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Sleepless night: English backpackers Martin Tierney, front, and Dave Pearson, both 25, settle down for the night at Christchurch Airport. Photo: Samantha Early Samantha Early
terminal - passengers were asked to keep their travel documents CHRISTCHURCH International Airport has become a night ights and it was hard to monitor things all the time. Mr Boult said airport staff had found people getting food and on them and not to hang laundry on the seats. makeshift shelter for hundreds of backpackers as the city faces Mr Boult said the airport didn’t want to push people out liquor delivered and trying to cook meals on portable stoves. a shortage of accommodation post-earthquake. “I went through there one night and there was a lady with one because there was nowhere else for them to go. Instead they Airport chief executive Jim Boult said since spring last year wanted to build a backpackers’ along with a between 100 and 200 passengers were sleeping four-star hotel. in the terminal each night, compared with about I went through one night and there was a lady with one “If there is reasonable priced 25 before the February quake. Mr Boult said the airport was attractive of those little pop-up framed tents, her sleeping bag rolled out, accommodation nearby that does give us a reasonable excuse to say move on.â€? because it had warm showers, toilets and pyjamas on, tucking her toothbrush into her loo bag.â€? However, Mr Boult said the airport had to security. - Jim Boult, airport CEO negotiate with the Sudima Hotel which had He said the ‘guests’ were a mixture of people an exclusive right to provide accommodation who couldn’t ďŹ nd accommodation and those of those little pop-up framed tents, her sleeping bag rolled out, on the airport campus until 2031. taking advantage of the fact they could stay without paying. Room rates advertised on the hotel’s website started at $135 a He was concerned having such a large number of people pyjamas on, tucking her toothbrush into her loo bag.â€? Several large signs with a list of 11 rules are displayed in the night, well beyond a backpacker’s budget. sleeping there wasn’t a good look for people arriving on late Continued Page 2
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