Landing at Beirut Airport

Landing at Beirut Airport When you arrive to Lebanon by air, you will certainly arrive at Lebanese Airport. Lebanese Airport Service At your landing, enjoy the speedy service of the Internal Security System, and see how fast you complete the airport formalities. It is in the Lebanese blood to be impatient, and you feel the authorities waiting to print the "arrival" stamp on your passport even more impatient than you tend to be. Lebanese Airport Taxis If you have reserved a taxi office to pick you up at the flight terminal, they will most certainly be looking for you with your name outside. If you have rented a motor vehicle, the car rental bureau staff members will be waiting for you in the same manner. As an solution, if you are on your own, you can consider one of the airport taxis (taxis with airport emblem on the side) which are parked next to the terminal at the arrival gate. These are regulated by the airport bodies, and they have a single standard charge. 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 every step, waiting for a sign to ask you if you would like a ride. If you decide to take one of these, you will most likely have to agree with the taxi operater on the acceptable fare that he will charge you for the drive. Lebanese Airport Taxi Transfer Prices At this time there are no set charges for taxi transfers that you get out of the airport, and there are no taxi cab meters, so the fee that you will be charged is dependent on you and on the taxi driver, consequently you have to notify the taxi driver where you are heading, and ask him how much he will charge you for the drive, but another alternative is to explain to him where you are going and give him the price you expect to give, and as an option in the middle, he can offer you a price and you can bargain. As a rough quote, if you are heading within Beirut, start your bargaining with 10$ and get to 15$ as a maximum, and if you are going within a range of 25km from the capital, initiate your bargaining with 20$ and reach 30$ as a maximum. Taxi Service Solution Another solution to taxi cabs is what is known as "service" which are shared taxi cars. These charge 1.3$ for each traveler for the drive, but they operate around fixed perimeters, therefore if you are going significantly farther from your initial starting position, you may have to take 2 or more taxi "service" trips. Service Taxis generally do not operate straight outside of the airport, and you may have to walk around the block a distance of 300 to 500 meters before you can look for anyone, or better said, before they can find you. If you are travelling on your own, and if you are heading anyplace within Beirut, this might be a viable alternative for your move considering the fact that they cost a lot less than cabs, but they do not deposit you exactly where you are going, 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 hiring him as a taxi, but as a service. They ordinarily approach you whenever they see you waiting on the street, and you need to indicate to them the place you are heading, they either request you to jump in, or they go their way without further looking at you. A second manner to make certain that you are dealing with a service taxi is to make sure there is at least a second traveler in the automobile when they pick you up, and pay him immediately when you jump in the car, using this method you will keep away from unpleasant surprises and discussions at your destination. Rafic Hariri Airport Public Transport One more choice is to consider a public transportation coach bus, but this option will be discussed in another report "Public Transportation at your landing in Lebanon".

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