I had spent the night at the Tritone Hotel which was very good value for money, but it wasn’t ideally placed for an evening in Trieste. It was, however, better placed in theory for getting to the airport. I had initially planned to walk the forty minutes to the main bus station, to ensure that I was able to get on the airport bus without any issues. I then realised that one of the few airport bus stops was literally five metres from the hotel, so I thought that I’d risk that.
Here we are, after about six seconds of walking, I was at the bus stop. At this point, there was only three hours left before my flight, which to me is crazily risky. There were the risks that the bus didn’t turn up, it was full or it would go flying by me. I was slightly concerned as the back-up plan (I always have a back-up plan) would be a taxi and that wouldn’t be cheap. But, being positive, I bought my ticket on the transport authority’s app, so I was ready to go.
And there’s no tale of woe here, the bus turned up only one minute late. There were four people on it excluding myself and the driver. I was quite relieved.
Forty minutes later, I was safely at Trieste Airport and it has been a long time since I’ve been here and I’ve entirely forgotten everything about it. Airports do tend to blur into one another after a while….
There’s a lounge at Trieste Airport that I could use with Priority Pass, although you have to get a code when landside to be able to get in. This was easy to do, there’s a desk near the check-in desks, so I went through a very quiet security area and then typed my code in to gain entry. It was packed.
I opted for one of those desks at the rear which had power outlets. It’s a basic lounge, but it’s clean, comfortable and there are toilets inside. It felt quite exclusive to be honest (mainly as there was no-one else in there), although there’s a limited selection of food and drink.
There’s quite a large coffee display to look at for anyone who might be bored. Other than that, there a couple of different forms of snacks and cans of fizzy drink.
This is pretty much the entire selection that’s available, the two forms of snacks, water, fizzy drink and a coffee. That’s certainly better than nothing and I appreciated the comfort of the lounge, but I’m not sure that many people would pay for entry.
With that, I was off to Albania…..