[QUOTE=carrotjuice;35688243]Each person has their own opinions. I'd say if you've never done a long layover at TPR, then by all means don't be dissuaded by others and do so at least once and come to your own judgement on whether it's worthwhile and a pleasant enough experience for you. You won't know until you try. (speaking from the perspective of someone who intentionally stretched my overnight DOH layover to 18 hours, so I could go the DOH art trail and lounge hop between Al Safwa and the two Al Mourjans... and loved it!)

Thanks for the input! I'm very fickle and keep changing my mind because later on when I plan around it, I realize if I wanted to go in earlier in the morning I have to wake up very early and rush too, so why not just check in the night before, have a nice dinner, shower there then rest until 8+am then board directly. I can skip breakfast since I'm having dinner there already. But that is assuming that I would be able to sleep in the rest beds for the whole night. I don't think there would be much people, when nobody requests the rest place I can extend right? So... thinking about it still...