Just taking off in Poland

In Poland, as hard as you might look, in the end it's only beyond the airport compound that you'll find a hotel. That is until June, when a four star Courtyard by Marriott Hotel will open right opposite the main terminal building at Warsaw's Okęcie airport: it will have 225 rooms. Some time later, a 114 room hotel is slated for Poznań's Ławica airport "It's said that airport hotels are very strange beasts," remarks Sam Hurst of the London-based TRI Hospitality Consulting firm."This is because they are subject to huge fluctuations in demand. If an airline cancels a flight for example, the hotel gets an immediate influx of guests, which they then have to deal with. They are good places to learn yield management because you just don't know what's going to happen next." To the extent airport hotels do already exist in Poland, it is in the immediate vicinity of the compound, and though they don't exactly face the arrivals hall, they still very much associ