Arrival at Lebanon Airport

Arrival at Lebanon Airport If you arrive to Lebanon by air, you will surely arrive at Lebanese Airport. Beirut International Airport System At your arrival, experience the quick service of the Internal Security System, and see how easily you pass the airport formalities. It is in the Lebanese blood stream to be impatient, and you feel the officers waiting to print the "arrival" stamp on your passport even more impatient than you tend to be. Beirut International Airport Cabs If you have reserved a taxi agency to pick you up at the flight terminal, they will most definitely be waiting for you with your label outside. If you have booked a car, the auto rental agency staff members will be patiently waiting for you in the same manner. As an choice, if you are on your very own, you can take one of the airport minicabs (taxis with airport symbol on the side) which usually are parked next to the terminal at the arrival gate. These are regulated by the airport bodies, and they have a unified official price. If you want to be entirely on your own, and you proceed out of the airport, 10s of taxi cabs will be passing by at each step, looking for a sign to ask you if you would like a drive. If you decide to take one of these, you will most likely have to come to an agreement with the taxi operater on the acceptable cost that he will charge you for the trip. Lebanese Airport Taxi Transfer Prices At this time there are no set prices for taxi transfers that you get out of the airport terminal, and there are no taxi meters, so the price that you will be charged depends on you and on the taxi cab driver, thus you have to notify the taxi driver exactly where you are heading, and ask him the amount he will ask you for for the ride, but another option is to reveal to him where you are heading and give him the price you expect to give, and as an alternative in the middle, he can give you a rate and you can bargain. As a rough quote, if you are heading within Beirut, start your bargaining with 10$ and reach 15$ as a max, and if you are going within a range of 25km from the capital, initiate your bargaining with 20$ and get to 30$ as a maximum. Taxi Service Option A substitute to taxis is what is called "service" which are shared taxi cars. These cost 1.3$ for every passenger for the trip, but they operate within preset perimeters, thus if you are going significantly farther from your primary starting place, you might possibly have to take 2 or more taxi "service" rides. Service Taxis in most cases do not run immediately outside of the terminal, and you will have to hike a distance of 300 to 500 meters before you can find anyone, or better said, before they can find you. If you are traveling alone, and if you are moving anyplace within Beirut, this might be a viable option for your transfer because they cost much less than taxi cabs, but they usually do not deposit you exactly where you are heading, and you might need to hike some distance after they deposit you. The way to proceed with service taxis is to first make it clear for the taxi driver that you are not selecting him as a taxi, but as a service. They generally approach you when they notice you waiting on the street, and you have to tell them where you are going, they either ask you to jump in, or they go their way without further looking at you. An alternative technique to make sure that you are dealing with a service taxi is to make sure there is at the very least one more passenger in the car when they pick you up, and pay him straight when you jump in the car, using this method you will avoid annoying surprises and discussions at your destination. Lebanese Airport Public Transportation One more alternative is to take a public transport coach, but this alternative will be reviewed in a second article "Public Transport at your arrival in Lebanon".

[tags Beirut Airport, Transportation in Lebanon, Rafic Hariri Airport]


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