I was fortunate enough to be a Flight Service Manager for TWA until 1989. This was our international terminal. The long tunnel with the red carpet led from the ticketing area to the gates. Sure brings back memories thinking about all the times I walked that tunnel. This was easily the best times of my life working and flying for TWA. When Carl Icahn bought our beloved airline in 1986 it was the beginning of the end for those of us who loved this airline. Thank you for the video, I most certainly intend to visit, if my heart can stand it!

That hostess in the Valentino Uniform looks gorgeous and makes the uniform look so classy. 😍😍🥰

Random people: it's just a fancy hotel next to an airport Me: this is heaven

Sam, nice video review. Thank you. I was a Pan Am Stewardess based in JFK from 1979-1991 and I cried like a baby when Delta and the Port Authority let the Pan Am Worldport deteriorate to the point where they demolished it. We former employees always felt there was a new use for it. I am grateful the TWA was saved. How many times I too ran through those tubes to my gate to commute home to another state!! Big fan of yours, keep it up!

no one: Mr. Chui: *Proceeds to enter the swimming pool with a T-shirt*

$8 for orange juice. Does it have jet fuel in it to increase price😳😵

Sam:What’s the best plane you’ve seen Kid in life jacket: Delta Me: 😂😂😂

Guest at the hotel: ahh I'm going to sleep now. 777 engine starts roaring

too bad we can't use our TWA frequent flyer miles 😂

Those uniforms probably really expensive to make Thanks, this is the most likes I have ever got

5:38 Sam: "It's so classic!" Random Car: BEEEEEEEEEEP

2:00 'Oh my god', door literally falls off, *WHAM*

The killer view does make up for the small room size. AND THAT POOL VIEW 💯

Just checked the prices...high, but not beyond the New York range for a decent hotel. Definitely not any different from several hotels I have stayed at on airport grounds in other cities. Very interesting...too bad TWA is gone, but at least it lives on here in this hotel.

So nice to see the TWA terminal open once again after all those years it was closed. I flew in and out of that terminal many times over the years before the demise of TWA. I will without a doubt, spend a night there on my next trip in or out of JFK.

What an amazing memory! Thank you so much for sharing this! Been in "the terminal" in the 70's and early 80's. I've followed you for years, but this video spoke to my heart. Thank you Sam. You're the best!

I love this theme hotel idea! It's cool to see it revolve around the golden age of flying, and for one of the best airlines ever. I still miss TWA, and if it wasn't for Carl Ichan it may still be flying. I am glad they are finally reusing one of the most iconic terminals in aviation.

When I couldn't get out of JFK one night, in the 90's, I slept in the terminal. Not a hotel. Just in the terminal lounge. You're doing much better Sam!!

Amazing! I could stay in the pool the whole day. This is great place to for aviation fans indeed.

Awesome video & gorgeous hotel!! Soooo proud to have been a TWA Gate Agent (early 2000's) miss you💕

Thanks for this video. I've been considering staying for 2 or three nights with my mom. We are both former TWA employees. You gave us a great video tour.

Great Sam. My dad was a TWA pilot (B707, B727, L1011 and B747) for 30 years and growing up I took many flights to and from the TWA Flight Center at JFK. I love that the terminal has been preserved and repurposed as a hotel and I look forward to staying there myself sometime.

Wow; the erstwhile TWA terminal at JFK with those retro designs !! And a pool with an apron/runway view - simply fabulous !! Thanks for your coverage, Sam

I used to fly into and out of terminal 5 back in the day....when it was home to TWA. Brings back great memories. Fantastic job as always Sam. Keep up the great work.....travel safe!

I am an architect and an airplanes lover. Imagine how much I enjoy this video!! Thank you very much Sam for share it. Incredible!!

Sam I love your work and you show us so much about the aviation field. Keep it up! Let’s travel together!

I traveled through the TWA Terminal in 1984 (10 years old) from LHR to DTW and watched TV for $0.25 on one of their many TV seats...now I fly professionally through JFK for a major cargo operator and enthusiastically watch your documentary of this iconic building...keep it up Sam, love your genuine passion for aviation (like many of us).

I’ve been requesting you do this and glad you finally did! Welcome back to my neck of the woods. Nice hotel

Incredible vid, I can’t believe they did it ! I’m so fascinated about the hotel, the way they preserved their patrimony!

I remember that terminal as a kid in the 80s traveling TWA with my parents. So damn chill!

Wow what a great experience, I didn't expect a historical hotel in an airport. Good Jop TWA and thank you again SAM for sharing us your stay.

Omg the era when i grew up is now in museams. Love the vidio. Brought back the excitement of air travel when i flew to europe i my twenties. Back in the sixties and seventies. Thank you for this. Another place to put on my bucket list. Just recently reconnected with my american cousins whom i have not seen for decades.

