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The best spotting location by far is the "Mirador". In 2015 this location has been renovated and now has places to sit and parking places to park your car. This place is located behind the parking lot of the airport passenger terminal. The Mirador is located right next to the F.D. Roosevelt Road that passes the airport. When you leave the airport you have to go to the left to go up with the road. When doing so you will see the public terrace with its roof to the left. Here you will see that the road originally went to the left. When seeing the Mirador, keep driving and turn to the airport hotel called Hotel Holland when you see it. This hotel is on your left hand side too. Exit this hotel again to go in the direction of the Mirador again. Once you see it on your right, you will see the road to enter the parking area at the Mirador. When you come from the other direction of the road (meaning from the airport hotel), the Mirador is to your right of course. In this case you have to pass the main airport entrance which is clearly visible by the orange wall with the airport name on it in big letters. When you have passed this entrance the road will go up again and just before the road goes downwards again you will see the Mirador on your right with the parking places. Don't drive to fast here, otherwise you will miss the Mirador and you will have to drive all the way down the hill to turn again. The best way to reach the Mirador is by coming from the direction of the airport hotel. The airport police will not stop you at the Mirador as many local people watch aircraft arriving and departing from this location. It's a public area.

The small disadvantage of this location is heat haze for arriving aircraft that are on the runway. As you have much less heat haze problems when the aircraft taxi by after arrival, this heat haze disadvantage can be limited here.

A photo of the new Mirador public terrace can be seen in below link:

==Other Spotting Locations==