Connecting Flights/Leaving Airport

jonny68

Does anyone know what's the story about being able to leave an airport departures lounge after arriving from a destination when you have 7/8 hours until a connecting flight?I'm almost sure i could've left Milan Malpensa last December while i waited for a connecting flight to Dubai but i just wasn't in the mood for it so waited the 6+ hours in the departures lounge bored (great shops but fcuk all decent bars in Malpensa ) anyway im wondering do different countrys have different rules regarding this or can you just leave and come back?

Reason im asking is that i hopefully plan on booking some flights for December/January and it will involve a 7+ hour wait and i really do not wanna have to wait tnhat long in some departure lounge.

Sarsfield

Shouldn't be a problem. I've often done it at Heathrow. In fact my standard route from Terminal 1 to Terminal 4 was to go through arrivals and hop on the Heathrow Express. If you've been checked through and have a boarding card you just need to go through security again.

jonny68

Sarsfield wrote:

Shouldn't be a problem. I've often done it at Heathrow. In fact my standard route from Terminal 1 to Terminal 4 was to go through arrivals and hop on the Heathrow Express. If you've been checked through and have a boarding card you just need to go through security again.

cheers for that maybe i should check with Dubai International Airport first as that's where ill probably be waiting for a connecting flight and since ive got a mate there who's bar is less than 10 mins from the airport id go ballistic if i couldn't leave the departures.;)

Our man in Havana

There you might have a problem. See http://guide.theemiratesnetwork.com/living/visa.php
Says you will have to pay $28 for an UAE entry visa.

Benedict XVI

jonny68 wrote:

cheers for that maybe i should check with Dubai International Airport first as that's where ill probably be waiting for a connecting flight and since ive got a mate there who's bar is less than 10 mins from the airport id go ballistic if i couldn't leave the departures.;)

You'll need a visa to leave the airport and get into the UAE
Details below
http://www.dubaiairport.com/DIA/English/TopMenu/Visa+Requirements/

I think you should definitely get the 1 to 96hrs visa and pay the $28
Check with the embasy as its aparently available at the airport.

The airport is only 3.5 miles from the city centre so a few hours in the city and getting there by taxi is very do able and beats waiting all that time in the airport.

Beware though it will be very very hot obviously.

Miss Fluff

I've done it in Schipol and London etc but the Middle East may present some problems.

My flight from Dubai to London was delayed by a day when I was there three weeks ago. Immigration took my passport rather than go through the bureaucracy of reissuing another visa. NOT a good scene. Trying to get my passport back the next day from the cops (immigration left the passport in the cop shop) after nearly being assaulted by a gang of men in a Pakistani-run brothel the night before (thanks for the accommodation Aer Lingus!!!!!) was a rather fraught experience to say the least!!! :eek: :eek: :eek:

Darren

I've been to the UAE loads of times and have never had to pay for a visa.

Our man in Havana

You must have a UK passport.

Darren

Nope, Irish passport but flights were from UK.

jonny68

Bond-007 wrote:

There you might have a problem. See http://guide.theemiratesnetwork.com/living/visa.php

I've been to Dubai twice and haven't had to pay any money at all,id say ill be ok;)