Sometimes, the only way to feel truly secure is if you are close to the airport. It seems odd that with so many people complaining about airports being situated close to where they live (the noise obviously being a factor; it isn’t a particularly nice experience to be woken up by the whoosh of an aeroplane flying in low over your house to land) that we should choose to have hotels next to an airport but, when you think about it, there is a very shrewd reason for it. Imagine that you have a flight in the early hours of the morning. You have a choice; you can either not sleep the night before and drive down (obviously, in an age where many deaths on the roads have been attributed to tiredness, this isn’t the best of ideas) or travel down in plenty of time and stay overnight. Evidently, the better option is the latter, as it means that you can wake up refreshed and catch your flight feeling much less stressed.

There is, however, the added issue about where to stay. Fortunately, an excellent chain of hotels has sprung up at many of Britain’s airports and are specifically designed for stays of a day or two. Holiday Inn is by far the best choice for a short stop over. The close proximity to the airport means that you won’t have to worry about missing your flight and the rooms are incredibly cheap. With a restaurant close by for an early breakfast, what more could you want?