I became a Travel Agent because of "TWA" I got trained on PARS, System One and Sabre those were the Days I certainly missed working for the Airlines Thanks for the memories.

Keep up the good work, good content :) I have subbed for about 3 years now.

I flew from this terminal on a trip to Spain in 1994. This brings back memories of that trip, my first 747 and first overseas trip. I'm glad this terminal has a new life as a hotel and continues to honour TWA history. One day I will stop there for a night, hopefully.

Love the video Sam! Feels so nostalgic. Those old telephones rekindles a lot of wonderful childhood memories.

I love how Sam calls it a "V" Log

The hotel is definitely on my bucket list 😍 I especially liked the wonderful Lockheed L-1649A Constellation Starliner ✈🥂 Amazing report Sam! 👍 Huge like! Cheers Matt

I stayed in the Howard Hughes suite a couple of weeks ago for a night and it was beyond worth it. The level of detail in this hotel is impeccable, I just wish the staff were more attentive and caring about their jobs.

When i was going to school to become a commercial pilot at Vaughn Collage right across the Parkway from LaGuardia Airport (LGA) I stayed in the doorms for three semesters and i was lucky to have an amazing view of Runway 4 from my doorm room window! Unfortinatly i figured out mid way through Chollage that i didnt want to keep persuing that career and i unfortinatly dropped out and persued a career as a Auto CAD Opperator, and Technical Draftsman. I will say that some of my best memories is laying in my crappy doorm bed listening to either Ground ATC or Music and watching those planes take off and land for hours on end.

Went mobile to book a room... My damn phone with auto-correct almost booked me a room at TWAT hotel >:(

2:26 Air Serbia Airbus A330 Nikola Tesla-JFK

I am such an av-geek that I chose VK3-TWA as my amateur radio call sign. Thanks for the video on this beautiful classic terminal now serving as an aviation spotters paradise. Cheers Sam.

I really love the architecture of this hotel in JFK Int'l Airport. When it was opened in 1962, it used to be a terminal building as TWA Flight Center. It was shut down in 2001. In the late 2010s, it was converted into a hotel as TWA Hotel. What a nice improvement of JFK Airport we have here!

Sam you keep us surprised every time. Love your positivity. You re showing luxury and also economy. Thank you for your hard work.

Next time I have business in NYC, I'm staying there.

Awwww Sam your brought the sentimental journey( playing in the background Doris Day song) Seeing flipping schedule board Arrival and departure brings back the smiles Great video Sam and outstanding to the people who recreated Twa Hotel Now we only new is Pan Am Hotel, to match the Red with Blue ;)

Great review, I was able to hop in there before my JetBlue flight the other day. Very cool setup, brings back a lot of memories as a kid flying out of there.

I have never wanted to stay in a hotel more in my life. Wow. Also you should stay at the new Hilton garden inn at Heathrow T3

Even it is made in 1962, still a beautiful piece of creation

Stunning. Many is the time in the 80's that I would hurry down the red carpet in the original building on a Friday evening to catch the last flight to Heathrow so I could be home for the weekend.

TWA I still have an original blue TWA bag from the late sixties or early seventies. What fun you had as always. :: )peace

Thanks Sam, That might be the coolest thing I've seen you do yet! So many cues were just like what I remember from the late 60's it was uncanny and almost disturbing as it was like looking back through a time-machine at some slightly alternative past. And how cool would it be if they had retro boarding and flight experience in the old Connie?

"Nationwide, worldwide. depend on TWA". Man, do I miss my hometown airline!

Sam ur videos always make me feel happy, u must have a positive impact on ppl. 💜

I love how you just couldn't stop grinning over this hotel! I'm going in October, and I'm sure I'll be the same way.

SAAAAMM!!!! You cane to my airport!!! JFK Yay!!!! I was waiting for this!! ❤❤❤❤❤👍👍👍😀😀😀😀😀 My husband works for Jetblue and I work in Terminal 4. I wish I could have meet you.

I have a genuine TWA Junior Pilot wings that were given to me in a flight from London to Chicago in August 1965!

Some of the best flights I have ever had were on TWA first class back in the 70s and 80s. I still have an amenity kit, overnight kit and socks from back then. I can't upload the pictures because youtube does not have the option. Great airline which is greatly missed.

I was there in june and i highly recommend this hotel not even if u are plane spotter but only to see how amazing it is

Hey Sam Chui u are my inspiration for aviation and u made me realise how Interesting aviation is !!😂 Thank u and keep up with the enjoyable Content 😂💙👌🏽

People desperatly look for better times and the 60’s were the pinnacle of cool design. Not only the buildings and the fashion, also music, movies, cars, you name it. Our age is not nice at all. Nice video, thank you.

