Auckland Airport (AKL)

Auckland international airport is the best airport in the world. Not just because its the gateway to the best country in the world 'New Zealand' but because you are greeted with the friendly faces the whole way through the airport. As you walk through you can hear birds singing (never heard that anyway else) which is so lovely after being stuck in a tube for over 24 hrs. The boarder control are friendly... yes friendly they even crack the occasional joke (not to be confused with the normal grumpy persona they are all too often like). The airport allows you to pass through the duty free area before passing through which is great and saves you having to carry it all ...  Read the complete review

Do not be alarmed if, following a 20 plus hour gruelling plane flight from the northern hemisphere, you arrive in Auckland Airport to find that your first impression of New Zealand is a not exactly favourable one. Any slight feelings of jadedness or disillusionment you experience on arriving in New Zealand at Auckland Airport will probably be a side-effect of the ridiculous journey times required to get to this - what you'll undoubtedly later decide is a - fantastic destination. The view of sea-water, and grey misty hills that you can see through the plate-glass windows as you wait in immigration on entering the country might look suspisciously like exactly ...  Read the complete review