Yet another new look at airport

Is it just us, or does the Cyril E. King Airport seem to be always changing things around. Now that the latest facelift is done, you’ll notice a more open TSA screening line. And the Hibiscus Café & Bar has a whole new look and a better menu with more extensive salads and sandwiches, although there is still at least one mystery dish available. If you have to ask them what it is, you probably shouldn’t be ordering it.

Why do we write so much about this airport? Because we spend so much damn time going through it!

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6 Responses to “Yet another new look at airport”

1. Bigcheeze
   January 5th, 2008 07:23
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   Quick tip when flying out…Use a curbside porter. They can expidite check in and customs.

   Answer for Quenton:

   We’re from Michigan so we come down in March or 1st of April for Easter break because we have school age kids and we’re boaters so from May till Oct we’re on our boat that we pay 12 months a year to use 25 days. Even on an Easter Sunday in St John we only counted 12 people on Honeymoon Beach and we were 6 of the 12. Compare that to thousands of people on Clearwater Beach the same day.

   Dave 81 days we soon come

2. captainjay
   January 5th, 2008 08:13
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   “Why do we write so much about this airport? Because we spend so much damn time going through it!”

   Isn’t this just a horrible problem to have? I am sure alot of people would love to switch places

   Hope you both had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
   Jay

3. brenda
   January 6th, 2008 07:47
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   It would be really nice if the food is better to grab something for the plane. We thought it was pretty terrible before. Last time we got a hot dog from that little area they had set up. It was actually pretty good.

4. RickG
   January 6th, 2008 11:39
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   Mmmm, makes me hungry for some Bull’s Foot Soup!

   Cheers, RickG

5. Kelly
   January 6th, 2008 22:11
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   Having just arrived home, I have to say… the way you have to shlep everything through that airport and then have so little to choose from(to eat and drink) in the waiting area is perplexing. The bar was so packed and the single bartender so overworked, that he was making rules about “adding on” drink orders to seated customers. It was prime-time (3pm) and they are just missing a huge opportunity IMO. The cafe was packed. But what really struck me, was the way that the (I’m assuming TSA) staff handled my family as we were checking through customs and baggage. I think my husband hit the nail on the head when he said that some people just abuse their power in some of those positions. I stepped across a line drawn on the floor (we were a family of four) and I was very loudly admonished when I crossed a printed line that I didn’t see on the floor. Then she asked my 12-yearold daughter her name, who wasn’t sure she was being spoken to because she didn’t understand the question, so my husband answered and he was spoken to very rudely. Then I handed her all our passports when she asked for ID and she scolded me because it wasn’t mine alone. I’m just saying that after 9 peaceful, beautiful days where we encountered gracious, even generous hospitality, it left me with a salty aftertaste.

6. stj_gal
   January 9th, 2008 11:35
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   After just coming through there yesterday, I thought the menu was just as depressing as usual. Grey hot dogs, 1975 school lunchroom hamburgers, mystery meat sandwiches, disorganized and slow service. It’s like the old saying, you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.

   (I wish they’d serve that breakfast menu all day - I’d give anything to have a pate or johnny cake rather than the rest of that crap…)