How it works
A layover, in four acts.
You land somewhere you may never have been, with a clock running and a passport that decides where you can go. This is what happens next.
Watch the filmA real layover, start to finish, on InstagramAct one · Touchdown
Tell us where you are, and how long you have.
Your arrival and departure, your airport, your passport and your budget. One leg or a whole journey of them. That is all Interlüde needs to start writing your plan.
- Arrive
- 06:15
- Depart
- 15:15
- Passport
- Yours
- Budget
- Your call
Act two · The border
Before you take a step, you know if you can leave.
Transit and visa guidance for 199 passports, checked against the airport you are standing in. If the answer is yes, the city opens up. If it is no, your plan stays airside and makes the most of it. If it cannot be sure, it tells you plainly and shows you where to check, because a wrong yes is worse than no answer at all.
8:20 left
Act three · The city
Hours that fit you, not a guidebook.
Outings sized to your window and your budget, with the weather and the travel time on every one. A guide to each of 151 airports for everything in between: getting into town, eating well airside, showers, rest and support. Bags too heavy? Find luggage storage. Curious what is on tonight? The city's events are there too.
- Abra and the spice soukFits, back 10:2535 min there · 2h there · 35 min back
- Karak chai in Al SeefFits, back 10:0555 min there · 1h there · 55 min back
- Desert dunes at sunsetDoes not fit, back 13:351h 10m there · 4h there · 1h 10m back
If a travel time is not known, the outing is shown as an idea and never timed.
Company, if you want it
Find your people for the next few hours.
Interlüde quietly matches you with travellers whose window, languages and interests overlap with yours, then leaves the first move to you. Chat before you meet, start a group around an outing and explore the city together. Some of the best stories begin with a stranger at the next gate.
Looking for someone in particular? Filter by age, gender, profession, language or other parents travelling with kids.
Try it: see who you'd meet- Match
- Same window, shared interests
- Chat
- Say hello before you meet
- Groups
- Go out together, come back together
3:55 left
Act four · The way back
Built backwards from boarding.
Every plan starts from your departure and works back: immigration, the trip to the airport, security, the walk to the gate. A live countdown runs at every stop and the route back is one tap away. The reminders screen shows your head-back time and asks you to set a phone alarm for it. Too tight to leave? The terminal becomes the plan, matched to the minutes you have.
- 11:20Head backYou are told this time, and to set an alarm
- 12:15Back at the airportThree hours before departure
- 15:15DepartureThe time you entered
55 minutes for the trip back from Al Seef, the same as the trip there. If it cannot work the time out, it says so and tells you when to be back instead.
Epilogue · Boarding
Then it becomes a story.
Your Wrapped gathers the hours into a recap: the city, the stops, the time you had and the kind of traveller you were today. Keep it, share it or turn it into a keepsake.
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