DIA has a Santa Layover Lounge for the Holidays

If you hear holly, jolly noises echoing from Concourse B at Denver International Airport this season, that’s just Santa and a few dozen of his closest friends.
DIA’s Santa Layover Lounge is popping up for the 2024 holiday travel season with themed drinks, food and other festive offerings. (Jerrod Kazumi Popham, provided by DIA)
“You see a lot ofChristmas pop-up bars in downtown areas, and when we were talking last year about promotions I thought, ‘Why don’t we try that at the airport?’” said Stacey Stegman, senior vice president of communications and marketing at DIA. “It makes so much sense because it’s a place that people spend a lot of time at during the holidays.”
Santa’s Layover Lounge, as the bar is called, is taking over the B Concourse’s Lounge 5280 Wine Bar starting Nov. 19 and runs through Jan. 6, 2025, with seasonal offerings meant to lessen the anxiety of holiday travel. The kid-friendly setup will have hand-crafted festive cocktails, holiday-inspired food, a hot chocolate bar and “surprise appearances from familiar holiday characters,” including Santa, Stegman said.
The Lounge will donate a dollar from every purchase, up to $5,000, to the Make a Wish Foundation. That means you can drink your Polar Expresso Martini, Rumpumpum Punch, or Muletide Carol with do-gooder confidence

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