Leave the airport food and crowds behind and hit the waves
This article was first published in Explore Travel magazine (see p13) on 17 January 2026
I’m going to be stuck in Edinburgh airport, waiting hours for my connecting flight. I’ll have to camp out in a soulless burger joint or twiddle my thumbs at an empty departure gate. “Or, you could go for a surf,” my Scottish friend told me. Yes, a surf. Within 40 minutes of clearing immigration I was catching some waves, then warming up in a poolside sauna and re-fuelling with delicious food and a local whisky cocktail.
This is Lost Shore Surf Resort and it’s one of the best airport stopover idea for years.
It’s Europe’s largest wave pool. There are two pools actually, each with its own wide wave, providing brilliant options for surfers of all abilities. The more experienced can catch them as they break out the back while newbies can play safe and get their ‘surf legs’ in the shallows.
Lost Shore is the brainchild of local surfing fanatic Andy Hadden and has welcomed thousands of people since it opened in 2024, including tonnes of passengers desperate to do something – anything – rather than twiddle their thumbs at Edinburgh airport.
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