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Aerin LauderFounder of beauty and lifestylebrand Aerin

“Candy is one of my guiltypleasures, Twizzlers being ontop of the list. One time a delayedflight had me sitting in theairport for hours so I decided toget magazines and some licoriceto perk up my spirits. Now, Ialways continue the traditioneven if the plane isn’t delayed.On flights, I love catching up onsome of my favorite TV showssuch as ‘Scandal’ and ‘Mad Men.’When I arrive at the hotel thereis nothing like ordering french

fries for room service and snacking from the mini bar. The best room-service fries I’ve ever hadwere from Claridge’s in London. They were just perfect.”

Andrew Sean GreerPulitzer Prize–winning author of ‘Less’

“My friend Daniel once told me, while I was having a nervous breakdown after a canceled flight:‘I have never regretted a cocktail I’ve had in an airport bar.’ While one can surely overdo it, it’s a

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Room-Service Carbs, Airport Cocktails andOther Guilty Travel PleasuresWe asked three jet-setting notables—Aerin Lauder, Paula Zahn and novelist Andrew Sean Greer—toconfess their vacation vices

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By Jennifer Fernandez

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fine way to calm down away fromthe gate. My personal guiltypleasure is bringing somethingluxurious to eat on the planeinstead of the airplane food.Usually it’s fancy cheese andmeat, but once I brought caviar(the cheap kind). I’ll never forgetthe relief of not having to eat thehalf-frozen ravioli. And the lookon my neighbor’s face. I alsothink a trashy magazine is a fineway to pass the endless time asyou wait for the plane to take off.It goes without saying I watch

children’s movies for the entire flight.”

Paula ZahnExecutive producer and host ofInvestigation Discovery’s ‘On theCase with Paula Zahn’

“I was born into the wronggeneration—I was supposed tobe a millennial. Much to thechagrin of my kids (who aremillennials themselves), I takephotos of everything. I see flightsas an opportunity to sortthrough the 72,000-plus photoson my iPhone. In the airport andon the plane I delete the blurryones, spend an unbelievableamount of time straightening all

the crooked ones, and edit the winners. My daughter recently introduced me to the searchfunction, and we discovered that I have 6,231 photos of my dogs Nigel and Stella, 38,731 of mychildren—and over 1,000 photos of rainbows.”

—Edited from interviews by Jennifer Fernandez

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