Spending The Night In Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport
December 4, 2007 by Anil P.
Filed under Travel Journal
Due to heavy winds on the east coast of the United States, I’ve missed a connecting flight to North Dakota. The large Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport is filled with restaurants and multiple bathrooms, but isn’t the best airport to spend the night in.
In general, the power outlets are positioned in the hallways away from the gates making it difficult to find a spot to charge laptops and cell phones while catching some shut-eye. You’ll be able to find a good spot in between Concourse C and D, where the massage chairs are. There are tables to place your stuff and you can use the outlets for the massage chairs (or get a massage). There is no free wireless Internet, it will cost you around $8 to connect for 24 hours. A NetStumbler search will help you to locate some free maintenance networks.
The best thing to do in this situation is find a nice corner to sleep nearby the gate of my next flight. I’ll keep my cell phone alarm set to 3 hours before my flight to give me snooze and breakfast time. I’ve slept in many airports, and the lesson is the same for survival anywhere: find some food, shelter, and Starbucks.
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And I’d like to add there are mice everywhere.
Sorry to hear that you are stuck there. Good luck!
mice! eeww
I’d rather be accosted by mice than Utah Senator Larry Craig.
Sorry. Come ‘on you know you can’t have an MSP post without a Larry Craig reference
Did you get in late? If not you could have taken the light rail to Mall of America. Of course exploring is never as fun when bogged down with luggage.
The unfortunate thing is that I got stuck here very late at night, and my flight out was very early in the morning.
It’s one of those situations where I’ve got a bunch of ‘useless’ time where I can’t do much of any productive sightseeing.