you have to try and find somewhere – that does not have hard seats with arm rests sleep.

This happened to me at Brisbane airport and I had a pretty uncomfortable nights sleep there on a small two seater couch in the international terminal upstairs. I was thinking it would be nice to be able to find out in advance if someone else had experienced this before and how could I find out. Well now that is possible at www.sleepinginairports.net. This site is great – people rate the airports in terms of how much of a nice place you can find to sleep (for free) – and you can find out if it gets happy faces (approval ratings) or skull and cross bones (bad ratings).

One of my friends is currently in New Delhi airport for 23 hours and he used this site to see where he could nap and unfortunately for him there was nothing but bad ratings for the airport….unlucky Dan!!

There is also a list of favourite airports (singapore being number 1- read my review about why I agree), and airports people would pay more to avoid… have a look it is definately a good site to take in before travelling!