Wait, When Did Airport Hotels Turn Cool?

Travelers are finding places they’d actually want to stay the day before they fly instead of the usual dreary spots good only for their convenience

Scott McCartney

May 23, 2018 9:00 a.m. ET

New York

The glass windows in each guest room have seven layers of soundproofing material and are more than 4 inches thick. Quiet matters at an airport hotel.

The TWA Hotel, built around Eero Saarinen’s iconic terminal at New York’s Kennedy Airport, will open next spring with 1960s flair, modern road-warrior requirements and an expected...