Niranta's rooms inside Terminal 2 are the place to sleep at Mumbai airport: its airside rooms need no Indian visa if you're flying on internationally, and its landside rooms suit anyone with a visa. The international lounges let you in up to 4 hours before your flight, and all have showers.
Can you sleep at Mumbai airport during a layover?
Yes. Niranta rents rooms inside Mumbai airport's Terminal 2 by the hour or overnight. Its airside rooms, next to the duty-free food court, are for passengers changing between international flights and need no Indian visa; book them on Niranta's own website. With a visa, its landside rooms below the arrivals hall and the sleeping pods in the Aviserv lounge in arrivals are open to you too. Prices aren't published.
Hotels in and next to the terminals
Of the places to sleep at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (BOM), only Niranta’s airside rooms are in the transit area, so they’re the ones to use if you’re changing between international flights without an Indian visa. Everything else is after immigration.
| Hotel | Where | Airside or landside | How you get there |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niranta airside rooms | Terminal 2, next to the duty-free food court | Airside: no Indian visa, for international to international connections | Stay in the transit area; book ahead on nirantahotels.com |
| Niranta landside rooms | Terminal 2, below the arrivals hall | Landside: after immigration, with a visa | From the arrivals hall, after customs |
| Aviserv lounge sleeping pods | Terminal 2 arrivals, Level 2 west, near Arrival Gate A | In the arrivals hall: plan on needing a visa | From the arrivals hall |
Niranta, the airport’s transit hotel, has 144 rooms in three properties, sold by the hour or overnight. Every guest needs a ticket for a flight arriving at or leaving from Terminal 2, and visitors aren’t allowed in the rooms. The airside rooms can be booked only on Niranta’s own website; the landside ones also on AdaniOne, the airport’s booking site. Prices aren’t published.
Hotels outside the airport are landside, so you need a visa and a taxi to reach them.
Day rooms
Niranta’s rooms double as day rooms: they’re sold by the hour as well as overnight, with check-in at any time of day for the landside rooms. Niranta doesn’t publish prices or a minimum stay, so check them on nirantahotels.com when you book. For a few hours without a room, the Aviserv lounge in arrivals has sleeping pods, with entry for up to 3 hours.
Lounges you can pay for
| Lounge | Terminal | Hours | Entry |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adani Lounge Loyalty | Terminal 2 international departures, Level 4 east | 24 hours | Up to 4 hours before departure |
| Adani Lounge Loyalty (first and premium business) | Terminal 2 international departures, Level 4 west and Level 3 west | 24 hours | Up to 4 hours before departure |
| Aviserv Lounge West, with sleeping pods | Terminal 2 arrivals, Level 2 west | 24 hours | Up to 3 hours |
| Aviserv Lounge East | Terminal 2 arrivals, Level 2 east, near Arrival Gate C | 24 hours | Up to 3 hours |
The departure lounges are past immigration and security, and all three have showers. Book any of them on AdaniOne; the airport doesn’t publish walk-in prices. Its website names Priority Pass and other lounge-card schemes only for a domestic lounge in Terminal 1, so check your card’s lounge list before you rely on it here.
Showers
All three international departure lounges in Terminal 2 list showers, and the airport lists no shower you can pay for on its own, so a lounge visit is the way to one.
Fast Track
No paid fast-track lane is advertised for foreign passports at immigration, on arrival or departure. Allow 90 minutes from landing to the Metro, and come back 90 minutes before your flight.
Left luggage
One counter, in Terminal 2 on Level 1, east side, at the P4 ground transport area. It’s after customs, so it suits travellers with a visa leaving their bags for a trip into town, not passengers staying in the transit area. It keeps bags for up to three months. Its prices and hours aren’t published: call +91 96190 20490 to check.
Connections, money and Wi-Fi
- Wi-Fi. Free: choose #MumbaiAirportWiFi and enter your mobile number, foreign numbers included, and the login code comes by text. With no roaming or SIM, take your passport to an information desk or Wi-Fi kiosk for a code: in arrivals there’s one by belt 8, and airside ones in the international transit area and near gates 48, 67 and 74.
- SIM cards and eSIMs. Airtel sells SIM cards on Level 2 of Terminal 2 arrivals. An eSIM set up before you fly saves the queue.
- Money. Ebix Cash changes money in Terminal 2 arrivals, after customs and at the kerb by Gate B; in departures, at check-in on Level 4; and after immigration, near gate 69.
- Between terminals. Some domestic flights leave from Terminal 1. A free airport coach links the two, from Level 1 (P4) at Terminal 2, and Metro Line 3 stops at both.
- A connection within India means passing immigration and customs at Terminal 2 first, so you need a visa: visa and transit rules.
- Coming back in. Guards at the terminal door check your ticket or boarding pass and your ID, and the airport’s advice is to arrive 4 hours before an international flight, so don’t plan on resting inside long before that.