Bumping this thread to ask if you’ve had any more recent experience with this BA to LY separate-ticket transfer at LCA? Considering booking a backup LCA-TLV flight for someone who’s got a BA booking to TLV which (given geopolitics) might get cancelled.

Are there pleasant places to wait at LCA (like a pay-for-entry lounge) if there’s a lot of time between the flights?

Alternatively would it be more relaxing/pleasant to find an airport-adjacent hotel to stay in overnight and do the LCA-TLV hop the next day? That’s less appealing because there are fewer flights if something goes wrong but it does make for an earlier bedtime on the day of the long segment and also perhaps more wiggle room.

However, if there isn’t a hotel connected to the airport terminal at LCA (or at least very close) like LHR T5 Sofitel, that becomes much less attractive.