Originally Posted by danger

The flight from TLL arrived at a remote bay about 45 minutes late, reducing the layover time to a little over seven hours. I enquired at the lounge about a day room and was told I was entitled to a hotel, nothing else. I told the agent the inbound was delayed and she told me it didn't matter; eligibility remains the same even if the layover time is reduced. So, essentially, if you originally had a seven plus hour layover and through a delay that's reduced to between four and seven hours, you're still expected to avail yourself of the hotel. No day room for you.

The airport hotel wanted an extortionate EUR139 for three to six hours. My guess they're killing the pig.

I'm not prepared to pay USD60-odd for a visa for a few hours and therefore be shown on Immigration systems as having entered Turkey. Been there, done that.

I also agree with the member above who noted the appalling lack of signage at the airport.

Right now I'm sitting downstairs in the lounge where a girl of about eight years of age has started playing some pretty decent tunes on the piano.