I just watched a documentary about Eero Saarinen the other week so I got to watch it being built. I am glad they took the path they did in restoring it rather than tearing it down and replacing it with something totally boring. :)

Absolutely fantastic...

When you see Thomas cook: WAIT A MINUTEEE

WOW! That hotel looks amazing! My father has flown small planes and done helicopter tours in the 90s so this hotel would be fascinating for him and I.

I grew up around TWA. My dad worked for TWA at DAY and BNA from the 1950s to 1980s and retired. He aways brought me to the airport.

🌟 This hotel looks really cool : thanks for making a video about it 🌟

HEY SAM! love your videos, :)

I would love to come here! I am a fanatic with vintage airliners, especially TWA and Pan Am! Awesome video Sam!

This is avgeek heaven I wish the lockdown ended so I could go here

love the rotary phone of my childhood

Brilliant concept! They should do airline food plans, economy, business and first to help budget. 8 dollars for oj in the us, criminal!!

really like your video editing now.. because my home feed is mixed with your older video, it really show how much you have developing >.< more enjoyable to watch and have more structure + that awesome preview at the beginning..

Woahhhh.. looks amazing! I love your video, sam

Can you upload a plane spotting video from your room with that view?

Damnnnnnnn😍😍😍😍

Hey Sam, so very glad you appreciate the retro TWA. I connected through here in 1987 on a travel agent fam-trip to Nassau for a PARS welcoming reception. It was the bomb! Everything comp at the Paradise Hotel (maybe that's why they went under LOL). TWA was an outstanding carrier, too bad even great people and great customer service can't save an outstanding airline from the guys with the golden parachutes. Flew them 1st class ORD-LHR in '73 and thought I had died and gone to plane spotter heaven! (First trip to Europe) All I have is a cordial glass as a memento. FYI-I flew on the Connies and Super-G's on Eastern for years as a kid, in First. What, can't tolerate a little "hot n' sticky" to have a runway view? LOL Yes, I'll have to stop over there on my next trip to BOS. You're killing me here, man! Can't wait to get there! Many many thanks for this nostalgic trip down memory lane! Love your posts!

I never knew this place existed until a couple months ago and got really excited. I’m from NY originally and fly back and forth for work, and i stay with my family. I can’t wait to just stay there just to experience it now. I’ll definitely spend the money for a night for the experience!

I love the smell of Avgas with my martini by the pool in the morning😎

6:58 That’s me, the kid to the left. I even filmed Sam for some parts

Brings back the memories of the late TWA airlines …. great video indeed Sam ...

Wonderful video! My friend and I, who live in Manhattan, took a trip out to check out the TWA Hotel one afternoon/evening and we had a great time. l love all the nostalgic details, and the Connie Bar was awesome--I highly recommend the hummos appetizer! The restaurant maitre'd seemed inexperienced, but the rest of the staff was great. Glad you had a great experience as well.

Please Sir do a review of Air Force One

Do the rotary dial phones come with instructions for anyone born after 1980?

I'm surprised Howard didn't think of adding a hotel and living in it. :) Also, I think the silverware is Vignelli. Nice touch!

Sam your videos as always are hard to stop watching until it's finished. I will have to try this.

I would be so exited if I would go there because it's soooo BEAUTIFUL! 😍❤️

looks at board: Flight: 800 Airline: TWA Destination: Paris person: seems familiar....

YAY! I WAS WAITING FOT YOUR REVIEW!! THANKS SO MUCH!

Hi Sam, Nice video. Thanks for making this one. Yes, its a dream come true for all those who madly love airplanes. The 1960's and 70's retro appeal was just amusing. They did a good job with the interior. You're so lucky to be enjoying this. The memorablia was nice and admirable too. I wonder if those TWA memorablia and souvenirs are available online, I want to buy them all. I would love to have a personal collection.And that music ? I loved it. The Howard Hughes suite was very nice to look at. Someday I would love to have my work table facing the runway but its not the fact here, I wish I could have the means to change that. I feel, this video was made just for me. Thank you so much. I'm so pleased.

I can remember times when flying was an elegant way of travel. Gosh, I feel really old.

hello Sam I am from Nepal please you make Video Air New Zealand

Fabulous flight down memory lane when flying was an event! Thanks 😍

In Spain, when TWA the airline still existed, its name was pronounced "too-ah", instead of pronouncing each letter individually as we do in English. When I first head that pronunciation I was surprised.

Early Nice Videos Sam The Hotel looks nice It’s nice for plane spotting Also I got in A Business class lounge using a credit card and I was plane spotting

Do the shortest international flight in the world between Anguilla and St. Maarten. Anguilla is beautiful

Ok. I need to go here! Thanks for the review Sam!

That location! and I love how retro it feels!

The airline was no more, but at least there’s still a hotel.