Qype: Amman International Airport in Amman

Amman

To be honest, I normally write reviews with the intent of entertaining or inspiring rather than providing actual useful information.
If you have a stop over of any length flying Air Jordan through this aiport though, a little information will be really useful.
The airport itself is neither good nor bad – just another mid size international venue with epensive food but the ability to order it in English.
What is useful to know is that if you have a stop over – then Air Jordan have a FREE hotel to stay in which provides FREE meals and FREE links to the airport.
However NO ONE tells you about it in English. I’m not sure how long your stop has to be but if you call the airline I guess they will tell you. I had a scheduled 6 hr stop on the way back from Thailand to London and I was eligable.
What you need to do is get a transit pass when you exit customs. Then you walk directly out the front of the airport.
The shuttle bus arrives to your right hand side facing away from the entrance. This seems to come when it wants and you will be approached by quite a few taxi drivers wanting to tax you there. The key word is TRANSIT. Just say that to everyone.
The hotel is only about 10 minutes by bus. Once there they give you a hotel room, mine was quite nice, with TV, aircon and private bathroom.
There is also a buffet room which has a huge spread of food, coffe and other drinks. No one will point this out to you at the hotel – so just go in there and start eating with the rest of them!
Be careful – they may or may not give you a wakeup call so get yourself ready to get the bus back. I received a call but my friend didn’t.
I have not doubt that they deliberatly leave westerners here so they will have to pay a huge fee to the taxi drivers to return them for their flights.
An inititaive like this should really get five stars. I don’t know anywhere else in the world where they do it. But it is handled so badly, and so rudely, that I can’t give it more than two.

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