Help with JFK layover plan/TWA Hotel

[TMLAalum]

Thanks to a previous query that was answered on this forum, we plan on spending some of our 5+ hour layover enjoying the Sunken Lounge at the hotel.

Their website is unclear re :our situation. We arrive from CLE at Terminal 8 at noon. AA #44 to CDG departs from there at 5:35pm. The hotel website's FAQ spoke to international travelers having to go thru customs, but domestic transferees only thru security again. Domestic-domestic-international pax were not addressed.

 

I am thinking for us, we leave Terminal 8, take the Airtrain to Terminal 5, walk to the hotel for lunch, then take Airtrain back to Terminal 8 where we do need to go thru security as we did out of CLE. Correct?

[Zach1213]

32 minutes ago, TMLAalum said:

Thanks to a previous query that was answered on this forum, we plan on spending some of our 5+ hour layover enjoying the Sunken Lounge at the hotel.

Their website is unclear re :our situation. We arrive from CLE at Terminal 8 at noon. AA #44 to CDG departs from there at 5:35pm. The hotel website's FAQ spoke to international travelers having to go thru customs, but domestic transferees only thru security again. Domestic-domestic-international pax were not addressed.

 

I am thinking for us, we leave Terminal 8, take the Airtrain to Terminal 5, walk to the hotel for lunch, then take Airtrain back to Terminal 8 where we do need to go thru security as we did out of CLE. Correct?

 

Yes, you'll be leaving the secure area so you will need to re-clear security. Doesn't matter if you're flying to Paris, Papeete, or Pittsburgh...security will be involved. 

Edited August 15, 2023 by Zach1213

[TMLAalum]

38 minutes ago, Zach1213 said:

 

Yes, you'll be leaving the secure area so you will need to re-clear security. Doesn't matter if you're flying to Paris, Papeete, or Pittsburgh...security will be involved. 

No need to go thru security to go to hotel, correct? Only to return to Terminal 8?

[FlyerTalker]

4 minutes ago, TMLAalum said:

No need to go thru security to go to hotel, correct? Only to return to Terminal 8?

 

Hotel is landside.

 

 

[Zach1213]

5 minutes ago, TMLAalum said:

No need to go thru security to go to hotel, correct? Only to return to Terminal 8?

Nope, no security for the hotel

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In addition to what others have said I wouldn't follow the path into Terminal 5. If you go down the elevators from the AirTrain to the ground level you can walk into the parking garage slightly and then across the parking in front of the TWA Hotel and into the front door. It's far quicker than going into Terminal 5 and then having to loop back and around.