Staying a night at Ercan international airport
I will be arriving at Ercan international airport at night and need to wait till morning for another friend to arrive. Is there any facility there I can book for a night?
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The official page of the airport does not mention any hotel/sleeping facility. Moreover, the Sleepinginairports page for Ercan contains two reviews, one, dating 2003, mentioning uncomfortable metal, albeit armrest-free, seats on which it is indeed possible to sleep without lying down due to a small number of them:
even though all seats were metal ones, they had no armrest and sleep was fairly attainable. A slight lack of seats, specially if trying to get more than one to lie down
The second review, dating 2006, however points out that since the page name is wrong (Nicosia Airport points to an abandoned airfield), the afore-mentioned review could refer to either Larnaca, Paphos, or Ercan:
Nicosia Airport lies in the buffer zone between the Turkish and Greek Cypriot areas of Cyprus. It is not operational and has not been in use since 1974. Any reviw referring to an operating airport in Cyprus probably refers to Larnaca, but might also be about Paphos or Ercan. Beware!
Bottom line is I could not find any information regarding sleeping at Ercan Airport specifically. So either you try it out, and come back to tell us the story, or you might want to consider a bus into Nicosia and a hotel there. To this purpose, the Ercan airport website has links to hotels in Nicosia.
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Answer 2
According to Booking.com, the closest hotel to Ercan airport is 8.5 km away, but that's in Nicosia across the border, which is probably quite inconvenient.
The closest hotels in Northern Cyprus are located in Kyrenia, which is 40 km by car. A one-way transfer by taxi would cost $40 and it doesn't appear that there is any public transportation available.
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