Don’t lug your winter coat on a seaside trip — verify it at this airport

Winters in Milwaukee are reliably chilly, with temperatures hovering round freezing from January by way of March.

That is why many locals wish to get out of city within the winter.

It is also why Milwaukee Mitchell Worldwide Airport (MKE) is enthusiastically selling its flights to warm-weather locations equivalent to Miami; Austin; Fort Lauderdale; Orlando; Cancun; Puerto Vallarta, Mexico; Montego Bay, Jamaica; and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

It is also why MKE has introduced again a preferred, handy, low-cost and, actually, no-brainer amenity for vacationers: airport coat verify.

As of Friday, passengers heading to warm-weather locations from MKE can cease on the presecurity Summerfest Market store in the primary terminal (by the data desk) to verify their winter coats, hats, scarves and gloves earlier than flying off to hotter climes. The service ought to proceed by way of at the very least April 1.

As a part of this system, every coat is positioned in a dry-cleaning bag after which organized by the date of the passenger’s return flight.

MKE coat verify service is obtainable seven days every week, and coat pickups can be found till the ultimate flight of every day. “Even when there is a [flight] delay,” MKE guarantees.

Not solely is MKE’s coat verify service handy, nevertheless it’s additionally moderately priced. The price for coat storage at MKE is $2 per day, with a most cost of $10 per journey.

It means there will probably be fewer cumbersome coats filling up coveted overhead bins on the airplane, and fewer folks will put on (or sit on) their coats on their airplane. It additionally means there is not any have to lug winter coats to seaside accommodations, timeshares or Airbnbs — and no likelihood of leaving these coats behind in lodge closets.

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MKE has been providing this handy service since 2020, checking about 500 coats every winter. To this point, just one coat has gone unclaimed. That state of affairs was as a result of “the aged buyer who left it didn’t return to Wisconsin, however determined to remain in Florida along with his son,” Christie Inexperienced, MKE’s advertising coordinator, stated.

A number of worldwide airports supply a winter coat verify as a part of their baggage storage providers. For instance, Germany’s Frankfurt Airport (FRA) affords winter coat storage for two euros (about $2) per day as a part of its bag storage providers; it has one location that is open 24 hours.

Within the U.S., MKE is the one airport to supply a coat verify service, however there might quickly be extra. Not less than 5 airports have contacted the supervisor of MKE’s Summerfest Market to inquire about this system, Inexperienced stated.

Different useful facilities at MKE

Along with its coat verify service, MKE has a variety of different welcome, useful and strange facilities.

On its web site, the airport affords a downloadable booklet for a self-guided airport tour (PDF hyperlink) that features enjoyable info about its historical past and amenities.

The presecurity space of the MKE terminal is residence to Renaissance Books, a big and unusual-for-an-airport store providing new, used and uncommon books. The presecurity space can also be residence to an aviation museum, the Mitchell Gallery of Flight. The museum is open at any time when the airport is open, and admission is free.

The family-friendly airport affords kids’s play areas, breastfeeding and lactation suites, and household restrooms with child-size bathrooms and sinks.

As we head into the busy vacation journey season, it is good to know that there is a designated “Recombobulation Space” with tables and chairs simply previous the safety checkpoint. Passengers can cease right here to place their footwear again on and their belongings again collectively with out feeling rushed.

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